Little Farmhouse Flowers

12/12/2024

🎉She’s a master of customer service! Our own Karissa Monette is the guest on this Friday’s Pro Platform live session. Karissa is sharing the valuable customer service tips and strategies she brings to Little Farmhouse Flowers, Ampersand Bulb Co, and The Tulip Workshop from previous training and work experiences with 2 different Fortune 500 companies. Members can catch my chat with Karissa live on and ask their own questions at noon ET on Friday, December 13. As always, our session will be recorded and shared back to the Pro Library for members who can’t join in on Friday. To learn more or join the Pro Platform, comment “Pro” and I’ll send a link to your messages.🩷

09/28/2024

An accused war criminal was again in the U.S. this week and we let him come. The rest of the world would have arrested him and sent him to The Hague. And he got up in the hallowed hall of the United Nations and he delivered another hate-filled rant, this time saying “every civilian home in Lebanon has a bomb in it.” We let him share this gross propaganda. And then, he went back to his hotel room here in New York and he made a call and obliterated 6 high rise apartment buildings full of civilians in the capital of Lebanon using weapons we gave him. And we’re giving him another 8.7 billion now. He is unhinged gen@cidal maniac. Every b@mbing campaign, every massacre is = to dropping the Zykl@n B in a gas chamber. He is killing on that scale and we do nothing but send more b@mbs. The US is following his path into hell. WE are literally today’s Axis of Evil.
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Dear world, do you even understand what these precedents mean? They mean we are lead by a gen@cidal rogue state whose lies are taken as truth. They mean anything can be said about anyone and used to justify pulling a trigger with impunity. They mean global insecurity for the rest of our lives, our children’s lives, our grandchildren’s lives. We are not stepping into fascism. We are already there. And the U.S. is a partner in it. To the White House: stop putting your press secretaries out to the podium to say “we don’t know” “we’re still assessing” “we asked Isr@el to investigate”. The game is up. We’re done with your bullsh!t. You know exactly where our billions of dollars in tax payer money are going. We all see it every hour of every day in the mutilated bodies of children abroad.
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If the Dems lose the election it will be due to good hearted people who just can’t vote for this anymore. Who can’t stomach being attached to either of the 2 major parties. And they can’t be blamed. Who looks back now and says proudly “I voted for the Holocaust”? But that is precisely what both major parties are saying we must choose.
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We’re not the country we wanted to be.
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In recognition of we’ll be pink here for a while.🩷

09/25/2024

Fall bulbs are arriving soon! We’ve got a beautiful collection lined up and ready for you. Of course we have tulips and daffodils… but we also have these and more! Comment “link” to shop. Continental US shipping.🪻🌷🌰

09/24/2024

Tomorrow on the Pro Platform we are LIVE with Christy Muck of to talk about merchandising. Christy is a talented designer in all aspects- from stunning floral design to curated collections in her beautifully appointed shop. Pro Platform members can join in live on at 10am ET. As always, our monthly live sessions are recorded and shared back to our growing platform of resources for review on demand. And I’ll be in touch later today with members for this week’s Pro Platform weekly video tips! 🩷🌱 Not a member yet? Reply pro to learn more and join us.

09/22/2024

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09/17/2024

Hello! Great news for our domestic US and local flower fans - we're excited to share a newly re-vamped assortment of both bulbs/roots and cut flowers for nationwide shipping or pick up! That's right - We moved our wholesale work to it's own business (Ampersand Bulb Co.) and we're now able to bring the same professional grade flowers, plants, and bulbs to our retail website at www.littlefarmhouseflowers.com . If you've been wanting to try our super high quality flower bulbs and bare roots, sourced from the world's best growers and hybridizers, you can now find some of our favorites in our web shop. We've also added some Little Farmhouse Flowers MERCH to our website. For those who have been waiting: Overnight cut flower shipping has resumed. We'd love to send you or someone you love some fresh flowers!

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05/04/2024

We’ve listed these 4 cut flower daffodil varieties for wholesale with overnight shipping this week for florists gearing up for Mother’s Day. 🌱 Wholesale cut flowers are listed differently than our wholesale bulbs/roots. Let us know if you need access. We will set up overnight shipping rates for you. 💗

05/02/2024

I thought I was going to sort through Karissa’s basket of hellebores and pick out only one stem of each variety. But I didn’t have the heart to let many sit out, so there are a few repeats. 😂 These are so magical. To date- we’ve been collecting a few plants each of many different varieties. We have some younger plants in the field now that will grow to be our wholesale stock. They are still just babies and they won’t flower much this year. We’ll also be able to divide our older plants this fall. 🌱

