About Us

The concept of Blue Moon Flower Farm has been growing with our family for many years.  A husband and wife team, we (Jimmy and Chelsie Lykens) were raised in Appalachia, surrounded and taught by people who knew both how to work the land to survive as well as to cultivate beauty.  Jimmy’s grandfather was a West Virginia coal miner supplementing his family’s groceries with as many vegetables as could be grown, and also nurturing what in any other part of the world very well could have been prize winning red and yellow roses.  His grandmother had learned to work the land by working with her grandfather on the old family homestead.  Chelsie’s family is tied to a long history of farming for both need and pleasure in the rolling hills of East Tennessee.  The land is one of the core themes that ties the Appalachian people together, and Chelsie and Jimmy both feel those ties, deeply. 

         When we moved to Nashville in 2011 to pursue careers in the music industry we packed those skills along with us and quickly found that the residents of Middle Tennessee love and appreciate locally grown and made goods.  The abundance of farmer’s markets, boutiques, and shops that carry said goods is an easy indicator of this.  In March of 2020, when life as we knew it came to a halt, we turned back to our Appalachian upbringing to ensure that we could provide security to our young family. For a while, this meant baking bread and sweets under the entity we had created called Sunny Side Bakeshop to sell at local markets and online- as often as possible incorporating homegrown herbs and floral ingredients such as sugared violas and rose petals. Over time, even though the baked goods were doing well, Chelsie began to notice that the strongest and most overwhelmingly positive feedback she would get online was from people admiring her flowers that she had grown, from seed, in her home garden.  Since then, we have found that the farming portion of that work brought the most fulfillment and best matched the pace of life suited to our growing family.        

       Knowing full well that the majority of flowers sold in the United States are imported, we seek to be part of the growing shift back towards locally grown, locally sourced, and locally sold flowers. We are proud to have expanded ourselves from our urban, raised garden beds in East Nashville to our quarter acre mini-homestead in Gallatin where we moved in 2020, and we are excited to be stepping into full scale flower farming in 2022.  Blue Moon Flower Farm distributes to floral designers, retail partners, markets, & subscribers. Look for more info on you-pick and other farm visit events soon!