Happy Love Month | Seasonal Alaska Grown Dahlia & Fresh Cut-Flower Farm

Welcome to our 6th flower season!

We started with 50 some dahlia plants and a row of sweet peas. Now we are pushing a little over a half acre with new flower crops being tested yearly. So far our most anticipated are the tulips. We only planted 8600 as a test. If we did everything correctly we should start seeing blooms late April well on into May. Think Tulips for Mothers Day!

Tulips we grew in our yard last summer as a test.

Our winter like many of you seemed to start with the great Alaska Earthquake of 2018!

Over here, we had just set up for the Holiday Alaska Chicks Market the night before the quake. Between our home and the show, we had 8 hours of clean up, opened Friday night and all day Saturday. Then Sunday night after the show my daughter and I headed to the Great Lakes Farm Expo in Grand Rapids Michigan. I was gone for 10 days when it was all of a sudden Christmas!

It didn’t start slowing down until mid-Jan only a month ago! Although I have to admit the hight light for my husband and I was the celebration of our 20 year wedding anniversary, you may have seen the photos on Facebook. Other than that it just seems like there hasn’t been much resting going on. I’m not worried though we have a 2-week vacation to Arizona in March!

When you read this newsletter I’ll be heading to Denver for the Association of Speciality Cut Flower Growers conference. Then off to Seattle for the Northwest Home and Garden Festival. This festival is incredible and the best part is I can purchase more Dahlia tubers and fly them back with me. Comes in handy as dahlia tuber sellers don’t like to ship until late spring/early summer. This isn’t all that great for us as we need to start ours indoors at the beginning of March in order to see blooms by July.

Our 2019 farm plan is in place, seed sowing schedule complete, field map configured, farm supplies ordered and the first seeds started and it isn’t even spring yet. It sure feels good to start seeing flower babies though!

I’m feeling accomplished with a lot to look forward to this flower season, including our Flower Shop Market opening in July here on the farm. We’ll be open a few days a week for your summer flower fix. And I can not wait!

And that’s not all, just look at the line up of flower and event-related offerings we have this year.

Our tours consist this year of a Chocolate and BYOwine night, with a hosted flower bar for flower crowns and other flower fun. The other two tours feature a make your own bouquet arrangement and a catered Alaska Grown Meal. All three tours are unique in the respect of the surprises and flower fun we will be having. All three equally memorable and an experience to remember and come back to every year or send family and friends too.

There is a total of 38 tickets left between all three tours. Deadline to get your tickets is April 1st.

2019 Flower Subscriptions:

We are offering on-farm pickup -8 week Flower Subscriptions-for the low price of $290 starting in July. We have 5 out of 20 subscriptions sold. (( PLEASE NOTE this isn’t the same as our business delivery subscriptions we’ve offered over the last several years. Our delivered Business Subscribers pay $359 for 8 weeks, so the $290 is a killer deal.) You’ll need to pick your arrangements up at our Flower Shop Market Stand, off of Innerspringer Loop here in Palmer, by the Alaska State Fair Grounds. You have a choice of either the beginning of the week pick-up or the end of the week. Anchorage subscribers can pick up at Saturday South Anchorage Farmers Market off of O’Malley.