About Lindsey & Sweet Pea’s

Established in 2020, Sweet Pea’s Stems was born out of my passion, perfect timing and a bit of pure luck. People needed flowers during the height of the pandemic. I was working a full-time job as a surgical physician assistant, and well, the hospital and our patients needed flowers too. People started asking if they could buy my flowers and I said YES!

The beginning

I began with a grow room in my basement, then started to expand into my home’s small yard. Through my first year in business I did weddings, farmers markets, and sold to florists. I fulfilled personal orders, and partnered with a few hospital volunteers to start a cancer center flower delivery program for patients undergoing chemotherapy.

I started noticing the joy on peoples’ faces when I handed them a bundle of flowers or the tears in their eyes when they saw their wedding bouquets. I began to hear their beautiful, happy, sad, motivating, and life changing stories when they would tell me the reason that they were buying flowers. I couldn’t get enough of these connections that I was making. I didn’t recognize how fulfilling this could be.

Expansion: Finding more land and leaving my job

Eventually I grew flowers in every part of my small yard. It was time to expand but I didn’t have enough space to grow at a commercial level. I reached out to TCF’s McDonald Farm, and explained my business and my dilemma. They took a chance on me and in the spring of 2021 I got to work!

In 2022, I took an even bigger leap of faith and left my corporate job as a surgical physician assistant after 17 years in practice.

What I absolutely love about my business

I love the connections I make with clients. Their stories, their nostalgia, their wedding days, their important events. The quality of my life, connection with people and nature, and the quality of my relationships has far outperformed what I could have ever expected. I must mention the connection I feel to the Earth as the second half of the best part of what I do. To me, this is my spirituality. Connecting with nature, flowing with the gifts as well as the curses she delivers. The lessons of respect and humility, and “just being.”

Local flowers, grown sustainably

It’s incredibly fulfilling to watch something turn from a tiny seed into a gorgeous, perfect, stunning piece of art just because of your own TLC and a little dirt.

But I want everyone to know that I’m out here doing something different than the rest! Growing specialty blooms that can’t typically be found nearby, while upholding the sustainability and organic standards that I wish everyone would put the time and effort into doing for the sake of our beautiful planet.

Fun fact about Lindsey:

If I could choose a group of people to have dinner with, these empowering women would be at my table and have had such a huge influence on my life:

Jane Goodall, Erin Benzakein of Floret Flowers, Lucille Ball, Daphne Sheldrick of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.