BeeWorthy Farms

The native bees are out and about at the farm. Often sleeping on flowers for the night making our early morning harvests an extra treat!

Did you know that San Diego has THE MOST native bee diversity in the continental United States? At BeeWorthy, these photos are just a handful of the over 650 native bee species here!

Thank you for the photos Ambrose Estrella

Earth Day. A beautiful day to recognize the life, death, rebirth cycles that are as much a part of nature as they are in our own lives.

In the garden, these ranunculus are long past ready to be dug up, a task I usually plan for after Mother’s Day. But this year has shaken things up. For the past month since the last ranunculus bloom was harvested, the farm has been in a bit of a holding pattern.

So many blooms leaving the farm in packed buckets, bouquets arriving in my friend’s shops to go home with you, smiling faces appreciating the serenity of the land. Loads of summer blooms and fall Lisianthus getting nestled into the soil. So full, yet, so still.

This usual spring bonanza has just been landing differently here. I suppose it is the world events and the broader reawakening of so many souls. Souls with deep connection to Mother Earth seeing clearly what reality we are in versus the one we’ve been illusioned to think we to live in. What reality will we give our one precious life to?

In this pause between the moments of the last bloom and the next, we are gifted with a time to compost, store, and renourish. We are gifted with a moment of reflection if we choose to take it. A moment to reconnect with our why and root back into Mother Earth. A moment to align with those in our community ready to lay down our comfortable discontent and use our actions to speak louder than this false perception of hopelessness.

On this Earth Day, take a moment to see how strong and resilient you are when you ground down into Mother Earth. And take a moment to hear her cries for help. We can hold both.

Grow plants, eat with care and consciousness, live lightly, and live with joy. Feed the parts of you that know how to be rooted, kind, and whole.

Are you looking to deepen your connection to your craft, while in a nurturing and supportive space? Do you want to be outdoors, with the farm as your art space? Do you want to teach your craft to our Bloom Club community?

We are looking for our 2026 artist-in-residents and want to meet YOU and learn about your craft.

Join us for a casual day on the farm to learn more about the program. Bring your art supplies or use our dried flowers.

No registration required. Attendance limited to artists.

Happy Spring Equinox! I swear spring is here- or at least will come back, errrr, I promise it’s not summer yet. At least that’s what I’ve telling all my cool season flowers!

BeeWorthy has been buzzing with activity! Launching the San Diego Flower Collective. Building out the team (Dusty is in love). Saying hi to remembered favorites (I’m looking at your snapdragons) and meeting new spring blooms. Bringing our bouquets back to and Fox Point Farms.

What are we most stoked on?? Welcoming people back to the garden. Bloom Club starts this Sunday and the container is only open for 1 more week. Join us on the farm for weekly u-picks, community, and member-only workshops. We won’t open up again until May, so join now to get the best of our spring blooms.

Link in bio to register!

May you meet spring as it appears, ready to launch forth all your budding ideas, hopes and dreams. May you be well resourced to nurture them into fruition.

Spring blessings,
Cat

A moment in the flowers, when a friend joined and said “oh hey, did you hear about all the butterflies?”

The story goes folks were enjoying a hot sunny day on the beach when all of sudden they were inundated with butterflies!! And soon after, a cold breeze swept through knocking over all the umbrellas.

What bravery and instinct does it take to be swept out to sea and trust to float along the winds to bring you back on your path?

Sometimes we don’t always logically know where we are going. One moment things feel daunting and scary while the next feels liberating, empowering and beyond connected.

*sigh*

Just as it should be, the ebbs and the flows. And for now, I’ll just pause on that thinking thing. Just for a moment. And just be.

Reminder:

When you buy flowers from your local farm this year, you are not adopting the bucket.

🪣 please return the buckets.

Farming margins are thin.
Infrastructure matters.

The innocent
“I will bring this back next week”
Has statistically never happened.

Shoutout to all the homies who have silently returned buckets to the picnic tables over the seasons. I see you! Thank you!

Before I left town, I took it all in.

3 weeks away from the gardens.

I’ve taken a week away from farming here and there over the past decade of farming, but nothing like this.

10 years of farming. 520 weeks of harvest. Harvesting every week except a handful. The gardens keep growing. Even now when I planned to not have the gardens wake up for another two weeks. That’s farming.

In October I planed a trip to go paragliding in Colombia, and then I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go to D.C. so I merged the two trips with a few days in Florida visiting family.

Now, I’m waiting at the airport ahead of my time in South America and thinking of the farm. Checking the weather, knowing that the recent heavy rain and wind certainly left its mark. But trusting that our incredible team back on the land are flexing their farming grit muscle. I’m beyond grateful.

This is all very fitting for this new moon eclipse. Me getting to let go of my itch to tend to all the things until…It. Is. Just. So. Me stepping into a relaxed sense of my responsibilities. My team getting the room to spread their wings, grow, learn, and shine.

So I’m signing off for the next two weeks to actually let myself recalibrate.

I am loving writing though, so be sure to sign up for our newsletter if you wanna hear from me in the meantime.

And somehow I’ll figure out how to get the word out about our March events! We have our 1st Herbal Table starting the first Saturday in March. And then first day of Bloom Club is the Spring Equinox! I’ll open signups the week before. Our email newsletter will get the news first ;).

See you when I return!
Abrazos y Besos,
Cat