We have officially moved! 2024 was not only the biggest and most successful year for the farm, but we also bought a new farm property in Holderness and moved the entire operation. 7 large low tunnels were constructed before the first snow fall on Thanksgiving and the first tunnel now houses 2600 tulips for the 2025 season.
Other flowers that will go in the low tunnels the first week of March include Ranunculus, Anemone, Lisianthus, Icelandic Poppies and Stock.
May 22, 2024 by
Jessica Saba, Jenn Bakos, Photographer
We were honored to have our flower CSA featured in New Hampshire Magazine this year. A big thanks to Jess Saba and Jenn Bajos for their beautiful work.
The fall/winter months are filled with miscellenous farm tasks, which include dahlia tuber splitting, constructing low tunnels, which house the cold loving bulbs and corms, planting tulips, daffodils and peonies, seed inventory and ordering and organizing the 2025 growing chart.
I enjoy the more restful winter months, especially this year since moving and rebuilding the farm was physically demanding. While the winter break is always brief it is filled with creative vision. I plan out colors for the next year, new varieties to plant and more.
2024 was the second growing season and the most successful season yet. The fields supported 24 straight weeks of the CSA, 8 weddings, Mother's Day arrangements, market bouquets weekly for the Squam Lake Marketplace, room arrangements for The Manor and multiple events.
This year 4 weddings have already been booked with more to come, the 2025 CSA will have a new pickup location, TBD, and we're looking forward to an even bigger year for the farm.
As a little girl growing up in NH, I spent my weekends outdoors hiking the White Mountains and enjoying the forest. I moved to Boulder, CO for nine years. While I found Colorado to be a beautiful place, I missed my family and the forests of the East. It's amongst the trees that my little flower farm was born. The flowers are surrounded by pines, beach, birch and oak on a western facing slope. I hope that my slice of heaven can bring color and a taste of NH to your home or event.
We are a local family in the hills of Holderness growing organic flowers. Our farming practices are designed to leave the land and soil better than we found it. We believe in stewarding the land in order for our future generations to enjoy what is beautiful, our earth.
2023 was a big year on the farm. I spent almost 100 hours on the tractor building 22 additional growing beds. A lot of compost, 40 yards to be exact, and a lot of wood chips were used to build the flower beds.
At the start of the season the soil was unworkable and by the end of the year the soil was beautiful and teaming with life. Every year more compost will be added, the beds will be broad forked, not tilled, and in a few years the land and dirt will be completely transformed and where I want it.
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