About Sarah & Storyteller Seed Co.
If you spend any time with Sarah Lacko, it won’t take long before you realize: she sees the world differently. Where others see bare earth, she sees possibility. Where some might rush past a bloom, she slows down and listens. And where most see a garden as a task, she sees it as a story — rich with meaning, memory, and hope.
Sarah is the founder of Storyteller Seed Co., a flower and seed farm tucked in the rolling foothills of Northern California. Together with her husband and two daughters, she has turned twelve acres of dry, forgotten land into a living patchwork of color, poetry, and community. What started as a dream in a journal became a thriving greenhouse, a wild garden of whimsy and intention, and a place that now draws photographers, brides, friends, and kindred spirits from all over.
Over the years, word has quietly spread. A feature in Where Women Create magazine offered a glimpse of Sarah’s greenhouse and her heart for the work. Local television segments have shared a little of the magic that unfolds here, though most of it can’t be captured on a screen — it lives in the soft rustle of zinnias, the laughter of children running through garden rows, the whispered prayers sown alongside calendula and cosmos.
Unlike many flower farms, the blooms here aren’t cut at their peak. Sarah lets them live their full life cycle — from vibrant first bloom to dried beauty — so their seeds can be harvested, saved, and shared. Each seed carries with it not just the promise of color, but a quiet story of resilience, joy, grief, and growth.
She believes every seed holds a story — and that we all have the power to plant something meaningful in this world. Whether it’s flowers for a bride, seeds gifted to a grieving friend, or sunflowers brushing the sky above her daughters’ heads, everything at Storyteller Seed Co. is rooted in love, intention, and faith.
Sarah’s days are filled with soil under her nails, notebooks scribbled with ideas, buckets of blooms, and the daily grace of raising two daughters amid it all. Storyteller Seed Co. is her offering — to her family, to her community, and to anyone who believes that something small can become something beautiful.
This farm is not just a place. It’s a living story. And every story starts with a seed.
From Sarah
This is the story. Forty years in the making.
I’m Sarah, and this is the garden that I built.
It started a long time ago — before I ever knew that this little bit of land would one day be a place I called home.
I’ve been many things in my life, and I’ve been called many things too — from eccentric and thoughtful to persnickety and cold. All of those words, woven into my fabric, have made me stronger, more colorful, softer… a different kind of beautiful.
Every failure a stepping stone. Every setback, a dance.
So this story — everyone’s story — is a garden.
Hard patches. Harsh conditions.
Growing pains. Learning curves.
Sunshine and rain and careful tending.
Growth and greatness and harvesting.
It’s the tiny seed becoming the mighty oak.
The fresh flowers beside the new mother’s bed.
The handful of roses at the weeping widow’s grave.
The celebrations and the trials. The mourning and the making.
The shifting and changing of every season.
It’s a little seed held in a child’s hand, with a mother whispering its meaning and needs.
To grow a garden of whimsy and secrets.
To grow a garden of sustainability.
To grow a community and connection.
To feel the warmth and the coolness of the earth in your very hands — and persevere. Try again.
It’s hurrying grief. Planting joy. Growing hope.
It’s the magic and the miracle of the process.
The story is the seed. And all of us, its storyteller.
So… what story will you grow?
