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A happy and healthy new year greeting as we enter into our second decade!

January 2, 2022 By luke

We’ve retreated from our daily routine these past few weeks to spend some cherished time with our family and friends…we hope you have, too! It dawned on us that 2022 marks our farms’ second decade in existence and we wanted to take a moment to reminisce and share some of our journey with you, our friends and supporters both new and old! Please enjoy this photo retrospective of our farms first ten years in existence!

Here’s to a happy and healthy new year and many more decades of growth and prosperity!

2011: Year 1 in our first, 1-acre, field in North Salem, NY
A lot of work went into getting up and running – we had a Honda Civic and some friends…no tools, no water supply, no idea how to start a farm! 
In year two we expanded the field, and started growing flowers alongside the vegetables.
Our first farmer’s market!!! We had a logo if nothing else!
We were getting better by year 3, but running out of room and resources at our little farm.
2013 also saw our first few weddings.
In 2014 we moved to Copake – a pretty big jump from 1 to 15 acres!
We bought our first tractor…
…and made ourselves at home! A barn, a borrowed greenhouse, water access, and an agricultural community made all the difference to our growth.
We built our first greenhouse in 2015 (with our first staff and a lot of friends!)…
…added a bigger tractor and a couple of vans to the fleet…
…and kept on growing!
We were a little preoccupied in 2016…
We regrouped in 2017…
…took on 10 more acres, built a second greenhouse…
…did a ton of weddings…
…and, late in the year, decided to open a flower shop (and, at the same time, found out we had baby #2 on the way.) 2017 was kind of nuts. 
The shop opened the following spring…
…and new baby St. Clair was on the job 3 weeks later.
We grew the farm, the team, and weddings in 2019.
Eating corn chips in the field for dinner at 8 pm (aka 2020)
And 2021 was much better…

And now…we’re stepping into a new year and a new decade and have so much to look forward to!

Big plans for the 2022 growing season!

We’ve already started our first seeds for the year and are working on a plan to triple our production quantities, to try to better meet demand in 2022. Even though we don’t exactly know what this year’s growing season has in store for us, we do know that we’ll have copious amounts of flowers to share with you! With a fantastic team assembled, we’re planning for a great season! Look out for upcoming newsletters where we’ll speak with more detail on some of our newest projects including the new “Bulbodome” which houses our tulip forcing experiments, the four production greenhouses we’ll be planting out in a few weeks, and the gazillion seeds we’ll be starting in the near future!

We’ll also be making announcements in the next few weeks about our flower CSA program, our class schedule and other fun happening and events at the farm so please look out for those as well!

Thank you for spending a little time reminiscing with us and for all of your support over the past ten years!! Here’s to many more years and to many, many, more flowers!

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We’ll be bringing these guys to @tinyheartsflowe We’ll be bringing these guys to @tinyheartsflowershop tomorrow - but in tight bud so you can watch them gloriously open and change from coral to (surprise!) an indescribable antique rose shade 💕
Good morning from Tulipland on this particularly n Good morning from Tulipland on this particularly nasty, ice-spitting spring day! We are open @tinyheartsflowershop until 4, with tulips and potted flowering bulbs, to brighten your day!
I just brought the FIRST bunches of anemones to @t I just brought the FIRST bunches of anemones to @tinyheartsflowershop, along with buckets and buckets of tulip bunches! There are also potted hyacinths and tabletop spring bulb gardens! 💕
A big pile of tulips for this sunny Saturday. Melt A big pile of tulips for this sunny Saturday. Melt, snow, melt!
These are strictly from one plant nerd to another! These are strictly from one plant nerd to another! Dwarf Iris ‘Katharine Hodgkin,’ forced in tiny pots, are on their way to @tinyheartsflowershop right now. Unusual, hard to find, ephemeral (these will flower quickly and each flower will only last a couple of days)…and also completely charming. Also at the shop are potted hyacinth that bloom huge and amazing, and mixed spring bulb planters (that each have those amazing little checkerboard fritillaria we all go crazy for!) 
Open 10 - 4 today and Saturday!
We are picking gorgeous ‘San Martin’ this week We are picking gorgeous ‘San Martin’ this week. So far this is my favorite new-to-me tulip this season. If you get out very early on the morning of the first fall frost, perfect-looking dahlias are covered in ice crystals and it’s absolutely breathtaking. This is the tulip version (and unlike frosty dahlias it doesn’t turn to brown mush as soon as the sun hits it! 😂) Orchid purple with an outrageous white fringe that looks like ice ❄️❄️❄️ I know the first few bunches are on their way to @morningstarfarmstore this afternoon, and we’ll be bringing some to @tinyheartsflowershop tomorrow morning!

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