2025 Picking Packages from The Farmer’s Garden

The Farmer’s Garden is home to an abundance of flowers and special varieties for use in our on-farm workshops and wholesale floral sales. Sarah has selected many of her favorite flowers in hard to find colors and sought after varietals to fill this magical space. We are excited to be once again offering an opportunity for picking from The Farmer’s Garden by way of “Picking Packages” outlined below. By pre-purchasing a picking package you will become one of our VIBees and will directly support the cost load of spring expenses ahead of opening season. This means you will be helping to cover the costs of compost, fencing, irrigation, seeds, bulbs, staff and more.

How it Works: Picking from The Farmer’s Garden can take place at anytime during our 10+ week growing season from early August to early October. Picking must be done during our open business hours. You are free to fill your one gallon jug with whatever blooms tickle your fancy, with one exception. We will limit the dahlias to 15 stems per each bucket, but you are able to fill the rest of your buckets with additional blooms. You may always wander over to the public gardens to include zinnias, gladiolus, gomphrena, ageratum and sunflowers. This is a wonderful opportunity to fill your house with fresh cut flowers all summer long, in a wide array of varieties. Picking packages make for a wonderful gift for the flower lover in your life. Farmer’s Garden Picking Packages are limited, and will be available while supplies last. Gallon picking jugs from the private garden have roughly a $90 value given the types of flowers grown in that area.

Please note, we are changing the layout of our private garden this year. For the last two years the garden on the left was our public garden and the garden on the right was our private garden. This year, the top half of the former private garden will be added to our public picking area. The bottom half of the former private garden, will remain private. Don’t worry, you won’t be missing out on any of the goodies that you have found in the past years - we are just becoming more efficient with our use of growing space, removing some perennials that are just not cutting it, and changing up planting locations.

The private picking area will be home to the Dahlias, Lisianthus, Mountain Mint, Eucalyptus, Purple Dara, Italian Petunias, Salvia, Phlox, Yarrow, Sedum and many more specialty varieties.

Details to Note:

We are open on weekends with one or two weekday afternoons, starting at the end of July. Private picking occurs during our open picking hours. This year you must be sure to use all your picking jugs in the 2025 season as we cannot roll them into the 2026 season. However, you may trade a picking jug for a pre-cut bouquet from our Sunday Farmer’s market if you are finding that you have too many left towards the end of the season. There are no refunds on our picking packages as we only offer a limited number of them before the season opens as a way of off-setting our spring farm costs. Please be sure you fully understand the picking times and how it works before purchasing. As always, thank you for your continued support of our small colorful farm.