Lilacs!

I know I’m supposed to be working on pieces for our Fall Open House (September 6th through 9th) but I could no longer resist these beautiful lilacs harvested and freeze-dried from my favorite shrub!

Fall Open House Details!

Join us for our Fall Open House! September 6, 7, 8 and 9! Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9 to 5 and Sunday from 10 to 4! Custom designed and freeze-dried wreaths and arrangements, furniture, garden art, original prints, vintage treasures, pumpkins, gourds and fall bloomers! Lunch and refreshments will be served Thursday through Saturday to benefit Trinity Lutheran Church’s Comfort Dog program. Come meet Katie Comfort Dog! Hope to see you! Lots of new treasures and designs!

Passiflora Caerulea

A pretty little bloom from the flower farm to brighten your rainy Monday morning...Passiflora Caerulea!

New Creations!

Some of this week’s creations! Vintage tea pots and milk glass containers spilling over with blooms harvested and preserved from our gardens!

A Sneak Peek!

A sneak peek at the gorgeous blooms in our gift shop...all grown and preserved right here on the flower farm!

Autumn Boutique

Join us for our Autumn Boutique September 6, 7, 8 and 9! Thursday through Saturday from 9 to 5 and Sunday from 10 to 4. Custom designed and freeze-dried wreaths and arrangements! Furniture, garden art, original prints and vintage treasures! Pumpkins, gourds and fall bloomers! Lunch and refreshments served Thursday through Saturday to benefit Trinity Lutheran Church’s Comfort Dog Program. Come meet Katie Comfort Dog!

An Incredible Harvest!

An incredible harvest from the veggie garden today. Ken picked while I processed:

14 quarts of green beans pressure canned 

4 quarts of green beans frozen for Instant Pot recipes

6 quarts of cauliflower frozen

1 quart of ‘Fooled You’ peppers diced and frozen

The tomatoes are finally beginning to ripen. They’re not pretty but they are absolutely delicious! This gorgeous head of cabbage will be sauerkraut but it’s going to have to wait until tomorrow...we’re tired! 🙂 Dinner tonight is a grilled mostly grass fed steak from a local family farm served with cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans and a kale salad from our garden. I am in heaven!

Second Saturday!

We’ve been blessed with a beautiful Sunflower harvest! In addition to our freeze-dry technology we use our Sandvac machine to preserve some of our blooms. The flowers are pre-treated, carefully buried in silica gel then placed in the machine under a vacuum with heat. The result is a flower that looks like it’s been freshly picked from the garden! Tomorrow is our August Second Saturday! Stop by to check out our harvest and see what’s blooming in the gardens! We’ll be open from 9 to 4! Looking forward to seeing you!

Perfect Timing!

Perfect timing! The country sprinkler watered all of our newly planted fall crops in the veggie garden!

Onion Harvest!

Candy, Walla Walla and Red Bull onion seeds sown in flats in the greenhouse on January 30, transplanted into the garden in May and harvested today. We’re estimating well over 100 lbs.!