Flowers from the Farm
Unique Bouquets Inspired by Nature,
Grown With Love Just for you!
We are taking a break to (re) design future possibilities for the farm’s flower menu. Thank you for your understanding and we hope to stay in touch.
You can contact us if you would like to be or remain on our Flower Customer List.
Why Flowers from the Farm?
Flowers are picked and conditioned at their best and grown to last in your vase.
You are supporting your local economy and have the benefit of knowing how your flowers are grown, by whom, and where.
Celebrate and learn with us through our Annual Brunch n Blooms events, and custom flower field notes and stories.
Flowers for the birds, bees, and humans! We grow for biodiversity in our fields and our bouquets.
Because everyone deserves a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
Meet your Farmer Florist
Farmer Florist erin with a sampling of early June blooms. Photo by Rob Mcclure
I love sharing how flowers inspire me at our farm and have inspired, delighted, confounded, forgiven, and wowed us through the ages and have been doing so as Hilltop’s Farmer Florista for the past 15 years. As a farmer I can be myself and continue to learn how to be in the world. What I have learned is that art and heart are often left out of the food and farming conversations where policy, research, and formal education hold sway. Flower farming is way to bridge these worlds and bring more beauty into our day in a way that speaks to suspending judgment and just enjoy the moment. Flowers soften the edges of our meeting spaces, balance the science and day to day needs of production with love and celebration. It's quite a regenerative and humble place to be immersed in—all this flower power moving through the landscape. My hope is that the flowers we grew for you this season helped bring more beauty and balance to your day.
A Season in Blooms
Support Sustainable Practices
our flowers are grown for you and our pollinator friends
We work with and are inspired by nature to grow our flowers and extend this commitment to our bouquet design. We do our part to be kind to the Earth and 'first do no harm'.
Flowers and herbs paint the farm landscape, bringing both beauty and balance while serving a variety of ecological functions on our farm- as food for our honeybees and native pollinator friends, as pest managers and companion plants, to illuminate the landscape with color and beauty, and to provide for a diversity of culinary and medicinal uses.
Green floral foam: We don't use it and never will. That stuff is not biodegradable and it contains formaldehyde.
Vases, jars, buckets, ribbons, etc. We try our best to reclaim and reuse as many supplies as possible from our harvest buckets to our vases used for our CSA. The same is true for ribbons and fabric. We're happy to use a sentimental piece of cloth from your wedding dress or re-purpose that old table-cloth from your grandma's kitchen. We also use 100% compostable burlap coffee bags, sourced from Just Coffee Co-op in Madison, that when sized accordingly, make for great bouquet wraps and ribbons. For our CSA, we use quart sized mason jars and instead of swapping out your veggie box, we ask CSA members to swap out your vases. Thrift stores, flea markets, curb-side recon, and dumpster diving: it's all part of the job and our commitment to re-using, recycling, and re-purposing when possible.