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Our flowers tell the story of holistic land health.

Mellifera Flowers combines classic cut flowers with locally foraged greens and blooms and shares space with honeybees, livestock, wetland prairie, woodlands, and hay fields.

05/28/2026

Been biking to the flower field most days lately and damn if that isn’t doing wonders for my mental health 🧠 pockets stuffed with seed packets, hori hori clipped to my belt loop, water bottle hanging off my f***y pack. Herons flying overhead, all manner of songbirds calling from the hedgerows, and going slow enough to appreciate the wild phlox and vetch starting to bloom in the ditches. I sure do love this silly little life!

05/16/2026

I think tulips hit peak beauty about 10 days after harvest — these blooms are well over a week old, and I’m captivated by the ways they’ve taken on the patina of age and experience in that time. 🍂 They were harvested, then transported to market, then took a bumpy ride home in my truck, rearranged on a windy day into buckets for workshops, schlepped back to the Cities, picked over and left behind, sat in my cooler for 5 days, and then hauled out for this swan song. They’re not perfect anymore, thank god.

I recently texted about how I love the feeling of small scrapes and bruises after a hard work week. I love feeling *weathered* by my work, wearing the effort of this life on my body. (She responded that she’s feeling a little *too* weathered at the moment, which — fair.)

And I’m remembering a conversation with my stepmom last summer, about not wanting to go down the often-slippery slope of using cosmetic procedures to mask her age, like so many of her peers do. To which I said (she’s an avid antique-er) — of course, wouldn’t you rather a piece of furniture or art where you can see its story?

Anyways, feeling weathered by May in a good way, but check back in in July because my tune might’ve changed. And feeling grateful for the bumps and bruises, the ever-more-plentiful grey hairs, the body that doesn’t move as effortlessly or recover as quickly as it did 10 years ago. What a gift to get a little older and have some things to show for it!

Once-perfect blooms, now perfectly at the end of their lives, from .flora and ✨

Minneapolis florist, Minnesota florist, Minnesota grown, local flowers, farmer florist

05/13/2026

Flower friends, I’m here to remind you that CSA sign ups close in just ONE WEEK ✨ nearly all locations are sold out (thank you, thank you) but there are still a few spots left for our pick-up site!

May is a doozy, but damn I think she’s kinda romantic too, in between the irrigation troubleshooting and aching for rain and living mostly on granola bars and cold leftovers. I’m discovering the new field is absolutely divine at sunset, with the old barn backlit and the treelines gilded. The seedlings are lush, strong, every vibrant shade of green. I can’t quite believe these babies will be all grown up into flowers in just a couple months 🥲

Anyway — if you have buddies in Northeast, I sure would love if you let them know about our CSA. If you’re already signed up, look out for an update email next week! And if you’re mostly just here for the pretty flower photos — thanks for the love, and I think you’re in for a real treat this season 💕

Minneapolis florist, flower farmer, flower CSA, summer flowers, Minneapolis flowers

05/11/2026

✨ create something whimsical for yourself

✨ bring to life the idea that’s been bouncing around your head for days

✨ let nature guide you and ground you

✨ fall in a creek, laugh out loud to yourself, and feel grateful

Minneapolis florist, Minneapolis creative, sustainable floristry

05/06/2026

just a guy who doesn’t grow tulips, feeling very grateful to everyone who does 💐 swipe & sound on for that juicy tulip squeak (tulips are the cheese curds of the flower world)

Minneapolis florist, Minnesota flowers, Mother’s Day flowers

04/29/2026

🤸 Flower friends, I have an ask for you! 🌱

It’s long been a daydream to host a kid-oriented flower workshop. Not kid-friendly, but kid-oriented. Non-linear, playful, and very very messy. I’m dreaming of hammer-printing cards or maybe bandanas. Making mason jar bouquets. Stringing strawflower into necklaces. But as someone who doesn’t live in the Cities and doesn’t have a kid, I need to ask those of you who DO live in the Cities and DO have kids — ✨✨✨ where should I host this kid-workshop?! ✨✨✨

🌻 I’ve been saying it to every friend that will listen — I’m leaning into PLAY in 2026. I also keep saying I’m leaning into taking myself seriously as a business owner, but I’m working hard not to see these two goals as contradictory. Actually, I think they are very much in collaboration.

