Casey expresses a passion for gardening, emphasizing the joy of planning a sensory garden during winter. This garden focuses on engaging the senses through touch, smell, and sight, featuring plants like Bunny Tails grass and sweet peas. They highlight the importance of family connection and creativity in gardening, encouraging participation in planning and planting.

Why do I choose local flowers? For me, the answer lies not just in the joy of a blooming rose or dahlia, but in the deeper, uncomfortable truths about the global floriculture industry. It’s about choosing connection over convenience, and ecological stewardship over mass production.

Winter sowing offers an easy, cost-effective method for starting seeds outdoors, mimicking nature’s processes. This technique enhances germination for native plants and requires minimal maintenance. Using simple containers like milk jugs or pots, gardeners can prepare seeds in late winter, encouraging healthy growth while embracing the seasonal shift towards spring.

Outdoor Summer camp in Swanton Vermont for kids. Hands on cut flower farm experience learning about science, nature, soil, and flower arrangements.

There are a lot of exciting things going on at the farm for the 2024 season. What I am most excited for: -Increased Flower Varieties -Revamped No-Till flower bed design -Better no-till and holistic approaches to weed and pest management. -Flowers available at the Painted Lady Cafe in Milton, in addition to our flower stand […]

As I am well into my second year growing flowers, I am blown away with how much I have learned in just one year. Last year everything was so new, and I made a lot of mistakes. This year, I actually know what my flowers look like, and where they are planted in my garden […]

Things are coming along very nicely on the farm this week. Every flower bed has been weeded, and all of my seedlings are finally planted. I am getting very excited for the flowers that should be arriving shortly. The fact that the weather will be in the 80’s this week, really makes a large impact […]

This past week we have been focusing on making natural inputs for our flower farm. I have been inspired by Jenny Love with Love ‘n Fresh Flowers, through her podcast, No Till Flowers, and her website. This week we made two different soil inputs, one for added calcium, and one for increasing the soil microbiology. […]

This month has been busy! We started off with harvesting and processing our tulips and daffodils to get ready for Mother’s Day. I couldn’t have been happier with the success from our bouquet sales. This month we also were able to get our new chickens and bees set up in their new homes. Everyone seems […]

Two weeks away from the summer flower subscription deadline! Now is the time to order a bouquet subscription. You will receive a freshly picked and arranged bouquet delivered to your doorstep once per week for six weeks! On this very cold May Day, I am dreaming of all of the flowers that will be blooming […]

We have almost made it to Mother’s Day Weekend! I am very excited that the farm stand will be out and open for bouquet pick up this Saturday, May 13th. Bouquets will be out at 8am until we sell out! Bouquets will be arrangements of tulips and daffodils and will be $20 each. You can […]

We must receive flower subscription orders for the Mother’s Day deal by May 8th to receive the free flower bouquet. We have one month left to order a bouquet flower subscription for the 2023 summer season! Receive a fresh new bouquet once a week for 6 weeks this summer (July – August). Pricing: Bouquet Subscription: […]

Going into this flower season, I knew that I wanted to go No-Till. I wanted to go this route, for a few reasons; I don’t have a tractor, renting a tiller is expensive and not easy to use while 8 months pregnant, and I know it’s what’s best for the soil microorganisms. However, when looking […]

We are now about three weeks away from Mother’s Day! This Spring is just flying by. I am excited to have things to offer for all of the great moms, aunts, grandmas, dog moms, and just great women of the world. Below are the following options we will have available! Reminder, Mother’s Day is May […]

We had a very busy weekend at the flower farm. We have finally had warm enough weather to get outside, do some bed prep, and yard work. A lot of the focus for the weekend however, has been on getting our chicken coop set up. This year we have decided to get chickens. Not only […]

This video goes through some of the basics on how I plan where to grow the flowers, and how I handle impulse seed buying. I show what the outdoor space looks like in March, and go through the organization process of my spreadsheet. This week has been a huge week for flower subscription sign ups! […]

Blog with some great details for the starting flower grower, on how microbes and soil health impact the plants in your garden. It covers what soil is, what microbes are, and how the ecosystem works together to create beautiful flowers. Also, there is information about my Sweet Pea flowers and their growing conditions.

I am very excited that I am able to start a YouTube channel to share all of the great, and maybe challenging things that are happening at Phloem this spring and summer. It is my first time making YouTube videos, and I still have a lot to learn. However, I my goal is that it […]

The seed starting extravaganza has officially started for the 2023 flower season. I was able to get myself a soil blocker this year, and I used it for the first time today. It is definitely a little more time consuming, but I am excited to be using less plastic, and not having to worry as […]

We are well underway with glorious blooms this summer at the farm. My favorites so far have been the Larkspur. The joy that all of this hard work brings me is remarkable. Larkspur was the first plant I started this season from seed, early March. It is a slow growing plant, that I ever imagined […]