Farm Updates (blog)

We’re looking forward to another beautiful week at the flower shop! While we’re still waiting for enough flowers to bloom to be able to list flower availability online for pre-orders, rest assured there will be mounds of gorgeous blooms available at the shop this weekend! (Please note that we’re opening an hour late on Saturday this week – it’s the yearly farm equipment auction in Copake and we’re looking for some gear to get our season started right!) 

Tiny Hearts Flower Shop, early season hours:
Friday 10am – 4pm 
Saturday 11am (just this week!!!)  – 4pm

Pre-orders for Easter and Passover arrangements are now open! Filled with gorgeous, farm-grown tulips, anemones, and ranunculus, these beauties are sure to brighten up your holiday table!

If you ordered dahlia tubers:

All dahlia tubers that were ordered for shop pick-up are ready and waiting for you! Come in anytime we’re open to pick them up at the Hillsdale flower shop. Tubers ordered for shipping will all be send out by the end of this week! Dahlia tubers are no longer available for online ordering, but we still have a few wonderful varieties (the really excellent, reliable tuber producers!) available at the flower shop.

This week on the farm…the waiting game (until the next sunny day!)

It’s been wonderful to have the Hillsdale flower shop open again for the season – we’re really feeling the love and are so appreciative for the support and friendly faces!  Because of three nights of deep freezes and some very cold days, we didn’t open the online shop for pre-orders this week, but please come by this weekend as we’ll have loads of anemones, beautiful tulips, and hyacinth in planters (the apricot ones are new and gorgeous!) and as wonderfully-scented bulb-on ‘cut’ flowers.  Remember, this is also the first week of dahlia tuber order pick ups.  See you at the shop! Tiny Hearts Flower Shop, early season hours: Friday 10am – 4pm  Saturday 10am – 4pm

Video tour of the farm

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May 7th and 9th: Hillsdale Workshop Experience Weekend

We will be teaching our first workshops of the season (yay!!!) on May 7th and 8th as part of the Hillsdale Workshop Experience’s annual Workshop Experience Weekend. There will be lots of workshops happening in and around Hillsdale on all kinds of topics, including some amazing open gardens.

Jenny will be teaching ‘Up Jumped Spring: Arranging with Tulips, Ranunculus, and other Spring Ephemerals’ at the flower shop on the morning of May 7th (the day before Mother’s Day, hint hint!) as well as two on-farm combined presentation/field walks on growing dahlias (Saturday afternoon) and field and garden tulips (Sunday morning.) Tickets are on sale now!

We really hope you’ll join us and are looking forward to a season of many more workshops to come! 

CSA Perks are on the Books!

Our CSA-members-only, farmer-led farm tours are scheduled for Sunday morning, July 3rd, and Friday evening, September 2nd. The tours are free, you just have to sign up at the flower shop when you’re picking up your CSA flowers. We can walk and talk, enjoy some beverages, and bomb around the fields sniffing flowers – it’s going to be fun! 

Sounds great…but you’re not a CSA member yet? Or you haven’t re-signed up for 2022? There’s still time to join us! 

Many thanks to all who joined us for our first weekend of the season last Friday and Saturday! We had so much fun, we’ve decided to do it again! We’ll keep it short and sweet today, because it’s now spring and we’re busy!!! Simply use the links below to browse our flower availability for the week and pre-order anything that you find striking.  And if you don’t get to pre-order, remember, you can always simply pop by our shop and browse in person, we’ll always be keeping the shop well stocked with flowers!

Tiny Hearts Flower Shop, early season hours:
Friday 10am – 4pm 
Saturday 10am – 4pm

How to: purchase flowers in person

• No need to pre-order! Just show up to our Hillsdale Flower Shop anytime we’re open for the week and choose flowers from our display. We aim to stock the store abundantly whenever we’re open, but recommend you stop by early in the week so you can have first pick.

• Remember if you’re a CSA member to bring your card to the shop. When you’ve picked out your goodies, simply have your flowers wrapped at the front counter and swipe your card for payment. Your CSA account balance will be automatically adjusted to reflect your purchase.

• If you’d like to find out how much is left on your card, ask at checkout or use the link at the bottom of this page.

• Make sure you come in the following week for more flowers! That’s it!

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How to: purchase flowers online

• Navigate to https://tinyheartsfarm.com/flowers/ to see a list of all of the flowers, arrangements, and other items available from the farm. Remember, we work diligently to keep this list up-to-date. If it appears on this page, it’s available.

• If you’re not already, be sure to click the big green “Login to your account here” button to log into your user account. Your user account will remember your information and/or identify you as a CSA member.  This will also auto-fill your name and contact information on the checkout page.

• Now for the fun part! Pick out the flowers or arrangements you’d like for the week. If you’d like more information on a product, click on the name of the flower or the picture to view more detail. When you’re ready to make a selection click the “Add to Cart” button to add this to your shopping cart.

