Small Rain Farm

Nikki Pressley is a grower and creator based in Hurdle Mills, NC, but whose family roots are in South Carolina. She has been growing food over the past 10 years and stewarding land in North Carolina, specifically, for the past four. She has grown in small and urban farm settings, working at school and restaurant gardens and running a small CSA. Currently as Small Rain Farm, Nikki is focusing on selling vegetable/herb/flower starts as well as perennials to gardeners and other small farmers. She has a growing interest in seed growing in order to create a regionally adapted seed library for her own nursery production. Nikki has nurtured her commitment to supporting and connecting to small farmers, particularly farmers of color, through her own farming project, working in communities of farmers and more recently working with farm-focused non-profits. She spends her time outside of agrarian work being a mama, reading, hiking, making and wandering outside.

Plant focus: herbs and natives

Plant recommendations:

• Clary sage: beautiful flower for pollinators and has culinary value

• Comfrey: another beautiful flower with medicinal uses

• Chamomile: easy to grow, can withstand cooler temps of winter well