Moon Rose Gardens
My name is Yelena and I have been dreaming of having a small mixed farm with a designated flower cutting garden ever since I was a child picking flowers out of my grandmother’s cutting garden in Brittany, France. My Minimaman and I would collect flowers from her garden using a traditional flat willow basket and then walk home through a narrow cobblestone street back to the house to arrange them together. I’m inspired by travel, the beauty of nature and the changing seasons.
In 2007 my husband and I purchased a run down 2 acre farm near the Kettle River in Grand Forks, British Columbia. Together with our three children we began the slow process of improving our place, one project and renovation at a time into a small working farm.
Today, we grow sustainable specialty cut flowers using organic and no till methods to build and regenerate the sandy soil on our micro flower farm. We have three silly dwarf Nigerian goats Romulus, Remus and Lupin that eat our weeds and help clear the brush in the wild back property and sometimes we take them hiking. My goal is to improve this land and bring joy into peoples’ lives with beautiful seasonal flowers.