Blooms & Bovine

Our story

September 2011, Matt and I decided to give the dating thing a go. We went out on a few dates, he began to teach me how to ride a horse. we would spend every day after school our on trail rides, checking the cattle at his house and learning what made us who we are.

With his dad being gone for work week on week off it left him at home to look after the cattle they had left (they sold out after the prices came back up after the BSE crisis). His mom spent a lot of time away as well travelling in and around our province for her career in social work.

September turned into October and October turned into November. The snow began to fly and being the person I am I would spend hours helping feed and check on the herd.

4 short years later and there we were purchasing our own homestead! 2 quarters of exceptional alfalfa with a house and heated shop. With hopes of starting our own replacement heifer operation. Well you know that herd I spent my senior year tending to? That was my future husbands education fund to do as he pleases with. They were beautiful black angus influenced cattle. A commercial herd but nonetheless exactly what we needed as a base herd.

3 years in and we have doubled our numbers and have 10 fantastic fleshy heifers awaiting this years breeding season. We purchased a deep, streamline Hereford bull to put on the cow herd and we will use our black angus we purchased two years ago to breed the heifers.

Currently we are still in the process of getting a well dug on our home property (the house is on town water). So for now the cattle are a mile away at my parents main homestead.

In 2016 I married my best friend we had the most amazing day on what was a very soggy July. My husband works as a 4th class power engineer at a gas plant just minutes outside of our hometown where he has worked since 2014. I spent a lot of years working at the local greenhouse where I found my passion for design and was able to express myself creatively. Since having our 3 kiddos, I am now full time on the farm and managing the cut flower business.

Anyways that’s our beginning in a nutshell and it’s crazy to think that this all started in 2011!