Futral's Urban Farm, LLC

08/08/2023

What's growing at Futral's Urban Farm - August 7, 2023

27/12/2022

🎵Do you want to build a snowman?🎵

11/11/2022

11/11/2022

Everlasting arrangements make great Christmas gifts! Come see what we have to offer. 10 AM to 4 PM, Saturday, November 12, at the Historic Athens Firehall No. 2. (498 Prince Ave. in Athens, GA)

27/10/2022

✨Flower Farmer Pop-Up Market✨Athens, GA✨Save our Date✨check👇🏼for info
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November 12, 10-4pm at the Historic Athens Firehall No. 2 (498 Prince Ave., Athens, GA)
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Join us for this first of its kind, local pop-up market! We have teamed up with some very talented local growers to provide Athens with a one stop floral shopping experience. Get a jump on your holiday shopping with unique gifts and treat yourself to locally grown floral goodness. Bring your ask-a-flower-farmer questions!
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Don’t miss this inaugural flower market, so please save our date. Bring your friends!
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🌟When: Saturday, November 12; 10-4
🌟Where: Historic Athens Firehall No. 2; 498 Prince Avenue
🌟Who: Lisa Gillespie Feng of Peaceful Peasants 💐 Lara Jackson of Wolfsong Flowers 💐 Jenny Derevere of Jenny’s Garden and Design 💐 Emily McCoy of Seed to Petal Flower Farm 💐 Ann Langley of Futral’s Urban Farm
🌟What: Shop for locally grown fresh heirloom chrysanthemum bouquets (weather permitting), dried flowers, handmade wreaths, handmade ornaments, handmade dried flower jewelry, dried flower tea light candle holders, pressed flower frames, flower bulbs, amaryllis planters, and more!

15/10/2022

We may or may not be having fun making your hoco bouquets!!!!!

14/10/2022

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12/10/2022

Here’s a nest that was pruned out of the muscadine vines this past winter.

12/10/2022

Sometimes you find interesting things as you harvest muscadines! Each year I find at least one nest, but keeping them intact is a bit of a challenge. The nest falls apart by itself so you have to prune it out with its supporting branches. 

28/09/2022

08/07/2022

Doublini Lisianthus. ready for drying. These are my favorite flowers. They look like miniature roses.

04/07/2022

10/05/2022

Did you forget Mother's Day??? To be fair it did come early in the month. Make it up to Mom with a double-bouquet of snapdragons ($30). In a rainbow of colors! Send me a private message to order.

29/04/2022

Sometimes well-meaning friends tell me that being a flower farmer is a frivolous venture. Growing vegetables is much more practical. Today, I received this update from a ministry in Ukraine.

"This week was full of ministry, including handing out 120 bags of groceries, unloading humanitarian aid trucks, helping with the personal needs of people in their places, and cooking porridge for civilians. I got the idea of buying flowers for women who received aid from us. I thought maybe it wasn't time for this yet, but when I saw the smiles and tears of happiness of the refugees, I understood that it had been the right decision. One of the women told me: "I want to thank you for everything, for clothing, for groceries, but especially for the flowers -- it is a symbol of hope, mercy and peace." When you hear what people are saying, how hard it was for them to live under occupation or under gunfire or how they evacuated -- and then see the smiles at the flowers and aid, you understand that you are doing the right thing."

So, I am crying - again - as I post this. Not for me, but for the victims of this awful war. How something so fragile and transient can bring hope to those in such desperate circumstances.

19/03/2022

Ok. Change the names of the veggies to flowers and it works for me!

Got spring gardening fever? So do we. That's why this video by TGN blogger Scott Sexton strikes such a chord. Seriously, you should press "play" now!

29/01/2022

Week 4: Sadly, these stems are too short to sell, but not too short for me to enjoy?!

22/11/2021

Week 46 - Since last Sunday, we have planted 340 anemone corms, 300 ranunculus corms, 200 delphinium plugs, 200 belladonna plugs, 1,125 snapdragon plugs, 216 dianthus plugs, 200 strawflower plugs, 150 rudbeckia plugs, 250 scabiosa plugs, 10 peony roots, 50 tulip bulbs, and a flat of pansies. I could not have done it without many wonderful friends - Stacy Madison, Shannon Schussler, David Langley, Jim Hatley, Hiro, Ayume and Mei K.

25/10/2021

Week 43 - The flower season has come to a close for Futral's Urban Farm this year. Many thanks to Brandon and his staff at Lovin Florist for their support, using locally grown flowers in their beautiful bouquets. Lovin is located on the square in Lawrenceville, GA, and they have just opened their second location in Braselton! Mark your calendar for November 13 for their open house at both locations and grand opening in Braselton.

Lovin Florist Lovin Florist Braselton

18/10/2021

Week 42 - Marigolds that look like you’ve harvested buckets of gold.

17/10/2021

My first dahlia! Dahlias are the darling of fall flowers.

09/08/2021

What flower farmers do with six-pointers.

05/04/2021

This old Homestead has been around since the late 1800s. Just the other day I discovered where they buried their glass jars and cans, a common practice before county trash collection. Besides fruit jars, I found old bleach and shoe polish bottles, and a Coca-Cola and ketchup bottle.

Three things come to mind.
1. I am grateful for trash day.
2. I will continue to not only reuse and recycle what I can, but invest in products that last longer.
3. It’s time to buy a bottle tree!

19/03/2021

Caught you, Smidgie! I’ve been making wreaths and garlands from muscadine vines for future projects. I might try my hand at wrapping vines around old lampshade frames. Smidgie, the cat, has other plans for my handicrafts.

16/03/2021

If you're looking for a quick and easy springtime bouquet for your home, here is an idea for you to try. Daffodils, forsythia and the tips of Chinese fringe flower branches in an old jar. It lifts my spirits on this gloomy day. Be sure to strip the lower flowers and leaves off the branches so as not to muddy the water. It also helps to change the water daily. Your arrangement will last longer.