About

One could say that all this started when I was about five years old and decided I wanted to be a florist.
While that's not exactly what I am now that I'm starting this crazy enterprise in my sixteenth year of age, I've inevitably gone back to that childhood dream of flowers, and Allegretto has come into being.

Allegretto Flower Farm got its technical start back in January 2016 when I learned that people have fairly recently started growing beautiful flowers on a smaller scale and doing magnificent things with those flowers.
And so I figured giving farmer-floristry a try would be the perfect compromise between my earliest childhood dream and my slightly later childhood dream (which started when I was about ten and has continued to this day) of wanting to farm.
And so the first year I badly tended to two poorly planned, poorly constructed, and terribly weeded rows of late-planted flowers. It didn't necessarily go as well as I would have liked, but I managed to scrape together enough to cover my costs (and then some) and get myself hooked on the whole flowery affair.

This year I've doubled my growing area, gotten in touch with some enthusiastic florists who'll buy from me, and equipped myself with a wealth of knowledge of what to do (from books and suchlike) and what not to do (from personal experience). I've also officially named this business, calling it Allegretto Flower Farm.

If you didn't know, the word allegretto is a musical term. It directs a musician to play the music "in a lively and brisk manner." I think lively and brisk is a good description of flowers and their brief, ephemeral existence, and myself, for that matter.
I've had many years of working with both flowers and music, and I think they are more similar than one would first think.
Both have colors that can be combined in thousands of different ways, and can evoke different emotions.
Neither lasts forever--neither a flower or a note can last very long. And every bouquet, every performance is different, even if you use the same flowers or notes you can never exactly replicate a bouquet or performance.
Both are structured and ordered in an perfect, inexplicable way that is ridiculously beautiful, and which is indicative of a Creator who was very intentional in His ordering of such things.

And I want to share that ridiculous, lively, heart-wrenching beauty with as many people as possible, and so that's what I'm going to do.
It's going to mean a lot of hard work, a lot of risk, a lot of hoping that everything doesn't die. I'm probably going to need some help.
But I love flowers, and I'm going to do my best to grow them and give them to everyone I can.