Florence “Flo” Parsley was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. Her most fond memories from childhood are centered around time spent outside enjoying Florida’s natural wonders with her family. Flo’s pursuit of an equestrian career took her to a small college in Virginia, where she first enjoyed simple living in a small mountain town. She quickly changed majors to Environmental Studies and in these courses realized the importance of contributing to building a resilient community. Her favorite professors were avid gardeners and naturalists and she looked up to their philosophies on life.

After college, Flo moved to Whitefish, Montana where her chosen life path started to take shape. She started a farm apprenticeship at Two Bear Farm and went on to spend three years there learning and continuously being in awe of it all. After renovating a truck camper, Florence and her partner, Arin, spent an adventurous summer in Teton Valley, Idaho living out of the camper and working at Canewater Farm. They returned to Whitefish when Florence received a manager position overseeing vegetable production at a flower farm. While this position didn’t last for the whole summer, Florence learned a lot about running a farm during the few months she was there. She spent the rest of that season part- time on Raven Ridge Farm and at The Farmers Stand. 

During all of this time working on farms, Flo knew that one day she would have a farm of her own and often dreamed about and planned what that would look like. Finally, she decided to pursue this dream and began looking for a place to start. Knowing how hard it is to find land and get started farming, Two Bear offered space at their farm for her, and Three P’s Farm was born.