10/13/2025
On this Indigenous Peoples Day, we pause to remember whose land we stand upon.
Before it was called Hazelwood, before Missouri had a name, this ground was home to the Osage, Illini, and other Native nations —people who understood the soil as sacred, who farmed, foraged, and prayed in rhythm with the earth.
Their stewardship still lives here — in the rain that feeds our fields, in the prairie grass that returns each spring,
in the quiet wisdom of the land itself.
At Fleur de Lis Farm, we honor that legacy not only in words, but in practice — striving to give back, to remember that we are temporary caretakers, not owners.
May our work be an offering of gratitude, and our harvest a promise to do better —for the land, and for those who first called it home.