Lilies are a beautiful flower, that come in many colors, shapes and sizes. They have a long vase life, tall and study stems, which make for great flowers in fresh cut arrangements.
We grow them a few times throughout the season as they are one of the only flowers that can perform under low light AND full sun.
One thing we really want you to know about lilies is that they are poisonous to cats if ingested. And I...
These five tips below will get a week (or more!) from most of your fresh flowers:
Some flowers go bad before others. Instead of throwing the whole bouquet out when a few flowers go bad, simply pull out the bad flowers and rearrange the flowers and greenery into a new, small bouquet, perhaps in a new vase. Also, if you recieve a mixed wrapped bouquet, chances are you recieved some flowers that are already open, and some that are just cracking open. This way...
Today was too close to home. A student fired a gun in one of our high schools here in St. Mary's County. Every evening lately I sit in front of the TV and wonder why and how we got to this point with the violence in schools. And I think about how we are having the wrong conversations with kids. Then this morning, I woke up and checked the weather immediately, as any farmer does, and thought, 'the worst that can happen today is a little snow'. I posted to my...
Setting out to start the farm, I never imagined an article such as the one written by All Ag Media this winter, Wentworth Blossoming with Floral Arrangements written for American Farm Publications. But, I'm glad it's happened. Flower workshops were not something we thought would be important to our small business, but we took a chance, and it's been one of the best ways to meet new customers and provide education about our business (and farming in general)...
Though it's not technically winter yet, the frost has hit here in Southern Maryland, and therefore, we switch over to winter crops. The summer flowers and veggies are killed off by the November (sometimes October) hard frost, leaving the fields looking brown and dreary.
BUT- we have exciting news... We built a high tunnel (pictured below) and over the last week we have been planting thousands of winter and early spring flowers in it.
