• Farm News

    Alaska Flower Farmer in a New Book

    When I first started flower farming I had a deep personal mission of wanting to share my story of how flowers and farming saved my heart. How their colorful soothing beauty healed and uplifted me. While at the same time I couldn’t get enough of handing bouquets of blooms to smiling customers with voices of praise and awe over the flowers I grow. ( I still can’t)   As my farm bloomed I was already taking some incredible photos with my I-phone but I knew I needed “professional” shots for my website.  This is about the time Amber Lanphier, camera in hand serendipitously appeared eagerly snapping flower pics. Instantly becoming a customer and new…

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    Alaska Flower Farm Coined as being a Boutique Flower Farm

    Without a doubt one thing for sure I know is we grow gorgeous vibrant flowers here. We also gear our entire growing season around our summer dinners, immersive flower retreat, farm walk tours and our little flower stand. The queen of the slow flowers movement, Debra Prinzing of the Slow Flowers Podcast coined my Alaska Flower Farm, All Dahlia’d Up as being a “boutique flower farm” during my podcast interview with her. Although my farm as been referred as being boutique  before I’ve never thought of my farm as being “boutique.”  When I hear this word I think of fancy little buildings full of high end goods and trinkets.  Even this french word…

  • Flower Power

    Stay Flower Happy All Year

    Stay Flower Happy Year Round

    As a professional self-proclaimed flower-freak and farmer I see flowers everywhere I go. I purposely seek them out 365 days a year.  Can you relate? The winter months especially here Alaska can be kind of tricky.  Our local greenhouses are closed for the winter and the grocery store flowers are really not that fresh.  Weekly I eagerly scour the discounted “old” bouquet corner in hopes to find something I can rescue for the dinning room table.  Of course in the summer, May-through 1st. hard frost I’m surrounded by all the blooms I grow here on the farm.  So by the time November rolls around I can hardly wait to start amaryllis for indoor…