About
photo by Jillian Bowes
foundation.
HONEYABY was once only a pipe dream. A romantic notion of how a life could be.
From a young girl, Malorie Evens has spent the majority of her life with her hands in the dirt. Many nights were spent digging up nightcrawlers for fishing bait with her father by flashlight after a storm - days were long, often helping her paternal grandmother snapping green beans harvested off their small rural homestead. Her maternal grandparents tended to a tiny urban garden just minutes outside of Detroit - mastering the art of growing a bounty in a tiny space - a skill that would carry over into adulthood.
In college, Malorie studied Fine Arts & oil painting - after which she found herself where many art majors do, in the hospitality industry.
Nearly two decades of wedding work later — bartending, styling & catering, would plant a seed that would become a lifelong passion.
HONEYBABY was founded in the winter of 2022 on the belief that all love deserves to be honored with grace, gentleness & beauty. The epitome of a flower- beautiful in every stage of it’s life, swaying through the winds of change & becoming stronger through each adversity it encountered.
With years of experience, came years of discouraging observations in the industry. After every event we would witness flowers imported from thousands of miles away, laden with chemicals and arranged in foam bricks made of microplastics, then simply being tossed in the trash. The rest of their lives to be spent in landfills & oceans - an ugly end. An insult to the love & celebration they claimed to honor.
Cut flowers do not have to be luxury, but they are—should be—a great responsibility: mass produced flowers are laden with sprayed chemicals (e.g. preservatives) and shipped hundreds, even thousands of miles to distributors where they are wrapped in plastic, before finding their way to shelves in supermarkets and commercial florists. It does not have to be this way - we started our business to prove this.
& purpose.
The HONEYBABY micro-farm & studio is located in rural Manchester, Michigan. It is shared with Malorie’s husband, Drew (from whom comes the appellation “Honeybaby”), a finish carpenter & furnituremaker & Murphy, their beloved 14 year old rescue dog.
We service the entire state of Michigan & always look forward to a chance to travel.