Hey y'all! Welcome to Fields for Ellie!

Fields for Ellie Flower & Farm Company is a small family owned and operated cut flower farm & seed company nestled in the delta hills of Senatobia, MS. The farm producers fresh cut flowers, floral designs, dried flowers, seasonal products, a growing assortment of seeds, tubers, corms, and bulbs as well as floral preservation, event designs, photography designs, educational workshops, speaking engagements, and garden designs.

Generally, we are not open to the public except for special occasions which will be announced via our social media sites and email. This is why we don't widely advertise our address. We feel the same need for privacy and safety that I'm sure you do. I prefer all inquiries go through email initially as I am currently a one lady show and the phone can be pretty tough to manage some days. Please don't eat or let anyone/thing you know eat our products. We don't advertise them as consumable due to possible toxicities and allergies. Please respect our privacy and our farm if you happen to stop by to pick up your flowers on pick up days at one of our pick locations. No unscheduled visits allowed. Tours and speaking engagements do require advance scheduling and fees.

 

Where We Began

One mom, two kids, and a need for a lot of plant therapy. We've always had a garden and flowers, no matter where we were in the world. There were dogs, cats, rabbits, cows, chickens and ducks along the way too. This porch garden was different, though. Life gave us an opportunity to better our environment, but in order to do so, we had to give up everything we had ever known. That took courage, strength, resiliency, adaptability, but probably most importantly, the ability to endure perhaps one of life's greatest heartbreaks, not once, but twice!  

In the first of the greatest emotions, I took the children to town and we purchased all of the supplies we needed to build ourselves a large porch garden. My hopes were that this would give the children something to focus on, to love, to tend to, to distract them, to learn and to help them overcome. In this spot we broke and healed together. We evolved. We grew. The love for growing plants evolved as well. Ellie wanted more! She wanted to do more with it. She wanted to give it to the world! I told my sweet little girl that one day we would have fields and fields of plants and flowers. We would work them together and we were able, we would share them with the world! Little did I know, it would come true and so soon too! In 2021, we moved back to Mississippi to our family’s farm and spent an entire summer learning, failing and preparing (if that’s possible) for our next big adventure. A year later, I was able to purchase a small farm of our own. Now, we have three available locations to grow on, and are growing an incredible business supported by the best community in the world!

Our personal and past experiences mixed with the nature of our hearts are the driving factors behind our determination to pay it forward and give back to our community as much as we can. We also strive to be as sustainable and regenerative as possible as we are nothing without a beautiful, thriving earth. This is why our moto states:

"Healing hearts, minds, and the environment through flowers."

Our little porch garden. Ellie was 3 years old.

 

Who We Are

Ashley - Owner/Operator

Hi! I'm Ashley. The creator, owner and operator of FFE. I am a granddaughter of Dutch immigrants. I'm a super proud mom to my spectacular kids, Jude and Ellie. I am a cellular and molecular biologist with a focus in medical botany. I have a second degree in applied ethics. I am a world traveler, artist, writer and philanthropist. I have lived on or spent some time on every continent except like 2 or 3. I have lived in a multitude of states and traveled most of the rest. I was a military wife for over a decade, and then I was an Executive Director for the United States Department of Agriculture for many years. After my divorce, I moved my children back to my home state of Mississippi from the wonderful state of Virginia where we lived many years on the coast and then in Appalachia. Nestled in the delta hills, my children unexpectedly lost their father, but we all gained perhaps one of the most wonderful people in the world, Klaus. We are now an international family with ties to the Germany, and the ability to visit the Netherlands fairly often. I use our time in Europe to draw upon education, variety and inspiration for our farm, family, and communities here in America.

Mostly and overall, I'm just a girl who loves plants. I am the one lady show behind this operation. I conduct 96% of everything done on this farm from admin to orders, to purchasing, planting, planning, designing, harvesting, preserving, drying, cleaning, delivering... you name it!

 

Ellie - Co-owner, PR, Fundraising, Creative, Pollinator Specialist

Ellie is not just a name sake around here, she is the real deal! She is the heart and soul of this farm, and if it wasn't for her, we wouldn't be where we are today! She is the one that dreamed of this farm and her ideas first set it into motion. She grew, harvested and collected sunflowers and took them to market for our very first time. This lead to every other market and selling opportunity that we have today.

Often the face of our daily happenings and announcements, Ellie loves letting her huge personality shine! She enjoys learning and working around the farm as much as a busy little 8 year old can do. She thrives in helping others, and loves to pass on her love and knowledge of nature every chance she gets. Ellie is the one drives the mission for using our company to help others, and more often than not, finds exactly the best ways to do so.