the first two flower varieties I have germinating this year are the stunners of early summer—Campanula and Foxglove
Seeds arrived! Like Christmas morning over here. I was sweating this one, shipping was super delayed because of COVID outbreaks at the warehouse, so we were cutting it too close for comfort for seeding. But we are in business now! 😅
The first seeds sown of 2021 today! This is going to be a wild ride with this tiny human by my side. I’m in awe of farming mothers, and I guess I’m one of them now? We’ll do our best! 🤞
So happy to share we welcomed into the world a new farmhand! Danny was born on February 27, and we are all doing well at home now. Looking forward to bringing this little guy around the flower fields this summer, we have so much to learn from each ot
Here’s something mesmerizing to stare at this morning...This is ‘Jowie Winnie’ dahlia, still have plenty of her and some other awesome varieties available to order on the website!
Ok folks—Dahlia tuber sales are open on the website! Order now, and we’ll keep the tubers happily stored until planting time in spring. Local pick up in South Minneapolis May 8, no shipping. We have some new varieties available this year,
The ongoing process of creating the perfect farm plan that I don’t end up following perfectly... 🤪
The dahlia tubers are looking nice and healthy in storage! I’ll have a fun variety of tubers available for sale for your gardens this year. Local sales only, subscribe to our email list on our website to get the email update on when the shop go
The seeds have been ordered finally... and after some rest, the time has come where I am once again excited to schlep these buckets around. Our garage isn’t for cars, it’s for flowers 🌻
I’m finally getting into gear and doing my crop planning for the season. It’s a puzzle to map together what to grow, new and old varieties, how much of each variety, where it fits, and the timing of everything. A bit of a moving target ev
Heyyy friends—Big New Years Update! We all know it has been an unreal year. Here in Minneapolis we felt it viscerally. The uprising and pandemic left us all tenderly navigating our place in this community and how to—in the best of our ab
The last event of the season was a fun one! I did wedding flowers for a couple who wanted a joyful, autumnal celebration— making the most of their highly pared-down 2020 wedding. We were able to round up the last of the season’s blooms fo
After months of waiting and tending to the dahlia patch, the satisfaction of these abundant, beautiful harvests feels pretty darn good. But the cold weather is coming in and the plants are slowing down. Yesterday’s harvest was the last big one