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Simple Leaf Farm

Cut flower farm, cultivating beauty & blooms. Seasonal flower stand • Flower subscriptions • Events

A boutique farm offering Naturally-Grown Food for Your Body & Blooms for Your Soul

06/15/2024

It’s time these little blue beauties had the spotlight! We’ve grown Bachelor’s Buttons, also known as cornflowers, for years but found them difficult to harvest and often neglected them. This year, we got growing and harvesting figured out and are finally enjoying them.

Originally named Cornflower because they grew so easily in corn fields, they also came to be known as Bachelor’s Buttons during the Victorian era because young men would wear them in the buttonhole of their suit when courting women, making the flower a popular symbol of love and availability.

Whether they are part of a wedding boutonniere or a little fairy bouquet, they certainly stand out among the pink, peach, and yellow flowers here on the farm. We love the pop of blue in our bouquets this time of year.

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Wednesday - Sunday

06/14/2024

If I had to choose just one flower to grace my table all the days, I think it would be these peonies. 🩷

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Wednesday - Sunday

06/12/2024

“Wildflowers” are what often attracts people to local flower farms. We often joke that there’s nothing wild about the flowers we work hard to grow.

Wildflowers grow all on their own, wherever they please, finding their own way with or without the help of a seed sower. Our flowers are meticulously planned, carefully planted, and tended by hand for months before they even bloom.

But we get the sentiment, and we love that our flowers are set apart from what you’d get from a typical florist shop. Though our flowers aren’t wild, they are what your grandmother or great-grandmother would have grown in her garden. There’s something special about heritage flowers and greenery. They are reminiscent of by-gone gardens with shapes and textures that often add a whimsical feel.

That’s why we always refer to our flowers as “garden-style.” While we are a full-fledged flower farm, the idea of a garden evokes a feeling of provincial beauty, while still implying the presence of a gardener. We care for each plant—be it flower or foliage—and bring bits of each one together in our bouquets, creating a cohesive variety that can only be found in a well-tended garden. 🌿🪻💕

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Tuesday - Sunday

06/11/2024

We’ve been enjoying a flood of color in the high tunnel. 🩷🧡💛

Ranunculus are cool-weather bloomers so they reached their peak last week. Once the temperatures rise, they stop blooming, so we soaked up every moment!

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Tuesday - Sunday

06/07/2024

After hustling for more than two weeks to harvest peonies, I really enjoyed finally taking a leisurely stroll through our peony field. Taking the time to appreciate the beauty never gets old and I especially loved this quiet moment to capture the beauty. These are my favorite peony variety: Nick Shaylor. Their fluffy petals in the palest blush pink are so romantic, and these ones are extra large and lovely since they were able to grow in the field for so long.

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Tuesday - Sunday

06/05/2024

A flower farming failure?

Most flower farmers would say our peony field is a farming failure. If your measure of success is harvesting and selling flowers, then this peony field is an absolute failure given how many blooms have been left behind.

What this assessment doesn’t take into account is other measures of success.

As a one-woman harvester who also has a full-time day job, I’m unable to harvest 4-5 times a day to cut all the peonies at the perfect bloom stage for selling. Despite this, I have harvested hundreds of stems—more than enough to provide for my current customer level. Should I have more customers? Perhaps, but we do the best we can with the hours we have available.

Even more important to us is the goal of cultivating beauty, in addition to blooms. Peonies grow bigger and more beautiful when left to bloom in the field, so I get the benefit of enjoying our peonies instead of worrying about selling every stem. And others get to enjoy it, too. Being on a busy road, our blooming peony field draws attention to our farm and acts as a beautiful advertisement for our farm.

So, while most would consider this a farm fail, I simply appreciate the beauty. 🩷

06/01/2024

Hello June. Hello Bachelor’s Buttons. Your violet hues give a whole new look to our bouquets in all the best ways. 💜
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These sweet bouquets are available in the Flower Stand today, and .

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Tuesday - Sunday

05/30/2024

We grow so many flowers that I never heard of before becoming a flower farmer. Baptisia is one of them. Baptisia is a perennial with beautiful flowers and foliage. As we began adding perennials to our farm, baptisia was among the first additions.

