Urban flower farm in Longfellow, Minneapolis.
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Flower workshops have been a really fun addition to our offerings this year. Thanks to everyone who came this week and expressed their creativity through flowers! The weather was perfect and the flower selection was 💯. We have two more chances for fresh flower workshops this season, September 12 & Sept 26 . September is for dahlias, so designs will feature these showstopper local blooms. Bring a friend and join us for an evening on the patio!
September Workshops are open on the website! Join us for a workshop this fall. Learn some floral design basics from Sanna and get your hands on a nice mix of our fall harvest. September is synonymous with dahlias around here, so come make a lovely centerpiece featuring these special blooms. September 12 and 26 are the dates, link is in the bio.
Tomorrow August 15 is our next Open Studio! Come shop flowers by the stem on our patio, 4-6pm. Bring your own vase or we can wrap your bouquet for you in paper. Stem price ranges from $2-$5. Hope to see you!
We hosted a private workshop for a group of friends yesterday. Such a fun experience for a group! The group catered in some treats from and brought their own beverages. We provide the space, flowers, design basics and cleanup! Email [email protected] if you'd like to learn more about private workshops-- pricing, minimums, dates etc. We can offer these during the fresh flower season and also during winter wreathmaking season!
August Subscription starts today! This week features these beauts, a lily called Corcovado. We're dipping our toe into the lily world over here, but what I love about them is that they are huge! long lasting and we can time them to have flowers throughout the summer, which is actually a limiting factor of most flowers. And there actually is a world of colors in them, it's just about sourcing the right ones.
Last call for August Bouquet Subscriptions! I added a few spots to east lake drop site, so swoop it if you'd like to start your flower pick ups next week. A couple spots left at all pick up locations,
Link in bio for sign up.
July doesn't get enough love as a peak flower month, the fields are so lush! Our design studio has been sending out some really lovely arrangements as of late. Delphinium, foxglove, echinacea, zinnias are in prime time. And our steady perennial flowers like cupids dart, yarrow and golden chamomile are coloring the fields. Our website is always open for flower orders, so you can bring this peak garden season inside to enjoy.
came out to take some photos on Monday during our rainy harvest. I love these moody shots. We've never needed rain gear until this season.
Open Studio was fun last week! We're going to offer this more consistently on Thursday evenings for the rest of the season. Tomorrow will be the next one, 4-6pm. Come enjoy the abundance of summer blooms! We're opening up the studio to shop our flowers by the stem. Make your own bouquet or fill a bucket to make arrangements at home. Bring your own vessel or we will wrap your stems in paper, stems range from $2-$5 each. A limited amount of pre-made bouquets will also be available for purchase.
Hello! Flowers are in abundance this week, and we want to get them out into the world! We're opening up the studio tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon from 4-6pm with a make your own bouquet display. Stems ranging from $1-$5. Let your creativity shine and fill your vase with flowers. 💐💐 come on by, won't ya?!
Happy July! This allium patch is my favorite view on the farm right now. A couple things going on this coming week:
-July Subscriptions start July 9&11
-Join our centerpiece workshop on Thursday evening July 11, 6-7:30 sign up on the website!
Meet the Northerly Crew:
Jenna!
Jenna joined us part-time this year! She is switching gears from many years working as a dedicated social worker. Jenna is jumping in wherever we need her, planting, weeding, bouquet making, floral deliveries. She can do it all! She has a really cool special talent of hand lettering. She can write the most beautiful cards, so any chance I get, I have her write en lieu of my chicken scratch. Jenna is quick-witted and her lunches come in the most adorable bento boxes. We love having Jenna around!
Meet the Northerly Crew:
Sarah!
Sarah is in her 3rd season working part time with us. Sarah's experience is in landscape architecture and orchard work--she knows every plant there is. We have all found ourselves saying, 'sarah, what's this?' many times in reference to any plant, bug, plant disease etc. Sarah is always the one saving the helpless plants in the corner I've forgotten about. If you want to talk English cottage garden talk, i.e. Gardeners World or Monty Don, Sarah's your gal. She also knows a lot about NBA and Nordic Skiing. Sarah and I were both the pregnant ladies last season and had baby boys over the winter. Did you know we've had straight pregnancies on our crew for the past 4 years?!
Meet the Northerly Crew:
Molly E!
We have a new Molly on our team this year! Molly E. comes from years of experience working at flower shops. She has really boosted the floral design side of Northerly. Molly has an artful touch and is attentive to every arrangement she sends out. She is good at reminding me to stop and notice how beautiful the flowers are. Molly is also a total goof and can really get me giggling. She can talk deep cuts of Survivor if you want to go there with her (I can't, but I am impressed by the extensive knowledge!)
Meet the Northerly Crew:
Sanna!
