About the Farm
Cultivating botanical beauty in partnership with the natural world.
Brackenshire Farm is a small-scale flower farm located in the Nooksack River Valley.
We grow dozens of varieties of cut flowers – everything from anemones to zinnias – while using regenerative human-scale farm practices.
After a decade of dreaming and scheming, we launched our farm business in 2023. We love what we do - being outside, doing work that’s challenging and tangible, striving to live and work in harmony with natural processes, providing food and flower beauty to our community, and learning so much every day.
Selling flowers locally gives us a chance to share plant power with our wonderful community. We are so grateful to our customers and the wider farming community for supporting our work and our journey — we couldn’t do this alone!
Our Practices
We are always in a two way relationship with the natural world.
Farming can be one of the most environmentally destructive activities humans do – but it doesn't have to be. Choosing methods that regenerate and care for the land we work is important to us. We will never eliminate our impact on this earth, but we can greatly reduce it and we can give back to the land we have a relationship with.
As your farmers, we choose to take this path everywhere we can. We are committed to choosing methods, equipment, inputs, and practices that impart respect and reciprocity for the land we farm, the people we work with, and the wider ecosystems we are a part of.
Meet the Farmers
Rhiannon Le Fay
Rhiannon was brought up with a strong sense of wonder and respect for the natural world. Her botanical career started in vegetable farming and over time, with schooling but mostly hands-on work, her experience grew to include flower farming, medicinal herb cultivation, plant nursery work, and native plant botany and restoration.
Working with plants is also Rhiannon’s favorite way to be creative. Whether it’s sowing seeds or putting together an elaborate flower arrangement, she loves collaborating with nature to create something intentional but also outside of her control, which is exhilarating and fulfilling (and scary!).
When she’s not farming, Rhiannon loves to hike in the mountains, swim in the Salish Sea, and share food with her friends.
Alex Harris
Alex is the Operations Lead on the farm, focusing his time on infrastructure projects, tractor work, and other miscellaneous tasks. In his day job, Alex helps run Whatcom County’s Conservation Easement Program, where he works with farmers to preserve working lands, restore riparian corridors, and protect ecologically sensitive areas. Alex passionately believes that promoting the long-term stewardship of our working lands is one of the most meaningful ways we can strengthen rural communities and build resilience in the face of climate change.
In his free time, Alex enjoys rambling through the forests and mountains of east Whatcom County, floating the Nooksack River and its forks, and playing music with his neighbors.
Pippin
Pippin is the Senior Morale Officer on the farm. Without his shenanigans, long farm days would be a slog!
