Beaver Creek Blooms

05/26/2026

I've been trialing lending out vessels from my personal collection when doing event work. I have accumulated 85 vintage style clear bud vases in various sizes and patterns. They look so pretty in a small groupings in the center of tables! Shown: Anemone Levante Bianco.

05/19/2026

Come out to our plant sale at Newport Middle School This Thursday the 21st, from 3:30 to 5:00pm. We will have house plants, vegetables, and ornamental plants that students have grown to raise money for the Lincoln County School District Garden Program.

05/02/2026

I will be absent tomorrow at Farmers Market. I had just enough flowers to make up this special bouquet for the sweetest young lady, she was one of my first story time toddlers at the library just 15 years ago. Blinked my eyes and life sure shifted into high gear! I'm no longer toting around puppets and picture books, but I have such great memories of those days!

04/26/2026

Good bye for now tulips, I'll look forward to seeing you again next year! I do love how there is always a new flower to look forward to as each crop finishes. I always have a few people ask each week "did you grow these?", the answer is always "yes!!" The Newport Farmers Market allows vendors to only sell what they grow or handcraft themselves. 💛

04/24/2026

Week Four Spring Subscription Bouquets, what a joy to bring them to your doorsteps! I passed a herd of deer on my way to town, expertly dodged some doozy potholes, at one of my stops a curious little chickadee landed right on my open car windowsill, and I smiled to myself at the end of my route, because now I'm privy to the location of the most whimsical dragon hedge I've ever spotted in the wild! 🐉

04/20/2026

Believe it or not, I've been on the lookout for this plant for a couple of years! Variegated Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum odoratum Variegatum). I'm not embarrassed to say I squealed aloud when I came upon a small collection of these at nursery in Aurora a couple weekends ago. Planted at the base of a humongous cedar in our front yard, I'm hoping they spread like wild!

01/07/2026

Calling all Lincoln County Farmers! Come meet your neighbors and local resource providers at the Meet Your Neighbors event. We are excited to meet new folks and see familiar faces.

The District will be highlighting our Riparian Restoration Program and County wide Noxious Weeds Control Program. We will also be sharing our current efforts to improve water quality and habitat while working also to improve farm infrastructure and management.

12/30/2025

Here’s a fun surprise after my last dreadful post! A picture of our hoophouse is on the cover of OSU’s Small Farms News Quarterly! The Winter edition is available to read online, and has an article highlighting a handful of small Oregon coast farms,
including ours! The full recordings can be found on the “For The Love Of Farming” podcast 🎧

12/06/2025

Thank you to Teagan Moran with Oregon State University Small Farms Program for featuring our little Flower Farm on their For the Love of Farming Podcast. I’m enjoying listening to the new episodes highlighting the Oregon Coast!
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This summer, For the Love of Farming Podcast traveled across Oregon’s coastal communities to sit with five farmers —stepping into the windswept, rain‑soaked world of coastal farming.

Listen HERE https://beav.es/3oQ or on Spotify https://beav.es/3od

🎙️ These conversations reveal the realities of farming in this demanding environment—slow growing seasons, elk pressure, flooding, and isolation from markets—yet also the creativity, resilience, and deep care for the land that define these farmers.
From vegetable and flower growers to livestock producers and multi‑generation families, each story offers a glimpse into what it takes to farm in a place where weather rules and community sustains.

✨ Featured voices include:
Kelly Huckestein – Spring Up Farm (Knappa): 10 years of farming, exploring her farmer identity, and taking a year’s pause from production to focus on infrastructure and reimagine the future.

Ed Johnson – Johnson Brownsmead Farms (Brownsmead): 50 years of tidal floodplain farming, resilience through change, and learning by doing.

Sara O’Neill – Euchre Creek Farm (Siletz): Regenerative grazing, ecological care, and stewarding riparian zones in the Coast Range.

Rita Ruddiman – Beaver Creek Blooms (Seal Rock): Creativity and sustainability through flowers, composting, and soapmaking rooted in place.

Tim Miller – Miller Farms (Siletz): Heritage cattle ranching, balancing life’s detours, and the enduring values of a third‑generation farm.

These conversations are raw, joyful, and deeply human—perfect for anyone who values farming, food, and the diverse stories that shape our communities.

Listen HERE for free: https://beav.es/3oQ or on Spotify https://beav.es/3od