Sanna is in her 4th year working with me at Northerly and is involved in every part of the business. She manages the events and floral design and helps run the day to day with me. She is a huge reason I've been able to grow this farm business. She has supported me through 2 seasons of fresh postpartum farming, and she's my go-to for dreaming and scheming. We grew up together in South Dakota, and I'm lucky to spend my adult days with such a fun-loving and kind person. Two things Sanna loves are efficiency and a limited-release chase. So if you want her attention, do a limited release of something, and she'll find the easiest and fastest way to get it. (For example: COVID vaccines, Facebook marketplace scores, child swim lesson sign-ups, mogi's bagels, lotto tickets, you get the idea)
Meet the Northerly Crew:
Marnie!
We're lucky to have Marnie working with us full time this season. She grew up on a farm and orchard in MN that she and her parents still run, called Fairhaven Farm She spent years working in the Hudson Valley on vegetable farms. She's quick on her feet, ready to take on a rodent for the team, can ID any apple you throw at her, and somehow is always covered in more dirt than the rest of us. I love talking farm shop with Marnie, she is the one person I know who has listened to more farming podcasts than me!
Meet the Northerly Crew!
This is me, Molly. I started NF 8 years ago on the city lot in South Minneapolis, which is now where our studio space is located. I had no idea what I wanted the farm to look like then-- I just knew I found a lot of satisfaction in the act of growing flowers and the beauty that comes out of a brown field after a long winter. It became clear to me early on that running a farm business was too hard and volatile for me to handle alone, so I prioritized hiring good people to work alongside. I am lucky to spend my days with a group of fun, positive and hardworking women, and I wanted to do a series of posts today highlighting my amazing crew!
July workshop dates are open on the website, July 11 and 25. Come spend an evening on the patio with us making floral centerpieces with fresh flowers from our farm! Go home with a vase full of gorgeous flowers and the confidence on how to make an arrangement at home.
My favorite view on the farm this week. Golden chamomile, or dyers chamomile. The sweetest little button. These rains so far have been good to us, we have been able to plant all our plots and let the rain take care of all irrigation outside our tunnels. Our perennials are happy, stems are taller and stronger. It's been the complete opposite of the past 3 years, where we have been in drought with terribly hot Springs. I know other farmers in MN have been hit with intense storms this spring and so much rain their plantings have been delayed. And this upcoming week of predicted hot weather and big storms is looming. Hoping the storms go easy on everyone and we can all roll into July with tall green fields. 💚
Vase Subscription this week is so good! Peonies, ranunculus, salpiglossis, ninebark, penstemon. Did you know you can sign up for weekly arrangements from us? We'll style a vase of flowers for you each week and you can pick up at our studio on Thursdays, or we have a delivery option. You want flowers each week, but don't want to fuss with remembering to order all the time? we got ya! This is a great offering for restaurants, businesses and homes! Check out the Subscription page on our website to sign up.
An ongoing offer to keep in mind! In the interest of reducing our waste, we love to reuse vases! If you have received a vase with our flowers, through workshops, arrangements, events etc. you can return them for a $5 credit per vase. This offer is only for vases you have received from us, we aren't accepting all vases.
Just drop your vases off on our patio anytime, with your name, email, and quantity of vases taped on a note. We'll send you a virtual gift certificate. Thank you!
Ranunculus Lovers--It's their moment right now, and they are shining! We have a few options to get your hands on these gems this week. All of our Specialty Arrangements will come with ranunculus this week. Or you can go ranunculus only with our Ranunculus Lovers bouquet. Pick up at NF studio Wednesday-Friday. Check our Specialty Arrangement page on the website for ordering details!
The Hudson farm today, columbine is my new favorite.
What's flowering now on the farm? snapdragons, foxglove, orlaya, ranunculus, allium, cress, nigella, columbine, pansies and agrostemma. This is exciting because there have been years we have had nothing available this time of year. But we have planned over a year in advance to plant overwintering annuals, biennials and bulbs so our May can be this beautiful. It involves a lot of frost cloth, temp and humidity regulation, but all of this is grown without a heated greenhouse.
Sanna hosted the first of our floral design workshops last night. Thanks so much to everyone who joined! It's fun to see a busy patio filled with flower lovers. The spring flowers are so nice right now, the arrangements are stunning. Lilacs, tulips, ranunculus, snapdragons, allium, Columbine and more. We have one more workshop this month you can join in on. Thursday, May 23 from 6-7:30. Sign up on our website!
Thank you for an amazing Mother's Day week! We sent out more bouquets in 1 week than we ever have before--what a great way to break in the studio! My sister-in-law gifted me this candle today as a 'shop warming' and it sent me 😭. Tired and happy this one.
Update on tomorrow's Open House!
We'll be around the studio from 10-2pm tomorrow, come by and say hello! We have 10 additional Mother's Day tulip bouquets available for sale for $45, but other than that, it's pre-order pick up only for tulips. Please check your order confirmation if you selected Laune Bread or Northerly Studio for pick up.
We will have dahlia tubers and merch available to shop tomorrow. And complimentary coffee while it's hot!
First of the Mothers Day bouquets went out today! Pick up is at until 2pm
An interesting backstory of the Northerly/Laune Bread Mother's Day collab —Tiff (co-owner of Laune Bread) and I met in a college class at the U about feminism and farming. So it’s pretty remarkable that nearly 15 years later—we’re just a coupla moms, building small businesses in the same neighborhood to disrupt import superpowers and support sustainable local farm systems. We have been collaborating since both our businesses were in their infancy— some of you remember coming to the garden to pick up your CSA and buy pastries from Tiff and Chris . Local flowers and flours for 8 years and counting!