• When you’re finished shopping, click the “View Cart” link. You can click the small shopping cart found in the top menu to access the shopping cart. On the “Cart” page, you can make any necessary edits to your order and then proceed to the “Checkout” page by using the “Proceed to Checkout” button.

• At the “Checkout” page, your name and contact details should be auto-filled (please enter them if they haven’t…). If you’d like to have flowers delivered to someone you can also click the “Ship to a Different Address” box and enter their information along with a personal note.

• Under the “Your Order => Shipping” section please make sure to select “FREE – Store pickup” or “Delivery.”

• Schedule your “Flowers Ready By” date by choosing a date on the calendar. Please note that the dates available change depending on the shipping selection. For example, the “FREE – Store Pickup” option will only allow pickup on the days the flower shop is open. Delivery orders are available even on days when the flower shop is closed.

There’s Still Time to Join CSA

This is just the beginning of a long and floriferous season! Join us to watch the whole season of flowers unfold, from spring ranunculus to fall dahlias, and everything in-between.

Tiny Hearts Farm Flower Shop in Hillsdale, NY will be open this weekend for the first time this season! We are loaded up with beautiful tulips from our greenhouses, pussy willows from the fields, and pretty indoor flowering plants that will make you feel like spring is finally here. This weekend’s hours are:  

Friday 10am – 3pm  Saturday 10am – 4pm

Special notes for CSA members:

2022 members: Your CSA cards were mailed out earlier this week! If your card doesn’t arrive by the time the flower shop opens this weekend, you are still able to use your CSA account to get flowers – just give us your name and we can look up your new card number. We hope to see you!  

2021 members with remaining balances: You’ll receive a new card and CSA number in the mail because we swapped out our old system for a better one! Please note that you’re able to use your 2021 balance towards a 2022 CSA membership.

Not a member yet? You can still sign up! Keep scrolling…

The greenhouses have been full with much more than tulips! We’ve been forcing muscari, crocus, amaryllis, and hyacinth this year, and you’ll find them all at the shop this weekend. Super tall willow branches, too!

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Video Highlights from the Farm

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There’s Still Time to Join CSA

This is just the beginning of a long and floriferous season! Join us to watch the whole season of flowers unfold, from spring ranunculus to fall dahlias, and everything in-between.

We’re being told to expect a 6″ snow dump on Saturday…not exactly what we wanted for our flower shop’s 2022 opening weekend! That’s ok – we’re just going to push the opening back a little. So our new OPENING DAY IS FRIDAY, MARCH 18! The bright side of the date change is that you can expect even more flowers – tulips, willows, forced potted spring flowers, and more!

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Tulips are THIS Close

All these pictures were taken in our greenhouse THIS WEEK! That means that with sunny days and warmer weather forecast for next week, we’re hoping to have our flower shop loaded up and even to send out the first pre-order list of the season!

Oh…and did someone say WILLOWS? We’ve been cutting hard and will have four big, beautiful varieties coming soon!

Bulbadome Update!

With a fresh concrete floor poured, it was time to focus on environmental controls this week. Luke and Phil installed a big sliding double door, hung the exhaust fan, and cut holes in the metal sidewalls for air-intake louvres.  This is so cool air will move through the house on sunny days, and it’s all therrmostatically controlled to maintain the ideal temperature range. Once the wiring was finished, we were able to move plants in! Crates of tulips were wheeled right out of the cold storage side of the building and into the greenhouse side – THIS is what the Bulbodome is all about. Cool, right?

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CSA Welcome Packages

We’ll be mailing CSA cards out this week to those of you who have already signed up. In the packet will be instructions on how to use your card online or in-person at our Hillsdale flower shop. If you haven’t joined already, there’s still time to sign up!

With construction projects ongoing, efforts to grow more flowers earlier, and staff on all year for the first time, this winter has been busier than ever. A lot goes on behind the scenes to bring flowers to market in our tough northeast climate!

Keeping Us Busy, Greenhouse Construction

It felt like a huge milestone to get plastic on the Bulbodome this week…Luke and Phil have been working for months on this Frankenstein of a building to get ready for this step! Plenty of work to do still until it’s move-in ready, but we now have a huge, 125′ covered, temperature-controlled storage space directly connected to a 50′ heated greenhouse…ideal for storage and forcing of bulbs!

Tiny Hearts Flower Shop: Magazine Perfect and Opening Soon for 2022!

We’re so proud that our beautiful little flower shop has been deemed magazine-worthy once again, this time in the March/April issue of Flower Magazine! This beautiful article, by renowned garden-writer Tovah Martin with photos by Kindra Clineff, celebrates our poppy obsession that spills over from the farm to the shop every summer. 

We’ll be opening for the 2022 season on Friday, March 11, with fresh-cut tulips, pussy willows, flowering spring plants, and more!

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…and Don’t Forget About CSA!