Wild Handful Farm - Gig Harbor, WA

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Karen Davis grew up spending her summers at her grandparents’ homestead in Canada surrounded by gardens, berry patches, and her grandfather’s bees. Being outside feeling wild and free and picking flowers and vegetables with her grandmother made an indelible mark on Karen’s spirit that followed her for the rest of her life. Karen’s husband Jason is in the military and they have lived all over the world from Germany to South Korea to several states in America before finally landing in Gig Harbor five years ago. Along the way, Karen cultivated her passion for gardening and learned how to grow in different climates. Happily and permanently settled in Gig Harbor, Karen decided to try her hand at growing a business and opened Wild Handful Farm in the spring of 2020.

Named as a tribute to Jason and Karen’s five children, Wild Handful Farm is a micro flower farm, farm stand, and flower subscription service that offers fresh cut flowers and beautifully crafted floral arrangements that are at the same time both whimsical and elegant. Karen designs each arrangement with specialty, seasonal blooms grown and gathered by her on her small farm. Taking great care with the environment and sustainability of her florals, Karen cultivates all her plants from the soil up, free from chemicals and preservatives. Sign up for the Wild Handful Farm seasonal flower subscriptions to pick up a fresh cut bouquet every week for four weeks or stop by the farm stand to peruse Karen’s handpicked in-season goods like hand-packaged seeds and bulbs, dried posies, fresh eggs from her farm, Wild Handful Farm mugs and tote bags, cacao from local Retreat Drinks, and other products from local Gig Harbor businesses.

Karen finds great joy in connecting with her neighbors by hosting do-it-yourself flower bars and giveaways at her farm stand. During the spring, Karen donates an extra bouquet to her flower subscribers which is meant to be passed along to a stranger, neighbor, or friend to spread joy and kindness in Gig Harbor. Karen is a gardener with the Growing Kindness Project and has donated blooms to Gig Harbor nursing home Cottesmore of Life Care.

Learn more about them here:
Wild Handful Farm
4218 83rd Avenue Court NW, Gig Harbor
www.wildhandfulfarm.com

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