RADICALLY ordinary HOSPITALITY
For those who long for a return to a slower, more intentional life, we’ve purpose-built our farm as a respite for old-fashioned community on the outskirts of the big city. We invite you to sink your hands into the soil, reconnect with friends, and take home a bit of beauty to brighten your day.
Here you’ll find flowers, lavender, and pumpkins grown under California sunshine using natural practices and a whole lot of gumption. But more importantly, you’ll find a welcoming hug, an unrushed cup of coffee, and time for long conversations with people who remember your name.
During the growing season (typically April through October, depending on Mother Nature’s temperament), we open to the public on select days for flower markets, events, and you-picks. Our seasonal crops and farm-made goods will bring a smile to your face and joy to your kitchen counter.
P.S. There are bugs here.
This is the “before” picture on a day it almost burned down. Looks much better now.
Hi, it’s nice to meet you!
We’re Scott & Christine.
A.K.A the dirty hands behind Killdeer Farms, a plucky little flower farm crankin’ out gorgeous, happy blooms in West Sacramento. (This is Christine, btw. I’m in charge of words and garden, and Farmer Scott is in charge of fixing the irrigation problems I create.)
For years we’ve dreamed of doing something big and crazy, like moving to Thailand or adopting five kids. But leaps like that are scary, and we’re just a regular couple with 9-5 jobs and no super powers. And then one day we drove by this old, sad, property down the road from our house. It had been abandoned for 20 years and made our town look shabby.
We thought maybe we could turn it around, so we threw caution and our piggy bank to the wind and are now on a crusade to rehab five dead acres and spiffy-up our community through flower farming and mutual support for other local businesses.
Since 2018, we’ve been hard at work with new trees, lots of compost, and 30 gallons of barn paint. All manner of critters and creatures call our farm home, too, and our favorite are the killdeer.
The little sandpipers have a tough name, we know. But their squawking provides our morning wake-up call, and we have an attachment to them now that runs deep. Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) build their nests in bare dirt, exposed to the world and vulnerable to all manner of risk and scrutiny. Their success rate is pretty low, so they have to work all season long just to raise a few survivors.
That’s us, too.
Our entire operation is on display on the side of a highway where the whole wide world can watch us toil and panic and fail and maybe, just maybe, succeed a little bit. Once the killdeer started nesting in the flowers, we knew it was kismet. We dove headlong into flower farming, and Killdeer Farms was born.
