We have grown veggies for market, and personal consumption for years. After the pandemic and seeing how many people needed things outdoors to do (lakes were full everyday, not enough stuff for the hoards of a booming population here in north Texas). We decided having a you pick operation would be a good idea. We decided on flowers because let's face it, most people would destroy a vegetable garden picking veggies, but we figure snipping a flower stem wouldn't be quite as difficult for someone with no gardening experience, plus we have made signs with instruction for each row of flowers on how and where to cut them. We're starting small this first season, we've got about 350ftx3ft beds planted out of heat loving varieties (sunflowers, zinnias, celosia, cosmos, amaranth, marigold, statice, gomphrena, basil). We're also prepping a larger site on another part of the property to plant pumpkins, as well as sunflower and zinnias in a much larger quantity, and hoping to open our first smallish fall pumpkin patch this fall. Wish us luck!