Together we grow herbal medicinals, producing custom fresh and dried herbs and tea blends. We grow flowers for CSA, u-pick and custom arrangements. Our vision is a farm that produces the highest quality of sustainably grown herbs and flowers, cares for the soil and cultivates health, creativity, honesty and kindness. We aim for the farm to hold space for others to join us in pursuing these values together. Welcome to the Golden Hour.
About the Farm
Golden Hour Farm is a husband-wife collaborative born of a love for health, beauty and the sacred interdependence of all that is. We grow herbal medicinals and cut flowers.
We are named for the times each day when the sun is low and fading through flecks of dust on the horizon, reducing sharp shadows to pinks and oranges and soft light. Before we had a farm with a name we had other jobs. The only time we had for farming was in the evenings, the golden hour. We grew our food, our medicine and our creativity.
Our farm is nestled just outside Grand Ledge on Anishinaabeg land. We use natural farming practices, without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. We strive toward carbon sequestering practices that keep our soils healthy and biologically active. That's part of why we love growing herbs and perennial flowers! We like to hear the birds sing, chat while working and listen to our heart’s rhythm. So we prefer the mix of hand and simple mechanical tools small farming allows. We use natural farming techniques that pull from many traditions, dabbling in no-till and perennial farm cultures while maintaining that sometimes you just need a rotovator to prep an area for elderberry cuttings. Our goals are to get away from using unnecessary mechanization as we can and to continue to expand our knowledge of sustainable practices that can work for both ecological equanimity and economic sustainability on the farm and the world.
We value ~ creativity + beauty | honesty + kindness | tea
Scott’s childhood memories of gardening include throwing beans and tomatoes at his brothers to see what might stick. He spent every available moment outside (sometimes by request of Mom). He planted orange seeds in paper cups and collected monarch caterpillars on every long family road trip, developing a keen eye for spotting highway-side milkweed.
His passion for connecting himself and others to healing plants and places budded at Green Wagon Farm where he designed their first herb meditation labyrinth in 2011. His growing desire to see people and all sorts of creaturely communities healed by the places we live led him to tie farming, eco spirituality and herbalism together to form Golden Hour Farm in 2016. He has studied with herbalists in Belize and with farmers in Nepal and Michigan. In 2020, Scott furthered his herbal studies in a season long herbal intensive with Jim McDonald of White Lake, MI.
Scott’s spirit herb is nettle – prolific, nutritive, surprising and feisty.
Christian grew up in an old brick farmhouse chasing chickens and making forts near Rochester, MI. She is an LMSW clinical therapist trained at the University of Denver. She is busy, working full-time as a therapist during the school year and flower maven on the farm in the summer. Her deep passions are for connecting with people and for creating beauty all around her. She is a force for healing - holding space for trust, goodness and gentleness in every hour. She fell in love with farming, herbs and flower magic when falling in love with Scott. She loves gently introducing others to our herbal kin through home use, teas and floral arrangements.
Christian’s spirit herb is chamomile – sanguine, occasionally bitter, calming and abundant.
Audra grew up on 14 acres in Byron Center, MI. She learned her love of plants and the wild from her Pa. She is widely skilled - from slinging teas, to yoga instruction, to practices of compassion and loving kindness. No depth of knowledge or experience she pursues eludes her. Her kindness, curiosity, gentle fierceness and patient attention to detail keep others sane when things get busy on the farm. She loves experimenting in the kitchen, camping with her hubster, Mark and snuggling up to a good book with her pups.