07/26/2024
BREAKING NEWS!
Or maybe not 😜…either way wanted to let my fellow flower friends know that I will FINALLY be at the Long Prairie Farmers Market TODAY (Friday July 26th) from 2-5:30!!
Hope to see some of you there 😉
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BFFF in Long Prairie, MN is a specialty cut flower farm growing unique varieties from Apr-Oct.
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Check out our website to learn more about our on farm events, upicks, or to order floral arrangments. Back Forty Flower Farm is a family owned small scale specialty cut flower farm that specializes in growing a variety of quality blooms for our local community during the growing seasons in Central Minnesota.
07/26/2024
A wonderful night with wonderful flower friends 💐 Thanks Sprout MN for hosting!
We had a wonderful time learning about local flowers at the bouquet making class this evening. Brianna from Back Forty Flower Farm showed us the importance of local flowers. What a colorful event!!
07/25/2024
Pretty in Pink 🤩
Week #3 for summer subscriptions!
I have a handful of extra bouquets in the flower fridge. If you wish to grab one self serve style, you can pay $25 via Venmo or cash at pick up 💐
07/25/2024
Harvesting these beauties for tonight’s floral arrangement class!! 🤩
You can still sign up at : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/floral-arrangement-and-design-tickets-928629565027?aff=erelexpmlt
07/24/2024
Blue flowers are hard to come by unless artificially died….
These blue delphinium are showing off, and I’m just wondering why I didn’t start growing them sooner! 🤩🙌
07/24/2024
🌻🌸🌾 Back Forty Flower Farm Mini Session booking link is now live!👇🏼
https://michellemckelveyphotography.pixieset.com/booking/flower-farm-minis
Snag your spot! I’d love to see you there ☺️
07/23/2024
Join Us for a Floral Arrangement and Design Class!
Date: July 25, 2024
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Sprout MN, Little Falls
Are you interested in learning the art of floral arrangement and design? Join us for an engaging and hands-on class where you’ll discover the secrets of creating stunning floral displays.
What You Will Learn:
• Basic principles of floral design
• Techniques for arranging flowers
• Tips for selecting and caring for flowers
• Creative ideas for various occasions
How to Register:
Sign up here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/floral-arrangement-and-design-tickets-928629565027?aff=erelexpmlt
to secure your spot!
We look forward to seeing you there and sharing the beauty of flowers together!
07/23/2024
Congratulations Brooklyn Levin! You won a UPICK voucher for this year’s first Upick season on the farm!
Thank you so much to all of our flower friends for sharing and commenting on our post last week!
Open UPICKS will start Friday August 2nd from 6:30-8:30 pm. A full schedule and a link to purchase Upick tickets will be coming soon!
07/19/2024
Hip high by the end of July! Is that how the saying goes?! 🤪
These lisianthus are insanely tall! Stem length is always a flex in the cut flower world 💪 most blooms are running on the short end this season due to such a wet season, but these lisianthus are living their best life under the protection and heat of the high tunnel….now just patiently waiting for them to bloom for you all to enjoy! 🤩
07/18/2024
Subscription bouquets heading out today and tomorrow 🤩
Edit to add: Usually I have extra bouquets every Thursday and Friday for on farm pick up. This week I DO NOT!
However, I have dried Lavendar and Eucalyptus bundles available!
If you wish to claim a bouquet for next week (Thursday / Friday) please comment or dm to claim! Limited quantities 💐
07/18/2024
A new farm addition - we now have a sign!!
Although we aren’t far from Hwy 71 (2 miles east of Long Prairie), many flower friends have trouble finding our farm thanks to not so accurate GPS systems 🙃
We can now tell them to turn in at the “back forty” sign and you’ll be at the right place.
A shout out to my sister Heather Kleve for making the logo portion 🤩
07/16/2024
AROMATIC FLOWER BUNDLES
Long Prairie grown Lavendar and eucalyptus!
These mini floral bundles are amazing for all year round as the dry beautifully. They also are wonderful for your shower or bathroom counter and work great as an all natural car freshener! I currently have a Lavendar bundle on my dash and our van smells so good every time o open the door ☺️
$10/bu - on farm pick up Thursday and Friday from 1:00-6:00 pm
07/16/2024
Kate over at Little Rose Custom Creations always does such a great job!
More shirts and hats have been restocked! I’ve been sold out since last summer. I have a limited quantity! If you’d like to order, head to the website to claim! ☺️💐
07/16/2024
Definitely not the prettiest of posts, but these slides from our IG stories is packed full of info about our upcoming on farm UPICKS!
Please give them a read as they answer many of the questions I’ve been receiving.
