About me.

Much of my childhood was spent planting annual blooms with my dad, picking peonies with my mom, or visiting my extended family who have roots as farmers in Iowa. My great grandmother Betty has a deep love for gardening. Throughout her lifetime she has grown expansive gardens on the family farm, started a gardening club in her local community, and has passed her gardening knowledge down from generation to generation. Her love for flowers continues on in me.

Over the past decade I have worked as a speech therapist in hospital and school based settings, but I have always dreamed of surrounding myself with flowers. Even when living on a small urban lot, I would tuck blooms into every corner and crevice of our tiny yard. In 2022 I enrolled in the Floret Workshop, an intensive six-week program geared towards growing flowers on a small scale. This got me searching for more land to expand my personal garden. In spring of 2023 my husband and I moved from our small Shorewood duplex to a 2-acre property in Fox Point. Here I had room to grow more flowers than I ever imagined. Shortly after we arrived, I turned our grassy lawn into numerous flower beds and shared handfuls of flowers with neighbors and friends. I received lovely hand written notes from people in my neighborhood and generous donations to continue sharing blooms from my garden. Those messages encouraged me to continue sharing locally grown and handpicked flowers with my community.

Eventually, the first few garden beds that I started on our lot blossomed into BREW CITY BLOOMS as you know it today. I hope to continue expanding the fields and sharing blooms locally year after year. I cannot wait to share it all with you!