Farm Updates (blog)

Hope you had a great labor day weekend! After a brief holiday, our flower availability for the week is LIVE on our website! Please get your flower orders in early as we know this will be a busy week for us!

We’re getting ready for the first ever Workshop Experience Opening Weekend this Saturday! We’ll be hosting a Growing Fantastic Dahlias Class in the barn at Tiny Hearts Farm (see below to read about the change of venue for this event) and later on a Dahlia Arranging Workshop at the Tiny Hearts Flower Shop.  Although both of these are sold out, we will be announcing a few upcoming classes this weekend!

Alongside our sold-out floral festivities, our supremely talented business neighbors are hosting all sorts of workshops simultaneously.  If you missed out on the one of the few spots for our design workshop, consider purchasing a ticket to one of the FANTASTIC events happening in town.

VENUE CHANGE: This Saturday’s ‘Growing Fantastic Dahlias’ Class Moved to Tiny Hearts Farm in Copake

We’ve decided to move this Saturday’s Dahlia Talk to the barn at Tiny Hearts Farm in Copake! In light of the recent virus numbers in our area that we would feel more comfortable with a little extra ‘breathing room’.  So rather than our flower shop—which could have accommodated 25 people in fairly close quarters—we’ll be giving the talk in our barn at Tiny Hearts Farm, right in Copake!

Please note: There is a Town of Copake public parking facility just a short walk down the road from the farm.  Please plan on parking here and walking to the farm. Click the button for directions to the farm and to see where the town parking lot is located.

Do you have your tickets? Have you pre-ordered your boxed lunch?

Some of you have already signed up for our first-ever Workshop Experience Weekend happening on Sept 11-12. We are now offering BOXED LUNCHES that can be pre-ordered for that Saturday (our busiest day) and created by three stellar local food spots CrossRoads Food Shop, Copake General Store and Roe Jan Brewing Co. Pre-ordering will provide a stress-free way to re-fuel on that Saturday and take full advantage of your day in Hillsdale. CLICK HERE for menu details and tickets for your pre-ordered lunch.

For those who are just learning about this Workshop Weekend, we are excited to announce a whole array of workshops and classes ranging from crafting, writing, history, culinary, dance, to floristry and more. Fifteen workshops led by exceptional experts will happen over two days on Sept 11-12, right here in Hillsdale NY. 

Click Here to see our workshops and classes, as well as more information about boxed lunches. As you scroll through, be sure to click on the links to check out all the details and read about the experts leading these workshops. For your comfort and safety we will be following careful Covid 19 protocols, fully explained in each class description. 

And don’t miss the “Jazz Lunch” lawn concert between the HGS Home Chef and Tiny Hearts Flower Shop!

I may not be the best flower picker on the farm, but put a guitar in my hands and my picking skills improve exponentially! Join me between classes on the porch of the HGS Home Chef from 11:30 -1:30pm for an afternoon “Jazz Lunch.”  Be sure to pre-order your boxed lunch using the link button below and, if you haven’t already done so, sign-up for one of the weekends workshops!

We’re happy to have the great John Menagon on bass and the always swinging David Berger on drums, don’t miss it!

Tiny Hearts Flower Shop Welcomes our New Manager, Diane!

We’ve been preparing for a while for Fanny’s (our previous shop manager) maternity leave and are super excited to welcome Diane Lieux back to the team.  Diane last worked with us as part of our event design team during the busy 2019 season (see above for a picture of one of our installs!) We’re so grateful that she could again join us this September!

We’ve had some great flower successes recently despite the crazy weather thrown at us this season. A gorgeous crop of lisianthus is coming out of the greenhouse this week (that Jenny started from seed way back in January!), our dahlias are earlier than ever (by weeks!), and we’re still picking those beautiful apricot asters that, if you follow us on instagram, you know have been challenging us for years. 

Look out for lots of great new stuff at Tiny Hearts Flower Shop over the next few weeks! We’ve been busily re-merchandising our beautiful little shop and are excited to have some really great products coming in!  Make sure you follow @tinyheartsflowershop on instagram to see updates on when flowers are sent up from the farm, and as we feature some of the new items coming in!

Saturday September 11, 2021; 10:30 – 12:00 for the class;
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM for the arranging workshop

We have two dahlia workshops scheduled as part of the new and exciting Hillsdale Workshop Experience (inaugural weekend September 11th – 12th!) If you want to embark or improve on your dahlia-growing game (or maybe you don’t know what to do now that digging and storage season is coming up!), ‘Growing Fantastic Dahlias’ is for you. Not a grower, but want to get your hands deep into an armload of dahlias? Sign up for our arranging class which will feature a wide array of our gorgeous farm-grown dahlias.

Dahlia Class and Arranging Workshop with Jenny Elliott

Saturday September 11, 2021; 10:30 – 12:00 for the class;
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM for the arranging workshop

When we first opened our flower shop in Hillsdale, the idea was to celebrate all the wonderful local flowers and botanical materials which thrive right here in our corner of the Hudson Valley.  With that in mind, we’d always envisioned the work-room at our flower shop as a place where we could share this enthusiasm with ‘budding’ floral designers; to share some of the tips and tricks we’ve picked up—the hard-earned ‘know-how’—which take away the frustrations of fixing a finicky arrangement, leaving only the joy of arranging with local flowers!

We’re so thrilled to announce the first workshop we’ve scheduled after a hiatus of almost two years!  Join us for a morning gardening talk or for our hands-on arranging workshop where you’ll get to work on creating your own dahlia-centric floral arrangement. We hope you’ll join us for a fun afternoon!