In 2025, in the third year of our community farm and Free Farm Stand program, we distributed more than 700 bouquets of flowers to our rural, low-income community. Flowers are so overlooked when it comes to food pantries and other food-access programs - after all, we don’t need them to survive. But they make people happy, give us hope, and you could even say they’re a small act of resistance in an increasingly dark world. Plant-based farming is an act of optimism and also rebellion - whatever is