Our folks live in a small village in Millbank, Ontario on a small farm right in the town. In January 2019, our beautiful mom passed away suddenly. Our father was as you can imagine quite lonely without our mom. They did everything together. We each have families and careers and suddenly we were going to the farm every week checking on dad. Then Covid came, we were in charge of more responsibility
, buildings to maintain, our father and our own worlds. To say it was an eye opener is mild. Two sisters in charge of two properties, taking care of our dad and our own worlds during Covid. We would take video to record just what was on our plates and how we are going to deal with this. We would try to make our dad laugh to cheer him up. This became the beginning of the Kim and Penny show. That’s a whole other topic. As we continued to spend time at the farm and with dad we starting cleaning up around and began building raised beds, tilling old ones, making new ones, planting vegetables and some flowers. We soon realized we loved it, our dad loved us being there more but more importantly the experience we had reconnecting through this sad and lonely time with growing vegetables and flowers. It is unbelievable to grow something and sell it and see how many people it affects. Pure happiness but a flower. That was a huge eureka moment. A new journey has started. Through hard work, blood, sweat and tears, we are growing flowers to sell to local florists, grocery stores and markets as well as the public.