The baptisia bloomed for the first time last year, but we left it alone because the plants were so small. This is the second year and we have enough for one small harvest. We’re excited to be include a stem of baptisia from our first harvest in our Flower Club members’ bouquets this week. 💜

We can’t wait until the plants mature and we have even more stems to share. And we’ll be adding more plants because I’m not sure I could ever have too much baptisia. 😊

To learn more about Flower Club, click the link in our bio.

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Tuesday - Sunday

05/28/2024

My trusty sidekick spent a lot of time in the peony field with me this weekend. We’ve harvested hundreds of peonies and hundreds more are coming this week.

It’s been a funny year, with warm temps in March pushing the peonies to grow early, then April frost literally nipping some varieties in the bud. Last year we harvested our first blooms on this date, but the peonies began blooming over a week early this year. Last week’s heat wave brought on a lot of blooms and is keeping us on our toes. But I’ll take this funny year any day over last year’s no rain for a month which caused the buds to drip with sticky nectar. 😅

Thanks to my cooler and Digby keeping watch over harvesting (he’s such a task-master!), we’ll have peonies available for weeks to come.

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Tuesday - Sunday

05/21/2024

We love having others enjoy the beauty of our farm and the best way to experience it is by attending one of our Flower Nights on the Farm. These events are a must-do annual event for many of our customers.

We’ve already had lots of interest in Flower Nights this season so we thought we’d answer some questions we’ve been asked recently.

When do Flower Nights begin? We want you to enjoy the full beauty of the farm, so we offer Flower Nights when the fields are bursting with blooms which is usually early August.

When do tickets go on sale? Tickets will be available starting in early July. We always notify our Insider Newsletter subscribers when tickets sales are live before we announce it here. So if you’d like to be the first to know, visit our website to join our email list.

What is Flower Night? Click on the link in our bio to visit the Flower Night page on our website and learn all about these special events! 💐

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Wednesday - Sunday

05/18/2024

Ranunculus season is in full swing! We’re harvesting armfuls of flowers every day! The ranunculus have been blooming in a flood of cheerful colors all week, and we’re soaking it in as much as we can because peony season is just around the corner. Soon, we’ll be bringing in armfuls of blooms not just every day, but every few hours! 🤪

YOU CAN GET OUR FLOWERS AT:

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by special order

GOOD GROUNDS IN ALMONT
Wednesday - Sunday

05/15/2024

It’s almost time for our May-June Flower Club to begin! Every year, we offer monthly 4-week Flower Club subscriptions, during which you can pick up a freshly cut bouquet of seasonal blooms each week from our Flower Stand.

Our Flower Club members are pretty special to us. Because they make an investment in our farm by committing to four bouquets at a time, we return the love with bigger bouquets.

You can treat yourself or team up with a friend to share your subscription. It also makes for a lovely gift to a friend or loved one.

The May-June Flower Club begins May 23, and will start with these gorgeous ranunculus! Be sure to sign up soon if you’d like to become a member. We are so excited for this coming season and we hope to see you around the farm again soon!

Click the link in our bio to sign up. 😊

05/11/2024

Tomorrow we open for the season! We’re so excited to start the season as we open the doors to the Flower Stand once more and welcome old friends and new guests. Whether you’re shopping for Mother’s Day or picking up a treat for yourself, we’ll be offering lots of goodies and gifts, and we can’t wait to see you!

Swipe to see a sneak peek of what we’ll have for sale! There’s something for every mother. 💝

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by appointment/special order

05/10/2024

Dahlias are the star of a mid-late summer garden. When grown from seed, they will be cross-pollinated and you never know what you might get. But you can grow a plant that is “true” by growing them from a tuber or from rooted cuttings. How cool is that?!

While tubers are the most common way to grow dahlias, some people find them intimidating and they certainly aren’t pretty for gift-giving. To solve both problems, we are selling rooted dahlia cuttings. You can mix and match varieties of your choosing and gather them in our cute gift-able 4-pack carriers!

Each cutting is labeled with the name of its variety as well as a ribbon to show what color family it belongs to. Available starting tomorrow at our Mother’s Day Market!

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by appointment/special order

05/09/2024

A fresh batch of candles in seasonal scents to welcome spring and summer.🪻🕯️

We make our candles in small batches with only natural ingredients—beeswax, coconut oil, and essential oils. They make lovely gifts and each have a lovely subtle scent, without any toxic chemicals or harsh fragrances.

