Agriculture is in me. I grew up down the road from my great grandpa's original farmstead. My dad and uncle still dairy and crop farm there. Growing up I spent almost everyday there and the days I wasn't there I wanted to be. I even got on and off the bus there. By 12 I would drive the four-wheeler from my house to "The Farm" every morning, frozen hair and everything in the winter. I made keeping the farm in our family a goal from early on in life - simple I thought. However as I got older I realized its a lot more complicated then that. I was an only child so I didn't have siblings wishes to consider but my uncle did have two kids that had as much right to the farm. Could I farm with my dad and uncle? Most likely not. My dad and my uncle have different ideas and directions for the farm than I would. Too many chiefs in the teepee and I didn't want to wait until I was 55 for my chance to make a few decisions. So after college I stepped away and pursued a few avenues in agriculture that didn't involve my family farm. Some how it felt wrong and I felt lacking - like I was building up other people family farms but snuffing out the hopes of my own. In some ways I think it is true what they say that distance makes the heart grow fonder (the distance of 7 years being fairly uninvolved in the farm) and in other ways I think as I become less green in the ways of the world I appreciate my dad and uncles perspective a little more and they see me as a little less of a wild eyed kid with big dreams. True Blue Flower Co. is my opportunity to ease back into being a part of my family farm (it will always be "The Farm" to me) in a way that allows me to have my own little niche. Maybe even a way for a daughter to show her father and uncle that having someone around who likes computers and grant writing isn't such a bad thing and a way for an uncle and a father to show a daughter that pinching pennies and fix it yourself can get you places too.