10/08/2026
Farewell to another beautiful season, albeit extraordinarily and tragically short.
The dahlias had such a rough season. The wild flooding of July + the constant competitive pressure of weeds made for a tedious harvest. Then our first early frost of mid September took a toll. We always frost earlier in our little valley. But when these flowers were harvested, they were magnificent!
Our summertime zinnia, gomphrena & ageratum field *never* looked better! Such lush & undemanding plants, so grateful for the plentiful blooms both for the store and for our local pollinators. All of the other blooms that contributed to our pretty bouquets gave it their all this year, and what a color show it was! Both of these fields served as pollinator corridors on the farm, providing both food and shelter to our native and migrating bees, beetles, butterflies, bats, birds & moths.
Sorta wish I took more photos. Sorta wish I cut more flowers. But it's one of those things, where you learn something new and you get excited about next year on what you can do better. We always grow more than we need. Flowers on a farm are more than just fresh cut bouquets for the farm store, or posies in the Greenhouse Cidery. They're a part of the bigger picture on how things live and exist in a healthy ecosystem around here, especially on a no spray farm.
I'm going to miss the therapy these blooms provided, but I'm so thankful to have experienced such beauty this summer, what a cool thing to have witnessed.
Another season and year of being humbled by Mother Nature. 🥲