Available in three scents: Sweet Lavender, Quiet Morning, and Summer Solstice starting this Saturday!

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by appointment/special order

05/08/2024

The ranunculus are finally starting to bloom! We’ve been anxiously awaiting their arrival, wondering if we’d have any before Mother’s Day. The whites are blooming first, but we expect to have more colors bloom in the next few days. 🩷🧡💛

We’ll have a limited number of bouquets available this Saturday for our Mother’s Day Market, so stop by early in the day if you’d like one!

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturdays 10 am - 2 pm
Or by appointment/special order

05/07/2024

There’s something so romantically old-fashioned about p***y willows.🩶

These will be available for sale in bundles soon at our Mother’s Day Market on Saturday, May 11. We’re counting down the days until we open for the season!😊

***ywillows

05/03/2024

In addition to our new t-shirts, we’ll be offering Simple Leaf Farm hats this year! Available in two colors in the Flower Stand along with other goodies starting May 11 when we open for the season with our Mother’s Day Market. 🧢🌸

04/30/2024

For my 12th birthday, my grandparents gave me a print of a girl holding a bundle of p***y willow branches. It was found in my great-great-grandmother’s home, rolled up in a drawer, unscathed from a fire that destroyed the home. The print was originally an insert in an old newspaper called the Weekly Star: Montreal and has an 1897 copyright in the bottom corner.

It hung in my bedroom for many years, and now it hangs in my living room above our sofa. When asked, “What would you try to save if your house was on fire?,” I always think of this print because of its story and how much it means to me.

I never dreamt that one day I would become a flower farmer and grow my own p***y willows, which allowed me to take my own portrait inspired by this print. 🩶 [Swipe to see the original print!]

***ywillows

04/27/2024

We’re so excited to be offering t-shirts with our new logo on them! It’s been a dream of ours for years to have our very own Simple Leaf Farm apparel to wear and sell, and once we redesigned our logo this past winter it seemed like the perfect time to make the dream a reality! We had so much fun choosing the colors and we can’t wait to wear them this season.

They’ll be available in the Flower Stand starting May 11 when we open for the season with our Mother’s Day Market!

04/24/2024

The peonies will be bursting with blooms soon! Peonies are the star of the show in our May-June Flower Club bouquets, along with lovely ranunculus and other sweet springtime flowers. 💐

Our Flower Club is a 4-week subscription with pickup at our farm every Thursday from May 23 to June 13. You can treat yourself, team up with a friend to share your subscription, or give it as a gift! It also makes a lovely Mother’s Day gift. 💝

You can join via the link in my profile. 😊

04/18/2024

The eucalyptus in our high tunnel have begun to sprout the cutest little branches!🌱

Every autumn, we cut down most of each eucalyptus tree until there is only about a foot of the trunk left. For any botany geeks out there, you might already know that this method of cutting down to promote new growth is called coppicing. Once we do this, the row of eucalyptus looks like a wintery forest in miniature, but by late summer they will be back to their full height of about twelve feet and we’ll have a lush forest of leafy foliage again!🌿

03/20/2024

It’s a snowy first day of spring here, but we’re still looking ahead to the coming season! We were busy during the winter working on lots of new projects, one of which is our new logo!

We wanted to capture the most recognizable parts of our farm with the new designs, specifically our eucalyptus and a view of the farm itself—the view from the road that so many of our customers recognize.

We have new business cards, tags, and a QR code with the new designs, and more exciting things coming soon. 😊

03/06/2024

Hey there, it’s been a while! 👋🏼

We took an unexpectedly long break this winter and it turned out to be a huge blessing. We’re feeling well-rested and ready to welcome a new farm season again!

Just because we took time to rest doesn’t mean we haven’t kept up with seeds and other exciting things! We’ve had seedlings growing in the flower studio since January and the ranunculus sprouts are abundant in the high tunnel. This year, we’re growing twice as many ranunculus as last year and we’ll have lots of new colors to offer! (Swipe to see what these little sprouts will look like in a couple of months 💐)

We’ve been working on a lot behind the scenes and we can’t wait to share them with you soon! 😁

12/25/2023

Lightly, softly the world lies sleeping Heaven bells to earth below Christmas morning children waking To hear the sacred story told Joy to the world, the Lord has come  Ring the bells…ring the bells Emmanuel Ring the bells…ring the bells Emmanuel has come. (Has come)  So join the host of angel singing Glory to the new born Christ Good good news Fills the sky  Ring the bells…ring the bells Emmanuel Ring the bells…ring the bells Emmanuel has come. (has come)  Our long awaited wonderful savior Has come to deliver us out of the darkness And into this marvelous world God has given us light New light. So shine your light  Shine it bright Yeah!