05/01/2024

Fluff and frills. Daffodil season is in full swing. We had a field trip of 4th and 5th graders here yesterday and they asked what I enjoy most about my job. I told them that I love that I get to do so many different things on any given day. And that I especially love capturing the beauty here through photography. Yesterday was probably one of the weirder flower biz days in my career. Here’s how it went for my position 😅.
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8am team welcome and task assignments, all hands on deck daffodil harvest.
9am zoom with new supplier in The Netherlands about a wide range of new bulb varieties for our wholesale division (announcements coming soon)
10:30am chat with Karissa about how exited we are about new bulb products 🤣
10:45 initiate bank transfer to Thailand for customs broker and wholesale goods that have now arrived in NY.
11am snack break with team
11:30am walk farm and check in with team at work. Make business-y and farming decisions. Send bio to for today’s podcast interview 🌱.
12pm collect daffodils and hellebores for flat lay photos
12:30pm begin flat lay photo session with daffodils (first sesh in a while and it took time to get back in the groove). Reply to random emails with questions about Thailand shipment.
1:15pm swap out daffodils for hellebore spread. (Watch for the images tomorrow 💗)
2pm Field trip tour from . Who saw everything- event the inside of our giant flower cooler (best part), the basement grow room, the processing barn, studio, and of course flower beds.
3pm Rush to pick up our son from school and come back in time to make a quick after school snack and then:
4:30pm hop on a zoom with our wholesale platform web developers with some shipping integration questions.
And that just about rounded out a full day for me. All the while, the team here was equally busy doing their own jobs and tasks after the group daffodil harvest. Amongst them were: tulip harvest and processing, bouquet bunching, wholesale flower deliveries, w**ding, planting and transplanting, inventory count in the cooler, packing and shipping wholesale orders, running our composter, installing w**d barrier, and more.

04/24/2024

I haven’t shared this before. 50% of my first season was a failure. Half of my plants died and didn’t flower. Logic should have made me stop. But it didn’t. I was curious. And now I know: my seeds were likely trash. New business peeps have enough things to figure out. And then others will try to insert themselves into your equation. Here are some “you can’ts” that could have caused me pause but didn’t: “you can’t leave your job and start over.” Watch me. “You can’t have tulips blooming for Christmas.” (From a bulb rep on the phone while I was standing in front of his bulbs blooming on Dec. 20 😜 We’ve since achieved them the first week of December.) “You can’t start a bulb company. You won’t be profitable.” Boom. Call it naive. Call it confidence. Call it whatever you want. And know that I understand that a high degree of privilege and luck also led me to this point. But so did a high degree of not listening to the doubters, the uncreative, the older, “more experienced.” I have enough questions and doubts in my own head. It makes no sense to make room upstairs for more. One thing that I’ve learned in my (albeit relatively) short time in the flower industry (compared to some others) is that there are a whole lot of things that haven’t been questioned or tested or explored and a whole lot of people who move along the path of lowest risk- taking what people tell them at face value without asking more questions. Without trying to figure out how and why things work the way they work. Without considering all the possibilities before them. Without wondering if there might be a different way. Without pushing back and giving themselves the gift of discovery or the freedom to change directions. Or the full time joy of a job that they can both love and be consumed by at the same time. Take a risk. Make it calculated. Your reward is what you learn. And it has value whether or not it turns out the way you want it to. Yep- legit monetary value. You learn what’s possible and what you shouldn’t do again. And maybe you learn something brand new - something that can help others and fill your cup on a whole other level. This is our giant grumpy cat who was returned (con’t below)

04/23/2024

📣Some reminders for our wholesale bulb/root customers (to match the images)
1. Peony root pre-orders are time sensitive. Due May 15. Hard deadline.
2. Tulip bulb pre-orders are open for pre-order reservations from the listed inventory, while supplies last. We still have many options- so hop on it!
3. Daffodil bulb pre-orders are also open. We’ve listed about 20 fancy, frilly daffodil bulbs for wholesale buyers and we have some additions to the list coming soon.
4. New plant alert: Wholesale Ornamental Curcuma bulbs are coming. Thank you for all the requests for help to find them. We’ve planted our first bulbs here and we expect to feel good about listing our initial offering of 8 varieties soon. These plants are pretty awesome: multiple stems per bulb, long vase life, divisible at the end of season like dahlias (but easier!), few pests, long growing season, cultivate in pots or beds, and probably some more I’m missing!
5. (Not pictured) we are working on more types of plants (bulbs/root stock) and we’ll be announcing those as confirmations come in from. Let us know if you’re looking for something.
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Just finding us?
We are a woman-owned cut flower farm in northern New York State. We offer local flowers and educational programs for fellow growers. A few years ago we began importing tulip bulbs for our farm and for growers partcipating in . We had a hunch that we could find some special varieties ourselves and provide the necessary treatments and shipping schedules to help growers with very early successions of forced tulips in the winter time & we were right! We now serve hundreds of farms across the US and Canada through our dedicated wholesale bulb and bare root division. This division of our company is about to get its own brand identity - & we’re thrilled to give it the “bulb company” identity that it needs to better communicate the high quality products and professionalism that our services and goods bring to the industry. If you’re interested in exploring our offerings for your business, comment “wholesale” below & to learn how to open an account.

