08/20/2026
🌸 Want to try your hand at the Local Flower Arrangement Competition? 🌸
You don’t need to grow your own flowers to get creative! Our bulk flower buckets are a great way to get a beautiful mix of locally grown blooms and create your own arrangement for the competition. 💐
Our flowers are grown right here at 9th of September Flower Farm in Andover, Ohio, so you can proudly say your arrangement was made with locally grown flowers!
Whether you’re an experienced arranger or you just want to have some fun and see what you can create, grab a bucket and give it a try! 🌻🌸
Pick your flowers. Create your masterpiece. Maybe take the prize!
Message us to reserve a bulk bucket of locally grown flowers for your competition entry! 💐
Calling all flower enthusiasts for Ashtabula Local Food Festival: Harvest in the Harbor's Flower Bouquet Competition!
Ashtabula County grows more than food! Our flower farms and backyard cutting gardens around here are putting out dahlias, zinnias, sunflowers, celosia, and anything else that survived the season right now. We want to see what you can do with them on Sunday, September 6.
Build a bouquet and bring it to the Riverbend Hotel at 10am. One rule: the flowers have to be locally sourced! Grown by you, grown by a neighbor, or bought from an Ashtabula County flower farm. Nothing shipped in from three time zones away please! The Ashtabula Local Food Guide at AshtabulaLocalFood.org lists local flower farms if you need somewhere to start.
Wild and overflowing, tight and structured, all one color or every color at once. There is no house style here! Bring what you would want on your own table!
The winner gets a half day in the treehouse Kosicek Vineyards! Cozy, elevated, tucked in the trees, built for a small group to sit back, sip, and unwind in total seclusion with the vines rolling out below.
We also need people willing to stand in front of a table of bouquets and pick favorites. No floral background required. If you know what you like when you see it, you are qualified for the People's Choice Award!
Date and time: Sunday, September 6 at 10am
Location: Riverbend Hotel
Sign up to compete: https://bit.ly/LocalFoodFestival2026
The Ashtabula Local Food Festival celebrates the 100+ farms and growers working across this county. Some of them grow dinner...and some of them grow the centerpiece!
