About Us

Where Agriculture Meets Hospitality

 

Meet Carrie

Hi! I’m Carrie Mayfield!

My passion is to share hospitality and agriculture. I want to encourage people to make others welcome in our homes, on the road and in our everyday life! I want to share how our food and fabric is grown on the farm. In these blog posts I hope that I can inspire you through our beautiful farmhouse, days on the farm and the building of relationships that matter.

My husband, Gary and I farm in Arizona. We grow vegetables, cotton, alfalfa, and grain.

We have been married for almost 38 years and have 3 terrific children, who are married to great people and 11 grandchildren. You will get to know them here also!

I have a degree from the University of Arizona in Agricultural Journalism. I have freelanced for Agricultural and Rodeo publications, spent time as a substitute teacher in my children’s classrooms, worked side by side with my husband on the farm and raised three kids! In recent years I have spent my time as an event coordinator/decorator for all the different organizations I’m involved in with my church, community and for friends.

I decided to become a blogger to share some of my life experiences on the farm and at home as well as inspire you to practice hospitality in your everyday life! So enjoy getting to know my family here at Sweet Flower Home!

I can’t wait to hear from you!

Carrie

 

Sweet Flower Home

What started as a place to share some progress on our family home and some lessons from life, has turned into something more. Sweet Flower Home is about hospitality and farm living. Our hope is to inspire others to the lost art of making people feel at home and welcome. And to help people better understand where their food and fabric comes from on the farm. From our blog posts to our events we want to help people find a way to make the world better.

Easter Tablescape Inspo

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Hispanic Heritage Profile: Alex Morales

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Photographer’s Sunflower Booking Party 2023

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Thanksgiving Table

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Thanksgiving at my house was one part chaos, one part delicious food and full on THANKFUL! We certainly enjoyed our meal. As usual there was lots of it. I went wild making all kinds of desserts this year! That is my favorite part of...

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I am so excited to introduce my first guest for my Hispanic Heritage Profile, Sierra Rae Lewis. Some of you may already know that Sierra is my niece. Sierra is a 26 years old graduate of West Texas A&M University. She majored in Agricultural Media and...

The Trail Ahead

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Sunflower Season is Almost Here

Hey friends! I just wanted to do a little catching up and info session here. YES we plan on hosting sunflower photography sessions again this fall. We will be planting flowers next week. Our plan is to plant in one week increments. This will hopefully provide us with...

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