It all began with an economic downturn. It was 2012 and I was fresh out of college. I applied to job after job. No one was hiring. After what seemed like the millionth rejection letter, I made a decision. I’d give it a rest for the summer, move to an island, be a farm intern for the summer, and try again in the fall. It didn’t take me long to fall in love. With the land. With the island. With the farming life. And in a blink of an eye, ten years went by!

After that first fateful island summer, I was hooked. I would be an islander for the next decade. I trained to be a teacher and taught island children. I lived in all kinds of unexpected places, including a houseboat named ‘Cozy.’ I grew little gardens wherever I could and taught children the joy of growing in the school garden. I fell in love with my husband and after a quick jaunt in Maine, settled in a beach cottage on Crescent Beach on our island of Orcas.
There I started Fabled Flora, right next to the Salish Sea.

And my how it’s grown! In 2022, we said goodbye to island life and moved to the Victorian seaport of Port Townsend, WA. Fabled Flora found a bigger home in an old net-mending field on Hastings and Howard. I live with my husband Kai, and our Maine Coon, Pip in a 1940s cedar shingle cottage on the farm.

Tel. 206.661.8348
Email: emmy@fabledflora.com