Beautiful Mess Farm

Beautiful Mess Farm Small farm in Durham, Maine focusing on cut flowers. Farm stand open Sundays, April through September.

Check out our website for more info and follow along here for flower, goat, chicken, horse, and other farm shenanigans!

We have a little sale on our extra bouquets today, along with eggs and dahlia tubers. Hope you’ll stop by!Located on Sno...
05/31/2026

We have a little sale on our extra bouquets today, along with eggs and dahlia tubers. Hope you’ll stop by!

Located on Snow Road in Durham.

The farm stand is stocked with mixed bouquets and other goodies! Because our farmers market got rained out yesterday, we...
05/31/2026

The farm stand is stocked with mixed bouquets and other goodies!

Because our farmers market got rained out yesterday, we’re running a special on our mixed bouquets - buy one, get one half off (2 for $30).

We also have plenty of cuties to build your own arrangement; $5 dahlia tubers; and for the first time this year, we have eggs!

Stop by and grab some flowers for your table, some dahlias for your garden, and some eggs for your tummy!

A little thank you arrangement for our wonderful vets.
05/30/2026

A little thank you arrangement for our wonderful vets.

Let’s talk about all of the awesome, local goodies at the farmers market. I made a pasta dish the other night that highl...
05/28/2026

Let’s talk about all of the awesome, local goodies at the farmers market. I made a pasta dish the other night that highlights just some of my haul from Saturday at the

1. Sauté a diced sweet onion until translucent and then add some garlic and chili flakes (measure with your heart). Local onions and garlic will be here sooner than you know!

2. Toss in some local mixed greens from , along with some cherry tomatoes (Michaela also grows the best cherry tomatoes later in the season). Let them both wilt a bit.

2. Mix in some local asparagus that has been chopped and boiled until just fork tender. Both and Valley View Farm had some delicious looking asparagus!

3. Mix in a bunch of goat cheese from . I used their herb cheese, which adds some great flavor. Don’t skimp on the cheese! Mix this in well with a couple of scoops of pasta/asparagus water. Also mix in some Parmesan and a generous amount of lemon juice.

4. Boil your pasta until al dente and then add to your veggie pan. Make sure to get the ruffly kind!

5. MOST IMPORTANT PART - enjoy your pasta dish at a table dressed with Beautiful Mess Farm flowers 😉

6. Also grab some dessert from one of our amazing sweets vendors like , , , or .

7. Maybe add a bit more heft to your meal with meat from or . Just make sure your partner cooks that if you’re terrible at cooking meat 🙋🏻‍♀️

PS - make sure you’re adding salt at appropriate stages.

Come see us all next Saturday and pick up all of the ingredients for your next farm-to-table dinner!

I got a little more than half of my dahlias planted this weekend and it feels good to make some progress on that task. I...
05/26/2026

I got a little more than half of my dahlias planted this weekend and it feels good to make some progress on that task. I still have a few dahlia plugs (baby dahlias grown from cuttings) to plant, and some tubers that I started indoors. It’s still just a bit too cold for anything with substantial growth just yet, but the unstated tubers will be fine tucked underground.

Here’s how I grow around 500 dahlias.

Right now, I have 14 raised beds for dahlias (I *might* need to build a few more …). Each bed is 3’ by 20’ and I can fit 40 dahlia plants in each. All of my beds were topped off with compost last fall.

Photo 1 - KA’s Mocha Jake - just because I love her 😍

Photo 2 - I store all of my dahlias over winter in plastic tubs with vermiculite. Those get hauled out to the garden in my trusty garden cart.

Photo 3 - I cover my beds with landscape fabric every winter, which keeps the weeds mostly at bay until I’m ready to plant. When I’m ready to plant, I peel that back and give the bed a good fluff and weeding.

Photo 4 - I then use a tape measure to make sure I’m keeping relatively even spacing.

Photo 5 - then I place the tubers on top of the soil at appropriate intervals.

Photo 6 - I then go through and bury each tuber on its side about 4-6” deep.

Photo 7 - Then I dump the extra vermiculite on the beds. In theory, you could dry this out and reuse it, but I have some clay in my beds, and adding vermiculite helps encourage loose, fluffy soil.

Photo 8 - supervising goats are VERY helpful in this process.

And that’s it for now! I’ll keep these beds weeded and watered until our first dahlias bloom in August, making it all worth it.

Are you growing dahlias this year? How do you grow yours without supervising goats???

The flower stand is up and stocked for your Memorial Day flower needs!Our flower bar is stocked with some new faces this...
05/24/2026

The flower stand is up and stocked for your Memorial Day flower needs!

Our flower bar is stocked with some new faces this week, including our hellebores and these frilly geums. Flowers are $1/stem.

We also have some more tulip options for today. Last week, the stand was a bit slow so I didn’t put as many bouquets out. If things are looking sparse, just shoot me a message so I can restock, please?

Finally, we have dahlia tubers! $5/each and they’re ready to go in the ground today. I’m planting mine today, so the selection will keep growing as the day goes on and I have extra.

First farmers market of the season! I still have tons of specialty tulips and I did MIXES thanks to all of your feedback...
05/23/2026

First farmers market of the season! I still have tons of specialty tulips and I did MIXES thanks to all of your feedback.

I also brought along some of our dried flower creations.

Come see me at the until 1:00!

So, this is not my style. Are they gorgeous? Yes. Are they me? No. And that’s ok because they’re not for me.I love a b...
05/19/2026

So, this is not my style. Are they gorgeous? Yes. Are they me? No. And that’s ok because they’re not for me.

I love a big bunch of all the same flowers massed together to show off their beauty. If I’m going to mix and match, there’s going to be a lot of neutrals in there.

But, these are for our subscribers today and I’ve consistently heard that you love mixed bunches. So, I’m trying to do more mixed bunches.

What do you think? Are you team “all one kind” or team “give me all the colors mixed together“?

The flower stand is up and the spring flowers are STUNNING right now. We have our flower bar ready - everything is $1/st...
05/17/2026

The flower stand is up and the spring flowers are STUNNING right now.

We have our flower bar ready - everything is $1/stem. We also have wrapped tulip bunches for $20/each. Don’t overlook the weirdos, especially the fringe and parrot tulips - they’re worth it!

Instagram vs. reality 😂Do you remember the little girl in the movie, Sixth Sense, who had water glasses all over the hou...
05/15/2026

Instagram vs. reality 😂

Do you remember the little girl in the movie, Sixth Sense, who had water glasses all over the house? That’s me. Not because of amoebas (of course), but because I’m constantly misplacing mine.

Ben finally got so tired of me stealing his that he went out and bought me like four of my own. Worked like a charm (well, at least 90% of the time).

Get yourself a partner who problem solves around your quirks once you’ve driven him crazy enough. Also get yourself a partner who makes the house feel special by decorating with leftover flowers 💕🌷🦠

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39 Snow Road Durham
Maine, ME
04222

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