Hi, my name is Amanda! I live in Grand Rapids, MI and I am the owner of Two Hands in the Dirt. At the beginning of the pandemic I was itching to do something new. One day I was strolling through the Fulton Street Farmer’s Market and I could just feel deep down that I wanted to grow. I didn’t know what I wanted to grow, but I knew I wanted to be working outdoors…with my hands in the dirt 😏. I followed that urge and decided to apply to a local organic vegetable farm. I spent one season working for them and while I learned so much about how to grow, I didn’t feel passionate about vegetables and felt a little discouraged and lost about where to go next.

It was in the moment pictured below that I knew I wanted to grow flowers. I was on vacation with a friend and found this lovely patch of goldenrod and decided to harvest some. Something else clicked for me and I knew i needed to grow flowers, even just for myself.

I never felt like I actively chose to have a flower farm, it just naturally happened. I decided I wanted to grow flowers for myself and all of the sudden I was purchasing 30 packets of seeds in all different varieties and wondering where I would grow them. My aunt and uncle graciously offered to let me grow flowers on their land and that’s when the farm began.