You have until Wednesday at 8pm to get your orders in! Mother's Day Special on the website.
We're gearing up for a really big flower week! Mother's Day is next Sunday. This is a reminder to get your orders in!
We have a lovely offering of tulips and pastries from that you can preorder on our website. Preorders close May 7, so get your orders in! Also: we've known Laune Bread is special all along, but did you know they were picked for 36 hours in Minneapolis?! So proud of my buddies. This is a great opportunity to try their baked goods if you haven't already!
Florists--we have our availability updated, check it out!
3957 42nd Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN
55406
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Fresh flower season might be over, but we are busy busy with all the fall tasks. Today’s was planting 15,000 tulips 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
Okay today’s harvest is letting us know loud and clear it’s officially dahlia season!! 😍😍
August Bouquet Subscription week 2! We get one cool morning and I’m inspired to go full-on autumn mode! 😁 its never too early in my book! bouquets will be at @dogwoodcoffee for pick up today. Hibiscus, plum sunnies, rudbeckia, bronze fennel, dianthus, cockscomb, celosia, dianthus, explosion grass. Thank you!
CSA bouquets going out today—Blue flowers are hard to come by, and these bouquets have two of the most electric blues! 💙 Forget-me-nots and bachelor buttons. We also have rudbeckia, zinnias, statice, explosion grass, mountain mint, phlox and snapdragon. Pick up @foxwellshoppe @lowryhillmeats and @heathers_mpls today!
Zinnias have arrived!
Friday Subscriptions are headed out on delivery! Find your bouquets @foxwellshoppe @heathers_mpls and Marstal’s front porch (alternate pick up location for Lowry Hill Meats this week, check your email for address!!) These sweet bouquets ingredients are snapdragons, bupleurum, ammi, apple mint, yarrow and statice. Thanks so much!
Bouquet ingredients for this weekend @launebread Peonies, ranunculus, golden chamomile, lady’s mantle, apple mint, raspberry foliage, snapdragons. $25 bouquets, stop by the bakery on Friday and Saturday to grab these gorgeous blooms and some delicious baked goods! 🤩
Our big compost spread for our newly opened land has been delayed several times this season. But tomorrow it’s finally happening! If you have a free day tomorrow and want to come out to Hudson for some exercise, reach out! Bring your wheelbarrow! 😁 We add compost to our newly opened land to amend the soil and add organic matter. I like the top-dress compost method because it’s so nice to plant into fresh compost, and it acts as a mulch to help suppress weeds. After our initial tilling to open the land, we avoid tillage by using permanent beds and top dressing with amendments. Each year we take soil tests to determine what amendments the soil needs and how to continue working on balancing it for the best flower and soil health. @mattmeadmpls documented our compost spread last year. We made quick work of spreading 60 yards!
Okayyyy now we’re talkin’! This is our first season with the Paperpot transplanter and I’ll tell you, it’s thrilling! This farm is all hand tools and human power, and this tool makes quick work of planting 1500 seedlings in a bed. I learned about the paperpot transplanter from veteran grower Joe Schmitt, and because everything he says is gold (if you know, you know) we are incorporating it into our system this year. agrostemma, bupleurem, and ammi planted in tidy rows!
We didn’t plant tulips last fall, and the narcissus is looking to be a solid MONTH later to bloom than last year. This is why we don’t promise specific flowers for anything, every year is so different, we have to just go with the flow and enjoy what’s blooming! So this tiny anemone is the first flower to bloom for us this year. We will have A single bloom for Mother’s Day 😂. We do still have subscriptions available for August and September when the fields will be exploding, so consider gifting a mom in your life a future of flowers!
Our July subscriptions are filling up! We still have some spots for Tuesday @dogwoodcoffee East Lake pick-up, but Friday pick up locations are sold out for July. Don’t worry though! We still have August and September, with space at all pick up locations. Sign up is on the website, our future is full of flowers! 💐💐💐
Gearing up for these busy flower-filled days! My garage is a neighborhood curiosity to those who happen down our alley. A blast of color where you least expect it! We grow all our flowers on 3 different farm sites in Minneapolis and Hudson WI, and then bring the blooms back to my garage cooler and studio in South Minneapolis. There we process bunches for florists, make bouquets, and do our design work. One day our cars will be able to use the garage, but for now it’s reserved for flowers!
Our final subscription bouquets of the season are delivered! Wow, the past 12 weeks have flown by. 😅 we grew more flowers than we ever have, and I’m proud, tired and so grateful to have sent so many blooms out for people to enjoy this year. These bouquets are made up of hibiscus, gomphrena, dahlias, dara ammi, zinnia, sedum, asters, dianthus, and explosion grass. We really loaded them up this week for a final hoorah! So much gratitude, my friends. 🧡
Dr. C's Microgreens Urban Farm
Kipling Avenue
