Wild Heart Farm

Wild Heart Farm At Wild Heart Farm we nourish body and spirit by connecting people with the beauty and wisdom of nature.

We create artful floral designs, natural garden spaces, and well-being experiences inspired by nature’s beauty and resilience. Kate Watters is a farmer, floral designer, writer and artist. She has led a colorful, plant-centered life and now makes her livelihood from Wild Heart Farm, a one-acre oasis in Rimrock, next to Beaver Creek. She grows unique flowers, medicinal herbs, pollinator and fairy h

abitat and hosts plant gatherings. Kate is passionate about sharing the magic, wisdom and healing powers of the plant realm with people when they need it the most. She creates herbal tinctures and flower essence blends infused with high quality fresh herbs grown on the farm. When the world stuns her with beauty, sorrow or joy she turns to poetry. Kate combines her love for writing and flower arranging by offering seasonal weekly poetry bouquets subscriptions that are songs to the seasonal changes of place. She loves foraging in nature and collecting things, which has evolved into dried wreath and collage art creations when the garden is sleeping. Dr. Michael Knapp is a Naturopathic Physician at Root Natural Health in Flagstaff. He attended National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon and completed a one year teaching and clinical residency at the university. Dr. Knapp’s practice has an emphasis in digestive problems. He also treats stress, hormonal and immune system complaints that are often linked with gut-brain-microbiome imbalance. Other common acute and chronic complaints include: cold/cough/flu, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Hashimoto and autoimmune diseases, headaches, depression, anxiety, sleep problems. He works with children over 1 year of age with digestive, allergy and behavior/attention problems and is committed to helping children grow to be healthy adults. After receiving his BS in Biology from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, he worked as a certified nursing assistant in a medical/surgical unit to continue preparation for medical school. Dissatisfaction with the hospital setting and treatment philosophy led him to question his path to become a physician. His own life-long digestive problems worsened and stress mounted while facing the reality of working in the current disease management system. In expressing these concerns to his acupuncturist, he was introduced to the approach he’d been searching for, Naturopathic Medicine. He declined his acceptance to a local medical school and pursued training as a doctor that embraces the future of medicine while cultivating roots in tradition. Together we are exploring our passions for beauty, plants, health and nature in this place.

When people find out I have a farm, the first question is always: what do you grow? It throws me every time. The list is...
09/03/2026

When people find out I have a farm, the first question is always: what do you grow? It throws me every time. The list is too long, and then I second-guess myself — what do I grow? (I’m wildly ADHD, so bear with me.) 🌾
I grow what I love.
Flowers — the strange and wondrous ones you’ll never find in a supermarket, especially natives. Medicine — plants are my allies and my ancestors were witches. Herbal tea, because drinking the nutrients in the land fuels me and I want to share it. Grasses and grains, ancient and unglamorous, the quiet backbone of the land. Habitat — usually for monarchs, though this year it’s queen butterflies who’ve claimed the milkweed — plus a whole cast of pollinators, birds, wayward peacocks, and squirrels.
I’m growing kids with land literacy — who can collect their own seeds, turn whatever’s ripe that week into a snack, and know that lacewings eat the bad bugs so we don’t have to spray.
I grow trees. I tend a slowly repairing forest of hackberry, ash, mulberry, vitex, and a smattering of fruit trees.
I grow wonder. I grow beauty.
You won’t find me at farmers markets — this isn’t a stand-you-can-visit-anywhere kind of farm. You have to come here to see it. There’s a whole community growing up around this place, and you’re invited in — Women’s Garden Guild on Wednesday mornings, our women’s circles, pop-ups, Farm School — or from a distance as a newsletter subscriber or donor.
Thanks for being part of it.

08/19/2026

Drop in for Wild Wednesdays 🌻 a weekly women’s garden guild on the farm.
We design permaculture guilds, practice desert-adapted regenerative gardening, and help cultivate the Mother Garden — a space of rest, remembrance, and regeneration.
As Robin Wall Kimmerer writes in The Serviceberry: “the currency in a gift economy is relationship, expressed as gratitude, interdependence, and the ongoing cycles of reciprocity.” That’s what this gathering is — tea, dirt under our nails, and each other.
Wednesdays 8:30–11:30am
At Wild Heart Farm in Rimrock
Offered freely
Register
https://wildheartfarmaz.com/events/2026/wild-women-garden-guild-3222s

07/27/2026

It’s National Moth Week 🌙
A good time to get curious at night

Last week our summer camp found a crime scene: datura plants chewed down to twigs, and one caterpillar pecked open on a rock nearby — clearly abandoned mid-meal.
The seven-year-old detectives got to work. Why would a bird start eating a caterpillar and just... stop?
Turns out sacred datura is toxic — laced with alkaloids in every leaf. The tomato hornworms that feed on it don’t just tolerate that poison, they store it, becoming toxic themselves. Most predators learn fast and leave them alone. (Yes, we watched the poops. They’re impressive.)
In days, these caterpillars go from finger-sized to enormous — then disappear into the soil and re-emerge as sphinx moths.
And here’s where it gets good: datura only blooms at dusk, opening its white trumpet flowers for a single night. That’s the exact window sphinx moths start flying, thirsty for nectar. They hover, drinking, brushing pollen from flower to flower with fuzzy bodies built for exactly this — and without them, the plant doesn’t set seed.
Caterpillar and flower. Poison and protection. Moth and moon. None of it works without all of it.
So much of this happens after dark, while we’re inside with the porch light on. This Moth Week, consider turning it off. Let the night shift clock in — the moths, the bats, the things we never see doing the quiet work of keeping this whole place alive.

