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Busy Bea Florals, Edmonton, AB (2025)

02/23/2025

2 days until our rebrand launch and 1 day to enter the draw to win a custom hand tied dried bouquet!🌻

I shared about the first 2 years of farming in the last post and I thought I'd continue the story here!

Collin and I (Josephine) are both from Edmonton and while we loved northern Alberta and the beautiful boreal forest we both missed our families and community and decided we wanted to settle down close to home. We were trying to figure out next steps when Collin had the idea to call up Maryann at who I had met a few years before. In our first ever conversation, she invited me to come live on their farm. Turns out she really meant it and they were just completing finishing touches on a garage loft suite, so we moved in and got to work in 2022!

Maryann and Kevin were so generous with their space and resources. They let us work up a new market garden in their pasture, use their tractor, and hang flowers to dry in their beautiful barn loft. I learned a lot about what it takes to build community from them.

While we could have stayed at Good Note forever, we came across the farm we now call home the next spring in 2023. It had everything we'd been looking for and we couldn't pass it up. It is 6 acres right on the boundary of Blackfoot Recreation area, south of Elk Island National Park. The soil is dark, and sandy and there was already a small, but significant garden and greenhouse to work with.

We gardened at both Good Note and the new farm that summer which was a lot of work only made possible thanks to our friend and farm apprentice, Jacob. He split his time between our garden and helping out with everything else going on at Good Note. We increased the size of our garden pretty organically and I really started to find my voice in dried flowers!

Every time we have moved it has been from places that were hard to say goodbye too. What a gift to be surrounded by people and places that feel like home wherever we go ❤️

02/22/2025

3 days until our rebrand is launched and 2 days to enter the draw to win a custom dried flower bouquet! 🌻

The rebranding process feels like a great time to reflect on the how and why we ended up where we are! Many of you may also be new here, so it's a nice opportunity to do a little introduction.

Hi! I'm Josephine, artistic generalist and full time farmer. My partner, Collin, and mom, Susan, are also on the farm and a big part of making this whole thing work, but you'll mostly hear from me as I do a large share of the growing and arranging work.

I started out farming in 2020 through the Apprenticeship Program with my farm mentors at near Grande Prairie, Alberta. They have a big market garden and a whole array of livestock. It was such a great opportunity to learn about all kinds of farming work and get experience with producing at scale, fixing all kinds of farm problems, and sticking it out through any conditions

I enjoyed it so much that in 2021 Collin and I sold the house in Edmonton and moved into a skidshack at the Homestead for a second year of growing that we called "Apprenticeship 2.0". Collin worked off farm, while I worked at the Homestead, but with some extra time and space in their garden to grow crops of my own. That turned out to be flowers! Since we were so busy doing other farm work during the growing season I decided to dry them and the rest is history! Here we are heading into season 5 and we are growing more dried flowers than ever 🏵️🌸💮

They may have started out as a convenient, high value, storable crop, but I soon realized that dried flowers allowed me to have a creative outlet too! Coming from a background studying music at University and exploring a wide variety of pursuits such as writing, drawing, and fibre arts it was something I was missing while focusing on producing food alone. I would always make pretty bunches of kale and chard when prepping for the farmers market, so it was a small jump to arranging flowers.

Come back tomorrow for part 2 of the farming journey: moving home to Edmonton and finding a place of our own!

02/20/2025

To celebrate our farm getting a whole new look we are doing a little giveaway! The winner will receive a custom hand tied dried bouquet. These arrangements need no water and can last a couple of years 🏵️💮🌸

You have until 5PM on February 24 to enter. A winner will be announced the next day, which just so happens to be the day we will launch the rebrand!

To enter, like this post and tag friends in the comments for additional entries. To be eligible to enter you must live in the Edmonton area for delivery, or be able to meet me in town or at an upcoming market. Unfortunately we don't ship this type of arrangement yet

02/19/2025

Something new is blooming! 🌱

We've been planning a big rebrand for a while now. It's taken a little longer than expected (as good things often do) but we're finally ready to launch. Stay tuned this week for the transformation!

This big vase arrangement was put together for the album release show of the wonderful last fall. The album, Songs to a Wild God, was the soundtrack in the workshop while it was created. What a great way to get inspired ✨

01/06/2025

It is nice to be back in the workshop with the wood stove going after some solid time off at the end of December. We will still be away on a little road trip adventure for the last couple weeks of January and then back to regular markets and some cool new things in February 👀 🌱

I had to take advantage of the warm winter light this afternoon to show off some dried bouquets that will be included in a restock for that I'll be dropping off tomorrow (Jan 7). If you could use some locally grown, everlasting blooms to brighten your space in the dark months, stop by their wonderful shop to browse. There will be large and small hand tied arrangements and an assortment of wholesale bunches 💮🌸🏵️

12/06/2024

Details from bridal florals for N+C earlier this fall featuring a delicate, botanically dyed silk ribbon and lots of texture 😍

12/03/2024

Thank you to everyone that came out to see us at multiple markets over the weekend! It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and to get a little Christmas shopping done ourselves 🎄