Imposter syndrome, the shame of feeling perpetually not-good-enough-at-this, is sometimes hard to shake . As my therapist (thank god for therapy) has been telling me lately, shame is an inherently isolating, dissociative feeling. And as my therapist has also been telling me lately, the opposite of isolation and disassociation is CONNECTION and EMBODIMENT. And guess what? Play is kinda the best possible example of those two things. ☀️

So, I want to show your kiddos the magic of flowers — for arranging and giving, but also for smashing and reimagining and investigating. Or, in short — playing, about which kids are actually the best teachers. Any ideas for a kids+flowers space, let me know with a comment or a message or an email, please and thank you and can’t wait to be silly and playful with you 🪩

04/28/2026

🌀 One of the gifts of close relationship to land is the lesson, over and over and over again, when I really need to hear it and even when I really don’t want to hear it, that all life comes from death. Decay and decomposition and returning to compost and earth is critical, it’s cyclical.

Ross Gay reminds me too, in his essay “Joy is Such a Human Madness: Or, the Duff Between Us” — from which comes a phrase I carry around like a talisman … “swirling with the living the dead make”. He’s talking about soil rich with mycelium and microbes. I’m maybe talking about everything, ideas and community and this season and my self.

Instinctually, in Spring I celebrate the aliveness around and in me with a feeling of deep relief. I’m dreaming and scheming and have some starry-eyed hopes for this and future seasons. But Spring is also a revelation of what didn’t survive the Winter. From leaf litter and thawing soil emerge the remnants and the left-behind.

This winter held big change, big grief, big loss. Lots of shedding, of selves and patterns and assumptions. I’m late to the party on reflections re: moving from the year of the snake to the year of the horse, but I think I was just waiting for this moment — spring ephemerals bursting forth amidst rotting logs and scattered bones — to acknowledge the transition.

Anyways, I live within walking distance of this spring fed creek, and I’ve already romped around her braids and boulders a dozen times this month. It’s a divine spot to sit with the magical mess of it all, and it’s where I found this raccoon skull, and my first jack-in-the-pulpit of the season, and a singular marsh marigold making the most of it on a solitary rock.

Anyways, I’m swirling with the living the dead make, and the flowers will be too, soon, and isn’t that something. 🌀

04/22/2026

happy earth day from this grubby little flower fairy — it is simply the deepest joy, the most humble gift, a euphoric pleasure to get to work with the land to coax ephemeral beauty from the churning gritty guts and worms and bugs that make our soil.

while I wait for my little ones to be sturdy enough to get planted out, I’ll be wandering the river valley trails every day singing to the spring ephemerals who remind us — the warmth always comes back eventually, and sometimes the most delicate ones are actually the most resilient 🌱

(I wandered these 2 miles of trail for over 3 hours this weekend — if you haven’t been out yet to marvel at the awakening woods yet this spring, what are you waiting for?! Earth is doing MAGIC out there right now!!!)

04/06/2026

My beloved farm friend Frances of had the scariest day yesterday— her 10 month old pup Juniper was hit by a truck, resulting in a leg injury that either needs emergency surgery or amputation. To give Juniper the best chance possible at still becoming a champ herding dog for Frances’ sheep flock, we gotta help raise the $5k needed to cover the surgery to save her leg and follow-up care!!!

Raffle details—
✨tickets are $10 each, Venmo me at -sully
✨include your name and Instagram (or other preferred contact method), plus which prize number(s) you want
✨raffle closes April 11 and winners announced April 12!

🌱 flower CSA is for Mpls/St Paul area only (check out Mellifera’s website or contact me for CSA details!)
🌱 prizes 2&3 can ship anywhere in the US, so share widely with your networks!
🌱 the sheepskin is bark-tanned, and the goat hide is fat-tanned (egg yolk + smoke) — no synthetic chemicals or harsh treatments. Perfect for babies and pets to snuggle up on
🌱 personal testimony for Frances’ tallow balm — best damn thing I’ve ever used, my hands feel so good and nourished

I love Frances deeply and admire her beyond words for her tenacity, humble knowledge, and commitment to values-based land stewardship. Her dogs Juni and Pippi are more than just dear pets, they’re part of her farm ecosystem, shepherd team, and livelihood. This emotional and financial burden is coming at a particularly hard time for Frances, when she’s already been struggling to cover farm expenses like necessary equipment upgrades and barn/house/vehicle repairs.

Let’s ease a bit of Frances’ burden if we can 💕 donate if you can, or just spread the word — every contribution helps! And send all your love and snuggles to Junebug, the wiggliest wildest sweetest pup!

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