Hi, I’m Crosley - the face behind Drift Prairie Farm.

After walking through some life-changing seasons, I found myself searching for something that brought me true joy, fulfillment, and the ability to be fully present for the people who matter most. What I discovered was right here on the farm.

For years, I quietly grew flowers and vegetables just for myself and my family, but once I began sharing them with others, I realized how much my community valued it too. That encouragement turned into a career path—one that lets me spend my days where I feel most at peace: on the farm, surrounded by blooms, vegetables, livestock and wide-open space.

Everything I grow here starts from seed in my own hands. From January through April, you’ll find trays of tiny seedlings under lights in my basement. With care and patience, I raise them into strong plants that are transplanted into the field come May or June—where they grow into the flowers and vegetables you see and enjoy. Every bloom and harvest begins right here, nurtured from start to finish.

This work allows me to be a present mother, spending as much time as possible with my son. It also allows me to work side by side with my parents, helping them with our family’s cattle operation — providing a source of locally raised beef to the community, and registered breeding stock to customers across the United States and beyond. Watching part of our herd graze in the same pasture where the flowers and vegetables grow is a beautiful sight!

It’s a life built around connection: to family, to the land, and to the values of providing for yourself and your community. Growing, preserving, and sustaining are at the heart of how I live, and I’m grateful that my farm gives me the chance to do just that.

Another piece of my “why” is sustainability. Most grocery store and florist flowers are shipped from across the country or overseas, which carries a heavy environmental cost. The same goes for the majority of grocery produce. Here, I strive to focus on seasonal production while making the farm as close to zero waste as possible. Nothing is ever just discarded: flowers not used in bouquets are dried for future off season creations or saved for seed, while vegetables that aren’t eaten fresh, preserved, or shared with others are given to our chickens as a healthy source of nutrition. Every harvest finds a purpose.

I try to recycle, reuse, and repurpose things as much as possible and approach projects with a creative mind before making the decision to source new materials.

At the end of the day, this isn’t just a business for me—it’s a way of life. It’s a reflection of everything I believe in: family, hard work, sustainability, and finding joy in the simple, beautiful things. I wake up every day genuinely excited to do this work; to bring beauty and nourishment into my community, and to share the joy I’ve found in this little farm sanctuary. My hope is that every bouquet, every vegetable, and every piece of this farm that I share with others carries a little bit of that joy and rootedness with it.