Welcome to our farm website! We are Hayden and Taylor Sievers, owner/operators of Sievers Blumen Farm in beautiful Calhoun County, Illinois. You can usually find us moving cows, starting seeds, pruning roses, stitching leather, and wrangling our 4 little children.
We raise Regenerative beef, create handmade leather goods, & write rural-themed books.
We began as a cut flower farm in 2019, committed to providing fresh and unique flowers to the community.
But, now, we’ve blossomed into so much more.
Hayden was bit by the cattle bug shortly after we started our farm. Now we raise a combination of Aberdeen Angus, South Poll, Irish Dexter, and some milk cows on pasture and hay alone. We are committed to raising animals “regeneratively”. We strive to create a herd that thrives on forage–it’s what cows were meant to do, after all!
Regenerative agriculture is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot today, and many of you may not understand what that means. To put it simply, we want to invest in our land so that it continues to produce for years to come. We don’t want to just keep the soil at the status quo so that it only keeps us afloat (i.e. “sustainability”). We want to feed the soil through our management practices to ensure we are building soil, nutrients, and nutrient cycling via microbes. The key term here is “building”. Healthy soil, healthy pastures, healthy cows–that’s our motto.
We are always learning! What we’ve enjoyed about this process is the every day assessment of our land and our cows. True stewardship involves daily observation and reflection. We’ve learned a lot about cows, cover crops, and soil so far. On YouTube, we share what we’re learning and give honest updates on our progress.
For both of us, farming has been a part of our life from day one. Hayden grew up on a hog and grain farm (on this very piece of land we live on!), while Taylor was raised in east central Illinois on a cattle and grain farm. Farming has been in our families for generations, so the decision to start our own farm was met with little hesitation.
You’ll notice in our farm shop that we have some other items available, namely some books and handcrafted leather goods. Taylor published her first book in 2023, and since then has been writing romantic fiction and other gardening-related nonfiction based on her experience flower farming and gardening. Her second novel, The Rosarian, will be released in 2026.
In the shop, you’ll find leather bags, wallets, totes, and more! We are passionate about using real fibers (like cotton, linen, and wool) and real leather hides. What can we say? Real food, real fibers, real leather–they’re just better. When we purchase non-synthetic goods, we are supporting farmers and ranchers across the globe and reducing the amount of hides that go into a landfill.
Why “Blumen”?
Yes, we know how to spell “blooming”. I’m sure many of you have wondered why our farm has such a funny name! Naming a business is no easy task. We knew we needed a balance between something meaningful, yet something that explained what our farm was going to be doing.
“Blumen” is the German word for “flowers”.
So, why German?
If you are unfamiliar with the southern portion of Calhoun County, this area has a rich German heritage dating back to a German migration into the area that happened around the 1840s. St. Joseph’s Cemetery just down the road is filled with several headstones marked with inscriptions written in German. Not only is Meppen filled with rich German history (there’s also a Meppen, Germany), but also our own ancestries.
The house we live in on our property was actually built for Hayden’s great aunt named Mary Sievers (who married 32-year old great uncle Henry Kronable when she was 52!). She ran a general store that used to sit in our front yard. We’re told that she sold lots of goods in her store that were produced from her very own garden!
Mary was one of many children in the Sievers family that came from that line of German immigrants to Calhoun County. In honor of our own ancestries, where we live, and the history of our county, it felt only right to include something that hearkens to our past.