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Imagine you are walking through sunlit fields of majestic tulips, brilliantly golden Sunflowers, tall green grasses, Zinnias, Golden Rods, Cosmos, selecting your own flowers to take home and enjoy.
Step into Vintage Family Farms, a pick-your-own flower farm on Rt. 331 outside of Preston.
Katelin and Eric Frase built their flower farming homestead four years ago with their two daughters, Amelia and Dorothea.
"I wanted to do something that brings joy to people" Katelin says, "I still remember picking strawberries with my mom when I was a kid. I wanted to provide a place for other families to create memories like that."
The 35-acre farm has grown to include interactive games, bunny snuggling, flower parties, and other creative activities. Eric grows Heirloom variety vegetables that are sold to local restaurants and at farmer's markets. Katelin's oldest daughter, Amelia, manages the rabbits as a 4-H member and is learning business entrepreneurship at the age of 12. Her younger sister, Dorothea, is 9 and helps out with general chores.
The farm is also home to four dogs, four cats and 30 Champagne d'argent rabbits, plus chickens, ducks, Guinea hens and two Kunekune pigs!
Katelin hosts special "Flowertainment" events at Johnny's Tavern in East New Market and Corah's Corner in St. Michaels. She would like to partner with other businesses who want to hold outdoor events at her farm.
She envisions all 35 acres of the farm covered in flowers some day!
Appointments to visit the farm are encouraged but not required. There are various sizes of flower containers to choose from. The pick your own fields are open through September.