I’m currently working on our website to have UPICK slots available for you to reserve before coming to the farm as well!
If you have any other questions about our upcoming flower upicks, please comment below or message! 💐
07/15/2024
When your Monday Mornings look like this 🤩
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After arranging July monthly bouquets and week two of summer subscriptions, I think I’ll have a few extra bouquets!
Hope on over to sign up to our newslettter if you haven’t done so already as I’ll send out an email later this week about on farm pick up and availability 💐☺️
07/15/2024
Many of you have asked…and we’re finally listening 😜💐
ON FARM FLOWER UPICKS
will be coming soon!
If you’re an email subscriber, you received a newsletter with the details. If you are not subscribed, please consider becoming our “BFF” - Back Forty Friend.
We will be using our newsletter to update flower friends about upcoming events both on and off the flower farm and UPICK information.
To sign up, click the link in the comments 👇 and comment with a 💐
and be entered to receive a FREE UPICK!
Tag a friend or two or share this post for additional chances ☺️
07/14/2024
Have to take a minute to showcase this guys hardwork 🍅
Charlie has been working hard all season to grow the best tomatoes and sweet corn on the farm! I handle the flowers and he enjoys the food. 🌽
In just a little time, the high tunnel will also be bursting with fresh food 😋
07/13/2024
Are you an email newsletter subscriber?
If not, you’re going to want to be! I just sent out an email chalked full of fun farm news and events!
If you are a subscriber- be sure to check out it out 📧 💐
To sign up for on farm news and happenings click the link in the comments below 👇
07/13/2024
A wonderful morning with wonderful people with wonderful helping hands to make it all happen after a crazy week.
I love being able to open up the farm to our church community and offer a space for some joy and conversation. The weather threw us for a loop this morning 🌧️, so we crammed inside and took a flower field walk once the sun started to shine. ☀️
07/12/2024
A DAY WELL SPENT 💐
Summer subscriptions started today…I’m so thankful for everyone who has become a monthly or weekly subscriber this season. It has been such a joy to get to know flower friends near and far, new and “old”.
Thank you for being apart of our flower journey.
07/11/2024
Emric’s turn…
When your five year old boy steals your phone and says “Mom, say FLOWERS!” 🥰💐
07/11/2024
“Mom, can I pick out my favorite stems from the flower cooler and make a bouquet?”
“You sure can, Arlan” 😊💐
07/10/2024
SUMMER FLOWER SUBSCRIPTIONS!!
Last call to be a summer subscription holder! There are just a few spots available 💐
2024 Summer Flower Subscriptions from Back Forty Flower Farm will include specialty cut flowers 100% grown and cut from our farm in Long Prairie, MN. Every weekly bouquet will be hand cut and selected with what is blooming that week. Many stems will last you longer than a week! Each bouquet will be hand wrapped in kraft paper to protect the petals and blooms during transport. The customer/final recipient of the weekly bouquets will be responsible for providing a clean vase/vessel and fresh water for the bouquet each week. Request for vase with flower subscription is available at extra cost. Please be sure to add "weekly vase" to your cart at check out if you wish to include a vase with your subscription.
For more information and to claim your spot (or gift to a loved one!) click the link in the comments 👇
07/09/2024
Allow yourself to be a beginner 💐
The past two days I spent my day with other flower growers at Sunny Mary Meadow with Jeni The Floral Hustle to delve deep into providing wedding flowers for our flower friends and future couples in our communities….
It was great to learn so many techniques and talk flowers with others florists and growers from all over the U.S!
I am far from where I want to be, but have so much joy in creating and providing flowers for special occasions…especially weddings 😊💐
07/09/2024
Current fav 🤩
Every year I trial a few new varieties of different flowers, one of them this year was this beautiful (and perennial!) salvia.
07/08/2024
If only social media had a scratch and sniff 💐
The mix of rain, sunshine, and blooming flowers has made this space so fragrant….wish I could bottle it up!
I might not be able to do that, but I can do the next best thing….fresh mix bouquets from the farm available this Thursday and Friday for on farm pickup! 💐
ALSO SUMMER SUBSCRIPTIONS START THIS WEEK!!
If you’re a summer subscription holder, I’ll be in contact with you for all the details in the next couple days…if you’re not a summer subscription holder and having a little FOMO (fear of missing out), it’s not too late!! I have a few spots still available!!
You can sign up via the website link that is linked in the comments 👇
07/06/2024
When a bride shares photos of their special day! 🤩💐😊
One of my favorite ways to share fresh flowers is via our DIY Bloom Buckets 💐
These bulk buckets of flowers from the farm are a wonderful way to experience fresh blooms in an affordable way. It also offers an amazing opportunity to play with flowers and get your family and friends together to arrange beautiful vessels for the special occasion.
