Planned Farm Income Project
The cut flower project at Shaggy Ink Farms is focused on sunflowers, trial varieties, pollinator value, local production lessons, and building honestly toward 2027 sales.
Shaggy Ink Farms
The garden pages keep the 2027 season build honest: planning, testing, preparing, and learning before claiming a finished farm system.
Current Status
These notes are here to show what is being built and what is still being learned. They are not product pages.
Cut flowers were chosen because they can fit a small farm, support pollinators, create useful content, and offer a future local income stream alongside strawberries and poultry without requiring the farm to pretend it is already in production.
The current focus is sunflowers, trial varieties, bed timing, irrigation needs, harvest windows, and learning what local production looks like in Anderson heat before making sales claims.
The goal is to work toward 2027 flower sales if the trials, labor, water, and growing systems support it. Bouquets, stems, or small seasonal releases come later only if the farm can do them honestly.
Flowers also help the farm document pollinator activity, seasonal planting choices, and low-cost beauty around the garden. The project gives people something real to follow while the farm learns.
Grow It Yourself
These links keep the Garden pages focused on what Shaggy Ink Farms is building while sending how-to guidance to the Learn section.
Growing Guide
How to grow sunflowers for cutting, bouquets, and farm stand bunches with good stems, clean blooms, and steady timing.
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Growing Guide
When to start seeds indoors vs. direct sow, what equipment actually matters, germination temperatures by crop, and how to harden off transplants for Northern California heat.
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Growing Guide
How to design a productive spring garden — bed placement, path width, irrigation before planting, and timing cool-season crops to avoid late heat.
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Field Notes
Dated notes from the farm that connect this Garden page to the real build as it happens.
Plan Your Version
Garden Paths
Garden
A plain overview of the garden, fruit, flower, orchard, herb, and soil-building work taking shape at Shaggy Ink Farms for the 2027 season.
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Garden
Strawberry field preparation at Shaggy Ink Farms, including irrigation planning, soil preparation, and the honest goal of working toward the 2027 season.
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Garden
The Shaggy Ink Farms family garden is for household food, local growing notes, and honest documentation of what works and fails in Anderson, California.
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Planning a garden at home? The Garden Planner and local growing guides are the practical tools side of this work.