Mellifera Flowers

Mellifera Flowers 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.

Last of the light on the longest day ☀️ blessed Solstice from this little slice of field
06/22/2026

Last of the light on the longest day ☀️ blessed Solstice from this little slice of field

✨ Solstice Florals! ✨Three arrangements are made with premium blooms from , , and .flora — 100% locally sourced to celeb...
06/20/2026

✨ Solstice Florals! ✨

Three arrangements are made with premium blooms from , , and .flora — 100% locally sourced to celebrate the magic of Summer Solstice in the northwoods, and assembled in front of an audience of joyfully mooing cows (yes that makes the arrangements more special)

DM to claim a bouq — pick-up from me in Loring Park around 1-1:30pm this Sunday, June 21st, or I’ll deliver to your porch Sunday afternoon for an extra $10-$15 depending on your location ☀️

Arrangement #1 (photos 1&2) — $130
✨feat. Duchesse de Nemours peonies, gorg delphinium and campanula, and a sprinkle of clematis

Arrangement #2 (photo 3) — $110
✨feat. Bartzella peonies (fancy!!), delph, and the prettiest little blue pansies

Arrangement #3 (photos 4&5) — $90
✨fear. Chiffon parfait peonies, the butteriest iris, and sunshiney feverfew

Flowers, and the chance to explore creativity and self-expression through floral design, shouldn’t just be a luxury good...
06/03/2026

Flowers, and the chance to explore creativity and self-expression through floral design, shouldn’t just be a luxury good or experience available only to those with financial privilege. 🌻

So, after many seasons of noodling on how to best implement this idea, I’m leaning in to “done is better than perfect” — Mellifera Flowers has scholarships available for our workshops! And relatedly, a Pay-It-Forward fund where folks with financial privilege can contribute! 🌱

Every workshop offered through Mellifera now has at least Half-Tuition ticket, and as the Pay-It-Forward fund grows, more scholarships (including full-tuition) will be available. To request a scholarship, just fill out a simple application. To contribute to the Fund, check out our shop page, where you can donate at the level that feels best to you. 💛

Scholarship requests will be on a complete honor system — no proof or justification needed. The Pay-It-Forward fund will help fairly compensate me for the labor and materials of running workshops, so Mellifera can offer scholarships with abundance and generosity. I’ll release quarterly-ish recaps of how the Scholarship fund is being supported and used (all anonymous, of course!).

Big gratitude to beloveds who helped me think through the details on how to frame all this, other beloveds who’ve periodically said “Can I pay for someone else’s ticket?”, and for all the examples of folks using sliding scale and scholarship frameworks to make their gifts accessible to all (I especially took inspiration from and ).

💕 Here’s to a new level of floral abundance I get to share with you all 💕

Growings-Ons at Mellifera 🌱 June 1st and the field is nearly full. Would a weekly field dispatch be fun throughout the s...
06/01/2026

Growings-Ons at Mellifera 🌱 June 1st and the field is nearly full. Would a weekly field dispatch be fun throughout the season? It feels a bit vulnerable to show off the field before there’s a single bloom, when everyone is still tender and young and maybe at risk of things going awry. But! I’m proud of these lil guys (I’m one of the lil guys) and guess what, flower farming is mostly staring at things that aren’t flowers yet!

🌱Ornamental kale — a new-to-me crop — looking so robust already and it’s a delight to see the variegation already
🌱I was a little late to the game but the dahlia bug has bitten me and I’m already scheming on what varieties to invest in next season.
🌱Last few years have been strawflower-busts. Here’s hoping for a boom of a season!
🌱 love the statice reaching her rosette over the fabric, I always feel a sense of relief when they finally open up like this.
🌱Direct seeding remains an absolute magic to me, especially when the babies emerge as itty bitty as this jewel of opar ✨
🌱Repurposed baby poultry netting saving the marigolds from voracious rabbits.

7. Cutworms have wrought minor devastation on a few crops this season. Beneficial nematodes should help knock them back 🐛

8. Nothing sweeter to me than seeds clinging onto their seedlings — sunnies are especially prone to it

9. Ok thanks for reading! See ya next week for field notes! Now go put your phone down and kiss some plants! 🌱

Been biking to the flower field most days lately and damn if that isn’t doing wonders for my mental health 🧠 pockets stu...
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!

I think tulips hit peak beauty about 10 days after harvest — these blooms are well over a week old, and I’m captivated b...
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 ✨

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Flower friends, I’m here to remind you that CSA sign ups close in just ONE WEEK ✨ nearly all locations are sold out (tha...
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

just a guy who doesn’t grow tulips, feeling very grateful to everyone who does 💐 swipe & sound on for that juicy tulip s...
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)


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