Whether it’s your wedding, anniversary, bridal or baby shower, consider DIY bloom buckets for your next special event!
And thanks to this wonderful bride for trusting Back Forty Flower Farm for their big day! 💐
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The 2023 growing season in 23 seconds 🌱💐
A little farm news sneak peek 🫣 🦆 We’re really excited to learn all there is to know about having ducks on the farm! They love to eat bugs and slugs without scratching and eating your garden vegetation. We don’t deal with much pest pressure here on the farm….EXCEPT for slugs. Hoping these new friends will help us with that! ;) Their compost and eggs are going to be an additional benefit! Now the snow just needs to melt away so we can have a home for these cuties! Do you have experience with ducks?! If so, I’d love to hear your tips,tricks, and advice! 👇 Also, shout out to our friend Erin and her son for doing a wonderful job raising ducklings and letting us be very excited customers☺️
The growing space is officially full and we have so many more seeds to start! Patiently waiting for the warmer weather to arrive so that many of these plant babies can head outside and make way for new ones! 🌱❄️
✨Dahlia Obsessed ✨ I’m currently working on my dahlia plans for the 2023 season in hopes that it goes better than this past year. The tubers were planted a little later than I’d hoped, which in return produced late blooms. There were only a few to enjoy before the first frost came and wiped them out. Having a protected high tunnel for indoor growing will surely help 👌 Looking forward to sharing more about that soon! ;)
The Bloom Bar is ready for your creativity! Come create your own mixed bouquet or quickly grab a pre made arrangement on our farm until 11:00 am!
So many fun things coming out of the garden today that it is so hard to choose what to share! This cute little side table bundles of calendula and statice will be available at tomorrow’s market! 🤗
Just a little glimpse into the garden this evening. ✨ Flowers shown are statice, calendula, snapdragons, and a bunch of weeds 😉
Kiwi Blue Cerinthe Honeywort will be in this week’s farmers market mixed bouquets! Everytimenive incorporated this fun filler, I always get asked what it is. It’s unique with a pop of color 🤩
When you get a call to deliver flowers to the birthday girl (sweet 16) who is volunteering at the camp near you for the summer 🥰 Have I mentioned yet that I love this “job”!
Clarkia 😍
100% field grown flowers from our flower farm 👌
Fresh Cut Ranuculus
Perfection 🤌 I’m talking about the Aviv White Ranuculus. Not my dirt filled farmer hands 🙃
This was fun to create 💐 Sad to see that daffodils and tulips are done for the 2022 season, but so excited for what’s to come! #seasonalflowers
There’s beauty at every stage ✨
It’s a family affair ✨ We’re trying something new this year….landscape fabric. We’ve tried to avoid it, but when your growing on a large scale and don’t spray, weeds take over VERY quickly. Weeding takes time away from other important farm tasks and summer nights from our family. So, we’re giving it a go. Plus, this woven fabric is reusable and will last many years…. The boys had fun rolling out the 200’ foot rows while we staked it down. The next step is to burn holes into it (to prevent fraying), then outdoor planting will begin! 🌱
It’s Earth Day! May this be your reminder to plant something in your own yard (or containers) this growing season. It doesn’t need to be flowers or anything big and extravagant….a simple herb garden makes a difference 🌱 All you have to do is start 🌎
A cozy little greenhouse full of green and eager plants on this cold and rainy day ☔️ Once the forecast allows, snapdragons, bells of Ireland, delphinium, and rudbeckia all need to get transplanted out into the fields which will open up room in the grow room and green house spaces for warm loving starts like sunflowers, celosia, zinnias, and more!
Growing in Low Tunnels
I’ve been spending a lot of time in our low tunnels planting out cool season crops. There have been a few questions about them and how they are beneficial. Here are the top reasons why I love them so far!
My favorite (and least favorite) part of this flower farming gig…nature. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It has tested my patience more times than I care to admit. The grow space has run out of room with many cool season seedlings wanting to get into the ground, but moving at the pace of nature has allowed me to slow down and catch up on other things which is also important.
An empty greenhouse didn’t last long… There’s just a few empty spaces that I’ll be filling later today and tomorrow and it’s already full. Time for a bigger greenhouse 🌷😁 Side note: everything that is inside is very cold tolerant. Even though it’s 75 degrees inside, the night temps are still around freezing inside. So I have the presprouted ranuculus, delphinium, yarrow, and soon to be rudbeckia and echinacea. If you don’t know much about cool flowers, I highly recommend the book “Cool Flowers” authored by Lisa Mason Ziegler (an amazing flower farmer).
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