About
Kaleigh + Jeff
flower farmers, florists, lovebirds
Our gardening lives began separately but converged when we met and soon after we began Honey Water to grow flowers and share them with others and live as much life together as possible. We both grew up in the Seattle area, and feel a deep connection to the waters, trees, mountains, and skies of this place. Seasons and cycles are endless sources of information and inspiration for us. Our flower work comes from this connection with land and time, and our hearts beating along with it all. Running a flower business is truly very sweet, and there’s always something to learn and be moved by. We’re fortunate to get to share our small purposeful life, and get to play a role in people’s special days. It’s a total joy.
Kaleigh spent years farming and arranging flowers on Orcas Island where she worked for the best people and the island spirit shaped her greatly. She paused her flower endeavors to teach high school horticulture for three years before shifting back into the slower, more tender pace of growing flowers. She loves poetry and quiet places, and loves her friends dearly. You can often find her with petals in her pocket and dirt on her boots.
Jeff was a carpenter for many years and spent years working in restaurants, bartending, and hosting Thursday night dinners with his dear friends. He started doing pottery around the same time we started Honey Water and many of vessels for weddings and drieds are made by him. He’s a friend that says “yes” and reads a poem before dinner. Major weeper, big heart. You can often find him with garden snips in his pocket, admiring a dog across the street.
Our Garden
We grow a range of cut flowers on a small plot just south of downtown Seattle on ancestral Muckleshoot and Puyallup land. The garden is at the base of Jeff’s grandma’s house, in a brambly gully right on the Puget Sound. Over the past few growing seasons, we have recovered old overgrown beds, cleared blackberry brambles, built raised beds, experienced king tides and all the magic of growing in the PNW.
We strive to nourish the soil and be caring neighbors to the ocean ecosystem we are so close to by using regenerative growing practices and a light touch. We hand water our beds and create habitat for the birds and other creatures we share the space with. We don’t grow on an efficient production level, but a small and slow amount that’s enough for what we need.
This is important to us, because it shapes the way our flowers and designs feel. Space for intention, for care, for creativity, for that bit of wildness to come in.
Our Ethos
For flow, for shared time, for beauty, for love.
We keep things small and slow in our growing practices and designs so we can feel connected to what we’re doing and what we bring into your days. It’s important to us that the designs we create are alive with the wild essence of the flowers and that authenticity and kindness guide the way.
