Welcome to Our Farm.
We are proud farmer-florists providing you the highest quality flowers for all of life’s occasions.
Our South St. Louis City farmstead is located seven miles south of the St. Louis Gateway Arch and dates to 1870. The Held family purchased the farm in 1905. For three generations, the Helds farmed the land, growing vegetables and flowers to sell in St Louis. In 1925 they opened a retail florist shop, and by the 1950’s were operating several glass greenhouses, one of which still stands. The property diminished over the years as pieces were sold off for development and the family eventually sold the farm in the mid 1990’s.
The property changed hands several times until Urban Buds purchased it in 2012 in order to revitalize the property and, in a nod to its rich history, to continue the farming tradition. The land totals about an acre, one glass greenhouse remains as does the former florist shop. The rehab on these distressed structures continues.
Meet Mimo.
A transplant from New York City, Mimō Davis, has been growing specialty cut flowers in Missouri since 1992. Her first farm, WildThang Farms, was located in Ashland, Missouri. Currently, she is a farmer-florist and co-owner of Urban Buds: City Grown Flowers, a one-acre flower farm in the Dutchtown neighborhood of St. Louis, with her business partner, Miranda Duschack. Urban Buds produces flowers year-round and grows 80-plus varieties annually, selling wholesale to St. Louis area florists, designing for select weddings and events, and bringing fresh, seasonal blooms to the Tower Grove and Boulevard Farmers’ Markets.
Mimo is dedicated to mentoring and educating other flower farmers and serves on the board of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers as Community Engagement and Outreach Liaison, helping to foster growth and knowledge within the cut flower industry. Mimo holds a Master’s degree in Horticulture from North Carolina A&T University.
Meet Miranda.
Originally from the rural township of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and a fourth-generation beekeeper, Miranda’s connection to farming and the trade runs deep. She brings over twenty years of farming experience working in production agriculture to her work as co-founder and operator of Urban Buds flower farm in St Louis, Missouri, established 2012. In addition to commercial farming, she currently serves as a Farmer Advisor for the Center for Regenerative Agriculture, grants consultant for the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers (ASCFG), and member of the Farm Service Agency (FSA) St. Louis Urban County Committee which works on farm policy and program development to serve small-scale urban producers. She served as a Small Farm Specialist for Lincoln University of Missouri Cooperative Extension from 2010-2024, and as a member of the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) Administrative Council from 2021-2024. Miranda has a dual emphasis Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sustainable Agriculture and Sociology from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington (2003), and a Permaculture Design Certification from The Possibility Alliance in LaPlata, Missouri (2010).
Grant Writing and Consultation Services
Securing funding and building resilient farm businesses since 2010.
Specializing in helping farms access critical funding through grants, cost-shares, crop insurance, crisis funding, and marketing assistance. Miranda's proven track record includes $3.55million US in successful grant and cost-share awards, and success for 136 farmer clients, as well as securing funding for sixteen different not-for-profit organizations, faith-based projects, universities, and schools.
For grants help contact Miranda.Duschack@gmail.com or 314-604-3403
