06/13/2024
🤩Farm Update!🤩
First, we cannot believe the support that we have received from the community in regard to the code violations we received from the city. We were not expecting that at all. I have been waiting until we had everything situated before making a post and with last weeks tragedy in Livonia, also wanted to wait before making any kind of update. This might be a long one but here goes....
In the beginning of the year I started a new job in addition to real estate and now work Mon-Fri as does my husband. My husband and I had discussed stopping farm activities at the end of this summer, but we had not reached a decision yet because we were so torn, we absolutely love the joy our farm brings to people! With our kids getting older and schedule changes, it has been a lot working our jobs and running the farm. When we received the violations in the mail we were still pretty upset and frustrated because although we did discuss stopping farm activities, we would have wanted to end on a good note and not like this. We discussed if we were up to potentially fighting with the city on the violations, but my husband and I agreed that because we were already thinking of stopping the farm at the end of the summer, we didn't want to bring on any other potential issues with trying to keep the farm going.
With that said, we were still upset that we could not stop farm activities, especially with the HUGE amount of support from the city, the way we had hoped. I can say that City Council has been nothing but supportive and amazing!!! They would absolutely have our back if we wanted to continue and even the code enforcement manager was also easy to work with. Bottom line was that while we loved bringing our unique farm to Livonia and will absolutely miss seeing everyone, we just were not wanting to pursue continuing to stay open with the city. The long story of it is that it would absolutely bring other potential issues if we wanted to continue.
I know that seems like bad news, BUT I do have some good news to share! The city and code enforcement asked us what the ideal situation with all of this would be and we asked if there was anyway we could continue farm activities through the end of the summer and they said YES! I have updated our website with the last farm visits and goat yoga at Blue Line Farms! Remember to please sign up on the website! And if coming for yoga especially please please please, try and carpool if possible!
Last Farm Visit Days:
visits are 45 mins- 10a, 11a, and 12p (if we fill up fast we will add in more time slots)
June 22nd
July 20th
August 17th
Last Goat Yoga Days:
June 23rd at 11a
July 10th at 6p
August 18th at 11a
August 23rd at 6pm
I will also make a separate post for the farm visits and goat yoga with more details for each. We want to thank everyone for their amazing support over these last 4 years! We have loved sharing our little urban farm and bringing happiness to so many! Hopefully everyone will be able to schedule a visit if they want to come say goodbye!
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Edward and Angela started Blue Line Farms in 2018 when we bought our home, and began our business in 2020. Angela was born and raised in Livonia and really wanted to raise her family in the Livonia community.
