The People

Painted Table Farm is a flower farm in Gilroy, California, owned by Todd and Carly. The two met through poetry school in 2022. Eventually conversations about writing moved toward a shared dream to work with our hands to build something lasting.

The farm is managed through regenerative practices—building soil health, working with the rhythms of the seasons, and practicing non-synthetic pest management to grow flowers that are fresh, vibrant, and fragrant.

Our flowers are grown at hand-scale in open fields. Heat, rainfall, and daylight hours all affect what is available week to week and month to month.

We harvest flowers daily. When you visit our farm stand you are buying flowers that have traveled from our field to stand. About 500 human steps instead of the 5,000 jet miles that cut flowers typically travel.

We are a family owned business and a small team. We love the work. We make mistakes and learn from them. We don’t take ourselves too seriously.

A painted table gets nicked, scuffed, and painted over again. It is a working surface. It is welcoming. It may be peeling or faded, but there is always a seat. That is what we’re building here.

A woman with light brown hair holding a large bouquet of pink and white flowers, standing outdoors in a park with trees and bushes in the background.
A man with gray hair and beard smiling, wearing glasses, a blue beanie, and a black t-shirt, holding two large buckets overflowing with pink roses, outdoors with trees and a clear blue sky in the background.

The Land

Our flowers are grown on a micro-farm of two acres where our home also sits. Our field opens to Day Valley, a locally treasured microclimate west of Gilroy sandwiched between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Gavilan Hills. The valley is home to coyotes, deer, fox, kingsnakes, native hawks, herons, egrets, yellow-billed magpies (native to only to central California!) and even a pair of bald eagles. The land directly behind our farm has been a working cattle ranch for one hundred years and steers and cows sometimes come up to the fence to say hello.

Our farm operates on the traditional, unceded territory of the Ohlone and Amah Mutsun nations. As farmers, we recognize that the high biodiversity and richness of this soil are the result of thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship. We commit to practicing regenerative agriculture in alignment with their legacy of land care.