About Wild Heart Farm
Our story
At Wild Heart Farm, our mission is to nourish body and spirit by connecting people with the beauty and wisdom of nature. Our gardens provide a healing retreat and an educational laboratory to foster self-reliance, wellness, creativity, ecological study, and community involvement.
In our fractured world, growing and arranging flowers, making medicine, feeding the pollinators, and creating flower inspired art are the ways we put the pieces back together.
We are committed to small-scale, human powered, regenerative farming practices and building community through slow food and flowers.
Meet the Wild-hearted team
We love making music! Check out our home-grown seed song . .….
Kate Watters
For as long as Kate can remember she has dreamed of having a place to root down and grow beauty and biological diversity. Wild Heart Farm is that dream realized. The seed was planted while growing up in rural Vermont with a big backyard garden, and beyond that a small mountain and river to explore.
As a gardener, she loves to co-create with the Earth so as to touch, witness and deeply appreciate the beauty and ephemeral nature of the world. Sharing the detail and diversity that exists in moments from a place through the seasons is her creative mission through writing, floristry, gardening and art. Being awake to witness the wonder of it is her spiritual path.
After 20 years in the field and wilds of botany and conservation she wanted nothing more than to grow a field of flowers. The flowers made her so happy, she wanted to share them with as many people as possible. Her natural, organic floristry style evolved as a love language to the wild and cultivated beings in her gardens and just beyond the fence.
“Flowers are how my soul is nourished and how in turn, I have come to wish to nourish my community.”
Dr. Mike Knapp
Mike grew up in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa watching the vast corn/soy fields surrounding his hamlet become stripmalls and golf courses. As a young pre-med hospital intern he witnessed the patients he cared for get sicker in the hospital from many chronic diseases that could be avoided by eating real food. He learned there were schools that taught the tools naturopathic medicine and quickly changed course and got a degree from National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR.
He is a naturopathic doctor and sees patients in person at Living Light Naturopathic Clinic in Flagstaff, and online through Pure Homeopathy. He is a mindfulness meditation instructor offering online and in person training for medical professionals. At Wild Heart he is our master tea blender and tincture advisor and cultivates the “Open-Hearted Garden,” a diverse collection of medicinal plants.
Meet the Creative Team.
Terri Schuett
Flower Goddess Terri is a horticulturist, master florist, and educator cultivating 21st-century flower power in her daily life. She is the founder of The Happy Vine, focusing on mindful floral design, community, and botanical innovation.
One of Terri’s first memories as a little girl was being immersed in a field of Texas Bluebonnet flowers. This flower child always gravitated toward the beauty of nature. She began her journey in floristry right out of high school working in a flower shop sweeping floors and washing buckets. After nearly 20 years as a retail florist Terri followed her dream to grow her own flowers and studied horticulture and agribusiness at Yavapai College.
Kate and Terri started dreaming outloud about putting Arizona on the flower map since they met as interns at Whipstone Farm in 2016. Now they collaborate on styled shoots, weddings, workshops, events and efforts to spread the word about American grown flowers, Slow Flowers and sustainable floristry.
The Wild Heart flower crew creates magic wherever they go. Photo courtesy of Kristen Caldon-O’Neill
Juju, our rescue dog is my farm comrade my main assistant and witness to the day-to-day craziness