True Blue Flower Co.

12/25/2024

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄

A few glimpses of our Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.

We have been treated to a wonderland of frost and plenty of presents under our magical mismatched Christmas tree. No osha reportables from our new nerf guns and only slight ear damage from Dellas new karaoke microphone. Hoar frost has hung heavy on our wreaths making breathtaking beauty. At dusk a monochrome blue hung over our little farmhouse and with the use of a car bumper, I think a new Christmas Eve photo tradition was born.

Hope you’re celebrations are filling your cup this holiday season ❤️

12/17/2024

🌲 The farm stand will is stocked and will have new additions from now until Christmas!

Need one delivered? We will be making deliveries Thursday December 19th and Monday December 23!

Home gathered and grown arrangements add a small touch of cozy thoughtfulness to however you’re spending your holiday ❤️

Stop by the farm stand for a self serve grab and go or order on our link for a front door delivery or pickup in Frazee, Vergas, Perham, Detroit Lakes or Pelican.

https://www.trueblueflowerco.com/store/p/9zw90o4jl5ux81jgfqa0di7g239e2k

12/17/2024

In honor of a beautiful person lost too soon I wanted to share one tiny part of what I know is a impact that spreads further than can even be imagined .

In my brief time with Caitlyn, she was the purest definition a ray of light. Full of brightness, positivity, and vision that reached out and touched anything and everything she came across. If she saw something she liked, she tried it, if she saw something she liked in other people she told them, if she saw something she liked in her community she worked with others to bring it life.
She did this always with an excitement that was palpable.

On a personal level, her light was something so appreciated. She was someone who shared in the busyness of motherhood, owning business, rural life love, and wanting your hometown to succeed. She was ever eager to hop on board to bring a vision at the flower field to life. She was one of my very first farm stand customers, and bought my very first wreath 4 Christmas seasons ago. She injected a little confidence and encouragement whenever it was needed.

Caitlyn thank you for sharing your light in all the ways you did. My heart is broken you are no longer here to share that light though I know it's impact will carry through always.

Caitlyn Jepson

12/17/2024

What a great evening! There wasn’t much teaching involved as these talented ladies had all the creative vision!

The goal of the evening was to create beautiful centerpieces with all locally grown and gathered goods - skipping the plastic and opting for beauty that can be composted or used again. I’d say these ladies succeed!

12/13/2024

12/11/2024

🍻🌲Tonight 12/11 is our wreath workshop at Billy’s Corner Bar!

Spending the evening with group of friends at the bar letting the creativity flow? This might be better than Christmas!

🎄 Can’t wait to see you all at 6 and a big shout out to Billy’s for accommodating! If you’re in having supper feel free to say hi!

12/11/2024

Add a touch of Minnesota’s North Woods to your holiday table with a centerpiece crafted from greenery gathered right here in our native landscape!

Join us to create your own festive arrangement using our materials, and enjoy some practical tips and tricks to use at home. Decorating with native, compostable materials brings a natural, cozy feel to your holiday décor while reducing plastic use—a simple way to bring warmth and simplicity to a season that can often feel hectic and consumption-driven.

Monday, December 16 from 4-6pm in our Elevate Conference Room
All materials, tools, and gloves will be provided.
Hosted by True Blue Flower Co.
Cost: $27

RSVP Required: https://elevateotc.events/winter-greens

12/09/2024

These past few weeks have been filled with all winter Christmas decorating, sugar cookie baking, and ginger bread house making. We have been sledding and ice skating on the pond by our house. Our local communities have also treated us to some extra special holiday memories - we spent the day making greenery bouquets at the Vergas Small Town Christmas, had an evening meeting Santa at Lights in the Pines (or as True calls it the North Pole), and filled up on cookies at St. Paul’s cookie walk (also referred to by True as the cookie factory).

While winter is technically the off season of a flower farmer, there is something I can’t resist about weaving wreaths and gathering greens in this winter season. Gathering bows and branches and all other foraged goods feels therapeutic. To me it’s a meditative reflection, a time to take note of all that has grown and bloomed and gone to seed in the past year. The whole Christmas season is also thick with traditions. On a personal scale every Christmas box I open reminds me of years past, as if the pure joy of childhood christmases got packed into the boxes right with the Christmas Village. The season also holds grand, long standing traditions across many cultures connecting us all the way back Ancient times . Conifers have served as symbol of protection and rebirth. The striking green of evergreens in the sea of white and gray and brown have been used for centuries to get us through the darkest days of the year and celebrate the rebirth of the sun during the winter solstice. Decorating their green bows with dried fruits and dried flowers is a way to mark the increase in daylight and movement back into the fertile and growing time of the year. Pine has also been used in across countless cultures for its medicinal properties - teas, steams, analgesics, and topicals. The ancient spirit of pine is thought to bring about confidence, it clears the mind and opens the chest. It leaves one with feelings of rejuvenations, inner strength, and a refreshed perspective. Bringing evergreen boughs in our homes is more than a “just because” - it is a way we as humans have brought hope, health and rejuvenation into our homes in the deepness of winter of nearly all of time.