04/19/2024

🥳Wholesale daffodil bulbs are listed for pre-ordering! Need a buyer’s account for your business? Visit: www.littlefarmhouseflowers.com/bulbordering and fill out our online form to request an account. We’ll help you get started. Let us know if you have any questions. Comment “wholesale” for a direct link.

04/12/2024

This week, a customer told me they didn’t want to recieve any news of our company’s social justice projects.

They said: I don’t get any notices like this from other wholesalers, and I only want to receive info about your products.

I replied that we’re proud that our social justice work sets us apart. We don’t maintain separate marketing lists for people who aren’t interested. And- We’re probably not the right wholesaler for you.

She cancelled her order and that’s perfectly fine. Actually- it’s a relief. We use this phrase for it “Addition by Attrition.” When a follower or customer steps away, they may very well be helping you. Yep, HELPING you. The act tightens your customer base or audience. That means your messages and marketing are stronger and more effective, not weaker and diluted amongst different disinterested buyers.

When I started my company, I did it with a burst of freedom. Freedom from bureaucracy. Freedom from asking permission. Freedom from having to be the right choice for everyone. I chose to develop a brand that IS conscious of what is happening in the world and that chooses to GIVE BACK as much as possible. And- it’s been an incredible journey so far with opportunities opening faster and earlier than I could have ever imagined- all because I chose a direction and added my voice to the industry. I decided not to just “be.” Not to just “sell.” I want our customers to know that we care about the world outside of flowers. That we’re human. That we have compassion. That we are moved to action. So that’s us. That’s Little Farmhouse Flowers.

We’re getting ready to announce an exciting transition for our company, and we’re going to carry over the same care and social justice work that you’ve seen here to that new realm as well. We hope you’ll come along for the ride and if not- that’s OK, too! 😉🩷 photo by

04/06/2024

The situation in Palestine has reached an unimaginable level of crisis and funds are desperately needed.

22 florists, farmers, writers, and artists have come together to create this raffle in the hope of making a difference in the lives of those affected by this conflict.

By entering you have a chance to win two prizes, each consisting of 11 incredible items from the above brands.

Instructions to enter:
1) Donate any amount to the four suggested vetted organizations in our links and
2) Fill out a simple form to enter the raffle. Please visit link in bio for the above links.












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03/29/2024

🎉This week’s Pro Platform videos have been posted to and to our online library of resources for members. Pro Platform members will find:
•the video from our IG Live this week about “managing event client expectations” (for farmer florists) + the follow up Q&A
•a battery powered backpack fogger review and discount code
•a spring rose pruning tutorial and discount code for our online course.
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If you’d like to learn more or join our learning platform, comment “Pro” from your mobile device on any post or story on my feed. 🩷
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Upcoming content:
•spring planted bulbs
•tap water pollutants
•Instagram Reels Tricks
•forcing lily of the valley
•our favorite seeds for direct sowing
•planning for an a la carte wedding program
•Facebook advertising

03/28/2024

Hello! Today’s Pro Platform Instagram Live session is about managing event client expectations as a farmer-florist. 💗 I’ll be live on for members at 12pm ET. Thank you to members for suggesting we share wedding/event content this month as we head into the season. If you’re not yet a member of the Pro Platform, it’s a great time to join. Our membership is $15.50/month or $168 annually (save $18). And includes access to the FULL library of almost 200 tutorial videos on various topics related to growing our farmer florist operation here at Little Farmhouse Flowers. Each week, I share new pertinent videos from the behind the scenes. Each month, I dig deeper into a larger topic in a live format where members can submit questions by email or live during the presentation. These sessions are also recorded and shared back to our resource library with additional links and related documents. Our bank of resources is growing and growing!
This month’s weekly video tutorials include:
•seed packet production (sourcing and printing packets for seed offers)
•flower farm operating manual
•too many products (when the answer to more sales is not more products to sell)
•tips for easy travel to Amsterdam
•touring The Netherlands (a week of day trips for flower farmers and families)
Upcoming posts:
•battery powered back pack fogger (review and flower farm uses)
•rose pruning tutorial
•spring planted bulbs
•tap water pollutants
•forcing successions of Lily of the Valley
Comment “Pro” from your mobile device to join.

03/26/2024

📢Hello, Flower Farmers: Did you get our wholesale peony root memo? It went by email to wholesale buyers yesterday. We added a bunch of stock to our one time 50% off sale 😱 and it is flying. Same day or next day shipping if desired- or we can hold on to your roots a bit longer until you’re ready to plant this spring- let us know with a note at checkout. Our roots are all size 3/5 eyes (or larger). By customer request- they are offered in 5-root bundles. No minimum spend. 💗

03/24/2024

Whelp, winter came back! But don’t worry- we’re still slinging the blooms. Catch our gorgeous tulip bunches this weekend! We deliver a fresh batch twice weekly. You’ll find them in our signature craft paper sleeves and patterned tissue. The sleeve is recyclable and the patterned tissue is compostable 💗.