We offer farm tours, gardening classes, and floral design workshops that are all just as seasonal as our farm and flowers! Our hands-on design classes are taught in the workshop of our beautiful Hillsdale flower shop, or you can join us on the farm for a tour or one of our walk-and-talk, flower-specific, ‘Flower Forums’ and learn how we grow. We hope you’ll peruse the scheduled events listed below and join us for a flower-immersive creative experience or a little slice of life on the flower farm!
Spring 2022 Schedule:
Up Jumped Spring: Arranging with Ranunculus, Tulips and other spring ephemerals $125
Saturday May 7, 2022; 11:30am – 1:00pm EST
at the Tiny Hearts Flower Shop in Hillsdale, NY
There is nothing like spring on a flower farm – the gorgeous colors and heady scents of May flowers are downright intoxicating! Surround yourself with spring blooms and get a taste of this magical time on the farm in this flower arranging workshop led by Jenny Elliott, owner of Tiny Hearts Farm. Participants of this hands-on class will create their own arrangements of seasonal, locally grown flowers and foliage, straight from the farm. Jenny will guide you through making your arrangement from start to finish, give tips and tricks for working with the delicate flowers she’s grown from bulb or seed, and provide individual guidance. Flowers and vases are provided, and your arrangement will go home with you!
The Tulip Gambit: Plan now for great tulips $25
Saturday May 7, 2022; 2:30pm – 4:00pm EST
at Tiny Hearts Farm in Copake, NY
The end of tulip season in May is the best time to assess how your tulips did this year and plan for what you can do even better. In this, our first Flower Forum, Tiny Hearts owner and head grower, Jenny, will cover tulip growing basics for field and garden, and go over some planting and harvest tips as well as common mistakes (she’s made them all!) We’ll then collectively talk over how our gardens grew and answer each other’s questions as we head out to the field to take a look at the Tiny Hearts tulips beds. Whether you’re hoping to extend the flowering season, get longer stems, try that gorgeous new variety, or figure out if you should be worried about those leaf spots, we hope everyone will go home with some inspiration and answers.
Dahlia’s Delight: Growing Better Dahlias $25
Sunday, May 8, 2022; 10:00am – 11:00am EST
at Tiny Hearts Farm in Copake, NY
If you want this to be your best dahlia season yet, go into it with a plan! With special emphasis on giving your dahlias a great start, this Barn Talk, led by Tiny Hearts owner and head grower Jenny, will cover the basics of soil prep and planting, as well as what steps to take as your dahlias sprout and grow. After the talk, we’ll walk out to the field to see what’s growing at Tiny Hearts, and answer questions you may have about your own dahlia plans. Make sure you have the knowledge, garden site, and supplies at the ready to have a knockout dahlia year!
Private Event: Cornwall and Millbrook Garden Clubs Farm Tour
Thursday, May 12, 2022; 2:00pm – 4:00pm EST
at Tiny Hearts Farm in Copake, NY
We’re looking forward to hosting the Cornwall and Milbrook Garden Clubs to tour our bustling flower farm and learn about our two most beautiful and fascinating-to-grow flowers, poppies and dahlias! Following a presentation in the barn by owner and head farmer Jenny, tour the fields and greenhouses with plenty of time to ask questions of the farmers, and check out the poppy plantings and the just-planted dahlia fields.
Millbrook/Cornwall Garden Club Members: please enter the password provided by your club to register for this event!
Trade Secrets – Rare Plant and Garden Antiques Sale
Saturday May 14, 2022
at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, NY
It’s been more than two years from our debut showing at Trade Secrets. This is a wonderful event which benefits Women Support Services that we are proud to be a part of. Please join us, here you’ll find all sorts of difficult to source plant materials and other interesting finds to take your garden to the next level. We’ll be armed with tulips, dahlia tubers and all sorts of other goodies. See you there!
The Queen of Flowers: Arranging with Peonies $125
Saturday June11, 2022, 10:30am – 12:30pm EST
at Tiny Hearts Farm in Copake, NY
With their knockout beauty and delicious scent, it’s no wonder that peonies are known as the Queen of Garden Flowers. In this class, learn tips on how to take care of peonies in your own garden, how to harvest peonies for excellent vase life, and how to store stems for use weeks later! Then, make an arrangement using our own gorgeous farm-grown peonies, paired with other June-blooming flowers and foliage, in a vase to take home.
Poppytalk: Secrets to Successful Poppies $25
Friday June 24, 2022, 5:00pm – 6:30pm EST $25
at Tiny Hearts Farm in Copake, NY
Poppies may be the most intriguing flower we grow – mesmerizing and seductive, their beauty stops people dead in their tracks. They can also be challenging to cultivate and make good cut flowers only once their secrets have been learned. Tiny Hearts owner and head grower, Jenny, will walk you through all the oddball tricks of growing and caring for these finicky flowers in all their forms, but with a focus on Papaver rhoeas, or Shirley poppies. From sowing those teeny tiny seeds to harvesting at the right stage, you’ll gain the confidence to try (or maybe try again!) these captivating beauties in your own garden. After the talk, we’ll walk out to see the Tiny Hearts poppy fields in bloom!
