Farm Updates (blog)

We have fresh or dried flower arrangements available for pre-order, in perfect sizes for your Thanksgiving table! Pre-order your flowers to be picked up at our Hillsdale flower shop on Wednesday, November 24, from 10 – 4:30, or schedule a home delivery, all online on our website!

For our fresh arrangements, we’re picking gorgeous heirloom chrysanthemums from our greenhouse, as well as flowering kale and seasonal foliage from the fields. Dried flowers have been picked and dried all season long in preparation for this, and include sparkling strawflower, dried marigolds, dahlias, and so much more.

Pre-ordering an arrangement is the only way to guarantee you’ll have local flowers for Thanksgiving – we can’t guarantee that we’ll have any other flowers or bunches available that week. Once the greenhouse is picked through, that is the end of our fresh flower year! 

We’re on Day 4 of the Great Dahlia Dig and will hopefully finish this afternoon or tomorrow morning! Our process begins with mowing the dahlias down, then running our tractor-mounted undercutter to lift them out of the ground. We then follow behind, pulling all that heavy soil off the tuber clumps by hand and cutting off any excess stem, then loading them into crates on the tractor forks.  

Our Thanksgiving decor offerings will be announced this Friday! 

With 2 weeks to go, we’re feeling confident that our beautiful, greenhouse-grown heirloom chrysanthemums will be a dazzling addition to Hudson Valley Thanksgiving tables this year! We’ll be announcing our floral options, both fresh and dried, this Friday (and a couple of workshop announcements, too!) 

Join us for our upcoming dahlia growing class and arranging workshop.

Join us on Saturday, October 2, for a fun and informative day digging into DAHLIAS; with lots of how-to information in the morning session on the farm including: digging, dividing, storage, planting, fertilizing, weeding and (…finally) harvest! Once you’re fully versed in Dahlia cultivation, we’ll have an afternoon arranging workshop at the flower shop where we’ll focus on working with these showstoppers as you design a beautiful arrangement to take home.