This week we have lots of events going on! There are still spaces in our joint wreath workshop with - check out the link in our bio to sign up for that.cafeteria is so cozy and you will go home with something similar to the wreath in this photo, but with fresh fragrant BC greenery 😍

We also have 2 markets lined up! Friday evening you can find us at for a mini market hosted by and Saturday we are back in St Albert for the Christmas Market

11/18/2024

We've added a couple more market dates in before the New Year! ☃️

Swipe right for more details on the events or visit the market pages to see other great vendors that will be there

11/14/2024

Dreamy sunrise bridal bouquet from a mountain wedding this fall 🌄

Dried flowers are a great way to make your life easy when you're traveling to the mountains for your wedding celebration. They can be made up in advance and last for ages. No wilting or fading, just stunning local flowers any time of year 🤍

11/12/2024

Join us at on December 11 from 7-9PM to make a dried floral wreath!

This workshop will include your choice of a willow or metal wreath base, a wide palette of our locally grown flowers to work with and a box for storing your wreath. We will have all the tools you will need, but if you have a particular ribbon you'd like to use or a favourite pair of shears you are welcome to bring them along! Sign up at www.busybea.ca or visit the link in our bio ❄️

10/31/2024

What flowers are best for drying? 🏵️🌸💮

This might seem like a simple question, but there are sooo many options for good drying flowers and some are more obvious than others. We have over 70 varieties in our garden and almost all of them go straight onto the drying racks!

🏵️We grow many everlasting varieties that have papery blooms even when they're fresh like strawflower, and winged everlasting (1st pic) and tons of statice (4th pic). They are the building blocks of most of our dried arrangements and look like they're straight out of the garden when dried properly

🌸There are lots of ornamental grasses and seed pods that dry so well too! Some of our favourites are bunny tail grasses (2nd pic) cloud grass, and seed pods like flax and poppy. They provide so much interest to dried arrangements and look great on their own

💮Some flowers, like Yarrow(3rd pic), don't look like they will dry well but yield great textures and colours! Every year we do some experiments with new flowers to dry. We've started drying more zinnias in the last couple of years thanks to one of these experiments. This year we tried scabiosa which was really successful and we also added some new grasses to the lineup. Not every new variety works out though. Rudbeckia and snapdragons were both experimental dried flowers this year and neither turned out very well. That doesn't mean we won't try them again, but you won't find them in any bouquets this winter!

10/30/2024

Just a couple days until our next market. This time we're in Beaumont for

We've had some folks asking if we will be bringing back the glass, flower filled Christmas ornaments and the answer is yes! We will have some available starting this weekend and the cute little vials too

10/24/2024

Something new is coming to this weekend! A limited number of extra large dried bouquets in some favourite colour palettes including prairie sunset and toasty neutrals

Looking forward to seeing all of you nature nuts at this fun, thematic market! 💚

10/23/2024

How long will my dried flowers last?

We get this question all the time and it really depends on how you care for them!

Indoors, and out of direct sunlight, it is totally reasonable to expect a year or two out of your dried arrangements

Things to remember:

🌼The sun's rays make dried flowers fade faster, so a bright, sunny window or your front door may not be the ideal location for longevity of your arrangement

🏵️Low humidity environments are best. Some flowers are not well suited for places like a bathroom, so ask us if you are looking for recommendations of dried flowers that can withstand more moisture

🌸Dried flowers aren't forever! They last sooo much longer than fresh flowers, but they still have a life span. It is important to us that we don't spray or treat the flowers with any chemicals. This means that they can simply go in the compost when it's time for a refresh!

Do you have any more questions about getting the most out of your dried flowers?

10/18/2024

Here's everywhere you can find us from now until Christmas!
You can always send a message or fill out the form in our website to get custom orders for pickup at a market or for delivery, or you can come and browse what we've dreamed up ✨

October 26 -
November 2 -
November 9-10 -
November 23 -
November 30 + December 1 -
December 7 -

10/11/2024

All ready for the pop up at this weekend

We love working with them all year round, stocking dried flowers in the winter and seasonal fresh blooms in the summer. We are really looking forward to spending some time in the shop and meeting you all. Stop by and say hi to your local farmers!

Saturday 10-5
Sunday 11-5

10/08/2024

We are now doing preorders for dried flower centrepiece jars for pick up or delivery on Saturday, October 12

Our current colour options are :

1. Autumn meadow
2. Dark and moody
3. Light and airy

Send us a DM to order one of these colour palettes or we can come up with something custom! You can also come check out a wide variety of our arrangements, wholesale bunches, and garlic braids at our pop up at all weekend!

We will be set up there
Saturday 10-5
Sunday 11-5

10/04/2024

We are excited to announce that we will be doing a pop-up at for two days next weekend!

Along with the dried hand-tied bouquets that we usually keep stocked at the shop, we will be bringing an array of dried wholesale bunches, wreaths, fresh eucalyptus shower bundles, garlic braids and more! Stop by to pick up a host gift, centerpiece, or autumnal decor and browse the rest of the shops beautifully curated selection too 🍂

Here are the details:

Maven and Grace
9601 82Ave
Saturday, October 12 - 10-5
Sunday, October 13 - 11-5

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