Taking time to gather greens and weave boughs grounds me. It makes me feel like I’m part of something larger, something that goes back generations in a season where it is easy to become adrift in the fast paced comparison of gifts and lists. Merging the traditions of the past with some of our more modern traditions is the sweet spot I’m shooting for this winter.

In the balance of building traditions with my family and resting in the “off-season” of True Blue Flower Co. I have just a few more offerings left this season!

-Billy’s THIS Wednesday! Just 4 more spots for our wreath class

-Elevate Centerpiece Workshop Dec. 16 @ 4pm

-Bouquet delivery Dec. 19 and Dec. 23 - preorder a bouquet to be delivered to a loved ones front door!

-Farms Stand open through Christmas with greenery bouquets and a wreath restock coming soon

-Subscriptions are also available for gifts, sign up on our website!

12/01/2024

🌲🌲 I wanted to share a special note of appreciation to Pat at forestedgegallery.

I was privileged to be a neighbor of Pat and Helena and the gallery up until this last year. Better neighbors would be hard to find. Every walk down our road was greeted with a smile and a wave as his tan van passed me by on his way to deliver his beautiful artwork to its next home. I always loved thinking of the unexpecting van with its spots of rust dutifully carrying Pat’s artwork that was more than likely valued more than the van itself.

I think that reflects my experience with Pat and Helena well. So humble, genuine, and true to themselves. If you didn’t know them personally, you might not know all the incredible things they have continually contributed to the community and the world class art they make. This was never something being bragged about by them. It was truly something done by from the goodness of their hearts and for their desire to create.

For as long as I can remember they have donated time, energy, and their beautiful art to so many community causes. When I was young they hosted classes, sharing their love of art teaching us how to blow glass, build bird baths and toad houses. More recently they graciously offered me a space to market bouquets and wreaths and purchasing subscriptions when I was just learning the ropes and just starting out.

Pat and Helena have been one of my biggest inspirations when it comes to creating. Their art does a beautiful job of capturing the feel of nature, Minnesota, and the raw rural landscape in the most beautiful way. The gallery and their home also encompasses so many things that I want to strive for as well - a beautiful setting that serves as so much more than a gallery store. Is a gathering space that showcases so many of the things of natural beauty that make our area and our community special. They take pride in supporting other local artist and I am honored to know them.

I wanted to share the ways Pat has been wonderful neighbor, inspiration, and fellow artist. He and Helena’s continuous gestures of support and encouragement have made a huge impact and should be celebrated as Pat enters hospice care.

12/01/2024

🌲 Small Town Christmas Make and Take Centerpieces was a great time! Huge thank you to the Vergas Community Club for orchestrating the event, Summer’s Design Center for letting us use their beautiful building, all the small business in our community for their better together attitude, and an all the shoppers who make Small Town Saturday a great one!

🗓️ Wed. Dec. 11th @ 6 Wreath Workshop @ Billy’s Corner Bar - 4 spots left, sign up on our Website! https://www.trueblueflowerco.com/store/p/a-touch-of-the-northwoods-holiday-wreath-workshop-billys-corner-bar

🗓️ Mon. Dec. 16th @ 4 Centerpiece workshop at Elevate in Perham - get a step by step guide to making your own Holiday Centerpiece - sign up at elevates website! https://elevateotc.org/event/exploratory-winter-greens-centerpiece/

🗓️ Dec. 19 & 23 Holiday Bouquet Front Door Delivery - preorder to have a bouquet delivered to your loved one! https://www.trueblueflowerco.com/store/p/9zw90o4jl5ux81jgfqa0di7g239e2k

Subscription for 2025 are also available as Christmas gifts! Order now so we can get your certificate in the mail before Christmas!

vergas.community.club Elevate

11/30/2024

🌲 Saturday November 30th!

Find us in Vergas at Summers Design Center for Small Town Christmas for make and take centerpieces today!

The Community Club put together an incredible day for the family! Stop by and check it out!

11/30/24
2-5pm
$25 each
$10 kids jars

Summer’s Design Center

11/28/2024

🦃Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for all of you!

Staying home with my kids while also being able to have a flower farm takes a village. Thank you to the amazing people who have supported our small business through 4 seasons. Family, friends, business partners work crew or even strangers who came together to plant our field this spring-I am so thankful for all the little pieces that come together for our village. Thank you!

