The Story Behind Growing Good Farm
I always loved flowers and gardens, but I seemed to kill everything I put in the ground. When I saw my younger sister Carley growing jalapenos in her college apartment, I complained that I would never be able to grow anything like she could. Carley, in her trademark spicy yet compassionate way, told me to stop complaining and just learn how. I stopped thinking of growing plants as a natural talent, and instead spent my energy learning how to garden.
The year of my first successful vegetable garden, my sister’s bone cancer returned. I watered her sunflowers and squash as she lay in the hospital, paralyzed from the cancer in her spine. After the first frosts of fall, all the plants were gone, and so was my sister.
My sister, faced with death at age 27, believed to her end that “there is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for” (JRR Tolkein). Her love of life let her meet death as an equal, and victorious in her fight against cancer, she departed this life.
In her short 27 years, she had in abundance what too many people spend long lives without—love. As I struggled to shape my life in her absence, a personal purpose grew up through the bitter stabs of grief: I want to use my passion for growing plants to bring more love to people’s lives.
And so Growing Good Farm began.
With the incredible support of my husband and our four kids, the flower farm began in a Colorado Springs community garden plot in 2025. Since we moved to five acres in Falcon, we hope the 2026 season will bring new flowers, vegetable sales, and the chance to connect my customers with on farm experiences.
I farm for people, animals, and soil. A deep interest in ecological farming, microbial soil health, and pollinator support means that you know your flowers and vegetables are bringing healing to the land they grow on, and don’t bring any nasty chemicals into your home or body.
I also believe that flowers have good work to do in our community. Our Flowers for Good Initiative lets my customers donate any amount, any time, to get flowers to our donation partners. In 2025, you donated over $1000 to get our pristine, long lasting flowers to nursing home residents and Salvation Army clients. In 2026, I hope to make this fund equal 10% of my annual gross revenue, and to connect with even more partners. Beauty matters, ever so much more when life is hard, a lesson I know well.
Growing Good Farm is one of the countless ways that Carley’s drop of a life continues to ripple ever outward. This little farm, and any good it grows, my kids, my husband, and I lovingly offer to her memory.
She is always with us among the flowers.
-Meredith
Farmer, Owner Growing Good Farm
Winter 2026