🎥 caterpillar → flower → moth → mural by Karen Cordasco
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07/22/2026

“We must risk delight.” — Jack Gilbert

What a tough time to love this world — and what a good reason to gather in joy anyway.

As I create wedding flowers it strikes me as strange that we save the juicy, extravagant flower bouquet for one day — as if that kind of beauty needs a reason as big as marriage to earn its place. Why wait? Let’s make one now, to fill ourselves up so we have more heart to give the world.

I got the lisianthus.

Join Kelly and me this Sunday July 26 to read poetry make flower bouquets and eat cake.

Link in bio to register

https://wildheartfarmaz.com/events/risking-delight-bouquet

06/20/2026

To celebrate the fathers who show up, and the one who never misses a day: the sun, on time every time, filling the earth with life force energy.

Whether you come with your father, your children, your family, your friends, or simply YOU, the medicine wheel is at peak bloom to stir old memories and help make new ones. 🌻

Father’s Day Open Farm Event
Sunday, June 21 · 9am–12pm
Farm walk · pollinator ID · live music jam circle · nursery + apothecary shop open
Free, all ages welcome — link in bio

06/15/2026

🌿 Wild Heart Farm Camp is back for summer 2026.
Four Thursday mornings on the farm — digging, creating, singing, hearing and making stories, and tasting something straight from the earth.

For children ages 4–12 and families w/younger siblings.

June 18 · July 2 · July 16 · July 30
Rimrock, Arizona · 9–11am
Drop-in or join us for the full series. Scholarship spots available for Rimrock local families. 🌱
👉 Link in bio to register. Spots are limited and we’d love to have you out here.

How is this?Circle keepers: Kelly & Kate of Wild Heart Farm invite you:New Moon CircleNew Moon in Gemini  ·  Sunday, Jun...
06/11/2026

How is this?
Circle keepers: Kelly & Kate of Wild Heart Farm invite you:
New Moon Circle
New Moon in Gemini  ·  Sunday, June 14  ·  6:30 pm

The new moon in Gemini is an open door.
Step through with curiosity.
Step through in a circle of women.
As we approach the summer solstice living long, full days
we will gather to find balance and breathe together.
We will gather together beneath the majestic tree canopy along Beaver Creek.

Join us:
Song  ·  Story  ·  Somatic healing practices
Poetry  ·  Cooling tea  · Company of women
The riparian space is alive — night creatures, pollinators,
the sound of Beaver Creek.

All sisters welcome  ·  Children welcome
Two farm dogs in attendance — please leave dog friends at home

DM to RSVP and get directions

05/09/2026

We’re opening the garden gate.
This Sunday, May 10 · 9:30–11:30am · Wild Heart Farm

Come spend Mother’s Day morning in the Mother Garden — a healing space we’re building in honor of all the mothers, those we’ve loved and lost, those we are becoming.

It’s free. It’s open. Bring your mom, your daughter, your best friend, or just yourself.
We’ll have fresh flower bouquets, apothecary gifts from the farm, and dahlia tubers to take home and grow. Come wander, rest, and let the flowers do what they do best.

Wild Heart Farm · Rimrock, AZ · Verde Valley Link in bio for directions + details.

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05/07/2026

My car smells like heaven right now 🌸

These buckets of fresh-cut blooms are headed to a local florist — grown right here, pesticide-free, and picked at their peak. No 10,000-mile journey, no fumigation, no mystery.

The truth is, most flowers sold in the U.S. travel farther than your last vacation — and the environmental and human cost is something most of us don’t see. But you can change that with one local purchase.

Ask your florist where their flowers come from. Seek out a local grower. Support the hands in the soil near you.

Find local flower farms at localflowers.org, slowflowers.com

Dear friends, Mother’s Day is approaching and I’ve dreamed up many thoughtful and heartfelt ways to honor moms.Moms are ...
05/02/2026

Dear friends, Mother’s Day is approaching and I’ve dreamed up many thoughtful and heartfelt ways to honor moms.
Moms are badasses
Moms do it all
Moms feed us, read to us, hold us and scold us.
Take us for ice cream and tuck us in at night so we can dream.
Flowers and gardens are the best way to celebrate everything it takes — the heart and soul, the grit, the stamina, the lack of control the summons of love, again and again, to birth and raise a human.

I want to mother the mothers!
So I’ve dreamed up creative gift ideas—fresh flowers, dahlia tubers and an immersive garden gathering designed to relax and create, celebrate, grieve, rest and tend to the mother’s spirit.

The peonies are showing up just in time with their fragrant, voluptuous blossoming.

Link to the Mother’s Day offerings

https://wildheartfarmaz.com/mothers-day

Let me help you send and express with flower love.
xoxo

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Rimrock, AZ

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