🎶 Ring the Bells ~ Travis Cottrell & Natalie Grant

Merry Christmas, friends! May your day be filled with the wonder of the incarnation, and celebration of the Savior’s birth. ✨

12/24/2023

“For a child will be born for us, a son will be given to us, and the government will be on his shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” - Isaiah 9:6 ✨

12/07/2023

We’ve officially wrapped up the 2023 season! We are so grateful to everyone who supported the farm this year—those who attended a Flower Night, the lovely brides who carried our blooms down the aisle, first-time customers, Flower Club members, and long-time friends. We’ve been blessed beyond measure and hope that our bounty blessed you this year as well.❣️

While the Flower Stand is closed for the season, we are still offering garlic powder if you need a last minute Christmas gift.😉 Just reach out to me and we can arrange a pickup.

We’re already looking forward to next year!

12/02/2023

We’re open today for the last time this year!

We’re down to the last of our Christmas wreaths. We have winter greenery sprays, dried floral wreaths, preserved eucalyptus bunches, lavender, garlic, and our fabulous garlic powder.

Our Flower Stand is toasty warm and full of Christmas cheer. 🎄

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open 10 am - 4 pm

12/02/2023

Eucalyptus is the primary foliage we use to adorn our bouquets during the warmer months, so it only feels fitting to include it in some of our Christmas wreaths as well. Not only do our Blue Hues wreaths bring a festive touch of greenery to any front door, but the cool-toned colors of the eucalyptus branches and juniper berries make it a perfect winter wreath as well, so you can leave it up long after Christmas is over! ❄️

Blue hues wreaths and sprays available this Saturday in the Flower Stand!

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturday 10 am - 4 pm

11/24/2023

The Flower Stand will be toasty warm and open for Small Business Saturday tomorrow! Stop by for Christmas wreaths, dried-flower wreaths, preserved eucalyptus bunches, garlic powder, and more. 🎄

SIMPLE LEAF FLOWER STAND
Open Saturday 10 am - 4 pm

Address

3580 Rochester Road
Dryden, MI
48428

Website

https://www.simpleleaffarm.com/

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I see God in the sunsets and the dew drops. I see Him in the flower petals and the storms. I see Him in the work He has given us and His daily provision. I see Him in the smiles and the tears. I see Him in the people He has brought to our farm and the blessings we can’t begin to count. And, of course, I see Him in the beauty of it all. It’s been an incredible year and we thank you for being part of it. Our farm wouldn’t be what it is without your enthusiasm and support. We are so grateful for you. May you see God in the beauty of your own life and, evermore so in the new year. Happy New Year, friends! #newyearseve #newyearseve2022 #alookbackattheyear #yearinreview #countingmyblessings

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Our Story

Hi! I’m Shelli, the crazy dreamer behind Simple Leaf Farm.

I am an unlikely farmer who wasn't born with a natural farm bone in my body but somehow discovered farming in my soul.⁣ ⁣ Farming, I’ve heard, is more than a job – it is a lifestyle. Admittedly, it’s a bit scary to make a decision that will change your whole life, but for years my life has been molded and shaped to make this decision. 𝐈 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦. ⁣ ⁣ 1. I dream of welcoming people to our farm to rest, behold the beauty of creation, and remember simple joys with gratitude.⁣ ⁣ 2. I dream of bringing joy and smiles to people with beautiful bouquets of soul-nourishing blooms.⁣ ⁣ 3. I dream of feeding my community with naturally-grown produce that is as delicious as it is nutritious.⁣ ⁣ 4. I dream of a renewed connection between farmers and their community—the source of food, the preparers of food, and the consumers of food.⁣ ⁣ 5. I dream of dreams not yet imagined, because this farm was once such a dream not yet imagined.⁣ ⁣ So here I am—a girl with the farm of my dreams and a plan to fill it to the brim and share the bounty.⁣