11/25/2024

🌲 As a flower farmer I have an excessive amount flower pictures on my phone. Beautiful arm-fulls of cut-flowers from previous summers make it easy to compose love letters to July. Though the allure of summer is unmatched, I feel like the simple delicacy of winter doesn’t always get the credit it deserves. It's as if the white, snow enveloped landscapes allow an undistracted look at the structure of the land. A veil has dropped and suddenly you see things you didn't know were standing in within your view. Naked, stripped down, and bare. I can see every footprint a fox has made and every birch tree the porcupine has left uncovered of bark. An old tree fort typically hidden by leaves and barbed wire from a farmyard long overgrown. The structure that supports the growth of summer pokes through. Summer will come and bring its own awe, but for now I am enjoying winters simplistic, snow-covered beauty. Not waiting and wanting, but living and appreciating.

🌲HOLIDAY OFFERINGS🌲

In an ode to finding the beauty in Minnesota’s winter season, all of our holiday offerings are crafted with Minnesota grown and gathered goods and greens. Our goal is to offer ways to have Holiday Decor that brings a little connection to nature this winter season.

Our next holiday offering is Small Town Christmas Make and Take Greenery Centerpieces at Summer’s Construction. Stop by anytime 2-5pm on Nov. 30th for a grab and go style workshop building a centerpiece from greens gathered and grown on our Minnesota farm. $25 for a quart sized centerpiece and $10 for a kids sized option.

Some of our offerings can be found at
https://www.trueblueflowerco.com

11/18/2024

🌸🌷🫙 Sign up for our 5th summer of subscriptions is open!

2025 subscriptions have a slight change!

We still have an 8 bouquet and a 4 bouquet options but now they’re spread out all season instead of waiting until July!

8 Bouquet Subscriptions run biweekly from of June- September

4 Bouquet Subscription runs monthly from June - September.

This will give you access to all our early flower like tulips and peonies too!

Sign up is available on the website with options for pick up at one of our partner businesses for free or front door delivery within 15 miles for an additional cost.

Anyone who signs up for a full 8 week subscription prior to Dec. 1st will get a holiday bouquet voucher to spend this holiday season at our farm stand which opens this weekend!

https://www.trueblueflowerco.com/store/subscription

11/13/2024

🌲 Join us at Billy’s Corner Bar in Vergas to craft a wreath using our hand-wound grapevine base. Adorn your base with boughs gathered and grown in our own Minnesota landscape. Embellishments of native flowers, pinecones and berries bring the feel of the Nortwoods to your home for the holidays. Gloves, aprons and all supplies are provided for you to enjoy your evening.

🗓️ Wednesday, December 11th

🕰️ 6pm

📍Billy’s Corner Bar, Vergas MN

💲$60 per wreath spot - you are able to share a reservation and work on a wreath in conjunction with another person. i.e. a mother and daughter

🔗https://www.trueblueflowerco.com/store/p/a-touch-of-the-northwoods-holiday-wreath-workshop-billys-corner-bar

The goal of the work shop is show you one way to make Holiday Decor that brings a little connection to nature this winter season. Not only is it simple way to reduce plastics but it also brings in a cozy simplicity to this what can easily become a hectic, consumption driven season

Plastic wreaths, plastic trees, plastic tinsel. It all has to go somewhere after it's served its purpose of holiday cheer. Maybe not this year, maybe not next year but somewhere down the line it has to go somewhere. Buried under ground, washed out to sea, or burned in the air. Nobody's perfect - I'm far from that - but maybe we can be conscious because all change all starts with that.

Billy's Corner Bar and Grill

11/13/2024

11/06/2024

Whether you're early to pull out the stockings and put up the tree or you push Christmas off until last minute we don't judge! We do however want to give you a few dates for your calendar.

We have two greenery centerpiece workshops, one at Vergas's Small Town Christmas inside Summer's Design Center that is a greenery bar style with no pre-registration for $25/centerpiece and $10 for kids Nov. 30 and a little less one on one instruction. The other centerpiece workshop is in partnership with Elevate on Dec. 16 . Preregistration for more structured class is on their website for $27.

https://elevateotc.org/event/exploratory-winter-greens-centerpiece/

The farmstand will open mid November -
Christmas with wreaths and greenery bouquets.

And lastly we are offering centerpiece delivery on Dec. 19 and Dec. 23 as a way to tell your loved ones you're thinking of them even if you aren't able to be with them this holiday season. I'll post this in the coming weeks.

11/05/2024

Add a touch of Minnesota’s North Woods to your holiday table with a centerpiece crafted from greenery gathered right here in our native landscape.

Join us to create your own festive arrangement using our materials, and enjoy some practical tips and tricks to use at home. Decorating with native, compostable materials brings a natural, cozy feel to your holiday décor while reducing plastic use—a simple way to bring warmth and simplicity to a season that can often feel hectic and consumption-driven.

All materials, tools, and gloves will be provided.
Hosted by True Blue Flower Co.
Cost: $27

Preregister at the link below.

https://elevateotc.org/event/exploratory-winter-greens-centerpiece/