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Reflection: Looking Back on 2025 to Step Clearly into the New Year
- Flourish Organic Farms
- 5 days ago
- 4 min read
As the year comes to a close, I’ve been making space to reflect on goals set, hopes carried into the season, and what truly unfolded. Reflection offers perspective, allowing us to honor growth while learning from the year behind us.
For our small cut flower farm, 2025 was filled with meaningful connections, creativity, and community.
A Season Remembered
The year revealed itself through moments of gathering, collaboration, and commitment to the land.
I kicked off 2025 by returning to Stanwood’s Country Living Homestead Expo alongside the Stillaguamish Valley Beekeeper Collective. A reminder of the strength found in local agriculture and shared stewardship.
One of the year’s most meaningful milestones was the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Floral Current Collective. With the support of the City of Arlington, we popped up weekly downtown Arlington, offering wholesale flowers to event professionals and intentionally investing in long-term relationships rooted in trust and creativity.
Spring introduced a new offering, the first annual Floral Current Collective Plant Sale at Arlington’s Innovation Center. Sharing plants and growing knowledge felt like a natural extension of the farm’s purpose, cultivating connection beyond the harvest.
Mother’s Day at The Arlington Farmers Market marked the start of Flourish’s seventh season. Seeing returning customers alongside new faces continues to fuel this work. Community remains at the heart of everything we grow.
The Arlington Farmers Market is every Saturday in Historic Downtown Arlington, at Legion Park. Although I am not there every Saturday, you can find our Floral Current Flower Farmers representing local seasonal flowers.
Throughout the summer, our flowers returned to be part of art-forward spaces, including Sorticulture in downtown Everett and Everett’s Fresh Paint Art Festival, where seasonal blooms met creative expression. We were invited to the Everett Waterfront’s, Hotel Indigo, Women’s Wellness Workshop.
This year also marked my first podcast recording with The Market Maven. Sharing the story of Flourish through conversation, touching on farming, seasonality, and collaboration, opened a new way to connect.
🎧 Listen to the episode here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2139478/episodes/17020701r
I grew marigolds this season and discovered how meditative it felt to string them onto never-ending garlands, often working as quickly as the blooms could be harvested.
This year marked my fourth year serving on the Arlington Community Food Bank Fundraising Committee. Floral Current Flower Farmer Collective was honored to grow and arrange the fresh local florals for the annual gala, hosted for the first time at Angel of the Winds Casino. I remain grateful for the collaboration and collective support behind this work.
Beyond public events, the season held quieter practices. I prioritized capturing the flowers through my macro lens and documenting the blooms up close through photography. I gathered natural plant dye and experimented with dying textiles, and began recording the sounds of the garden. These slower projects invited deeper attention to the details often missed in a busy growing season.
Through it all, I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to continue cultivating this land. Each year strengthens my respect for its rhythms and the responsibility of tending it well.
Entering the New Year with Clarity
I opted to begin the new year with a social media fast. This decision was liberating, creating space to more intentionally steward my time and energy. Stepping away from constant input allowed priorities to come into focus.
My word for the year is CLARITY.
On the farm, clarity reflects the season itself. Winter is not a time for output, but for observation, Dahlia tuber dividing, and preparation. By removing distractions, it became easier to see what this land is asking for next, meaning what to grow, where to focus my energy, and how to move forward sustainably.
Just as seeds need the right conditions before they emerge, clarity allows the next season to unfold with intention. When we return to our North Star, the next step becomes rooted, steady, and aligned.
Looking Ahead
As the new season begins to take shape, I’m holding space for clarity and trusting the process. Believing that when we move in rhythm with the land, what’s next will reveal itself in time.
If you find yourself entering the new year or a new season, I invite you to pause and reflect. What word might guide you forward? What intention feels steady enough to return to when life feels full?
May this year offer moments of stillness, honest reflection, and the courage to follow what feels most aligned.
Keep Flourishing,
Kari 🌿
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