Spreading Joy with flowers has always been my mission since day one of developing my flower business. What started out as a way to bring Joy to others, has in turn brought Joy to me after a painful loss. This is my story of the journey I’ve traveled to build Blooming Joy Flower Company.

In 2007, I graduated college and became a Registered Nurse. I spent the next 8 years working at a Nashville hospital in the Oncology Unit. I was largely inspired to work in Oncology because I had lost my dad to lung cancer in 2006. Seeing what he went through, I wanted to help others like him.

In 2015, I lost my mother, Joy, to breast cancer. We were as close as a Mother and daughter could be. We did everything together and without her, my world was rocked. After my profound loss, my husband, Robert, and I decided to make a big life change. We decided to move from suburbia to farm life. Neither of us had grown up in a farming lifestyle but we knew this was how we wanted to raise our kids. Fast forward to 2016, we bought a raw piece of land in Christiana, Tennessee to start our dream of growing big gardens and raising livestock. We had been growing small backyard vegetable gardens the 10 years prior but we wanted to do more. In order to build our house, we needed to live on our land because my husband was doing a lot of the finish work himself (while I cooked, homeschooled and kept the kids!) For nearly a year, the six of us lived in an RV beside our house that was being built. That was a journey, let me tell you!

 In 2017, we moved into our new house. That winter, a seed was planted in my heart that I needed to learn how to grow cut flowers so I could bring others Joy. My mother’s name was Joy so it was only fitting that I named my business after her, Blooming Joy Flower Company. I already had the knowledge of how to grow vegetables but growing cut flowers was totally new to me. I dove head first into learning the world of cut flowers and how to grow them.

In 2018, I spent my first summer as a cut flower grower. Zinnias, Cosmos, Sunflowers and Dahlias were my training wheels of getting my feet wet in the floral world. There is a lot to learn- how to grow, when to harvest, what to do after harvesting, floral designing and how to sell all the flowers! I loved it though and word started to spread about my fresh flowers!