O'Flora is a small flower farm located in Oregon's Southern Willamette Valley. We grow a very limited offering of spring flowers.
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29/04/2024
Spring is moving so quickly! This week will be the last bouquets of the spring subscription. And my short little season will be wrapping up. Here are a couple images from week 2 to kick off your Monday with flowers!
11/04/2024
Last Friday the O’Flora Spring Bouquet Subscription started for 2024! It is hard to believe that this is my fourth spring of flower farming (and fifth year). Farming is not for the faint of heart, but every spring when I see these beautiful blooms, I (mostly) forget the hard work that takes place in the fall and over the winter to usher this beauty into the world.
If you want some of O’Flora’s flowers, make sure to drop by Down To Earth on Fridays after 11am. There will be beauty waiting for you there tomorrow.
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Nice to meet you!
Hello, I’m Krista, the farmer-florist behind O’Flora.
I’m a second-generation Oregonian growing specialty cut flowers on the land that I grew up on in the Willamette Valley. Although I have traveled far and wide, I’m always proud to call Oregon home.
I suspect that my love of flowers came from my Grandma Mary. Her garden was always awash in flowers, from her hanging fuchsia baskets to the bearded iris that made statements in the spring. She had a knack for artfully placing flowers into arrangements in her home and I believe she passed that talent onto me. For many years now, I’ve been daydreaming about having a cut flower farm.
You should also know that for the past fifteen years, my lifestyle hasn’t exactly allowed for even a garden. I lived in the concrete jungle (it is actually a lovely city to live in, politics aside!) of Washington, DC, for seven years while I worked at National Geographic. And for the last seven years working as a freelance travel photographer, I’ve seen more of the world than my own home.
In the midst of assignments to far-flung locales, I discovered Floret, a flower farm in Washington State who was spreading the love of locally grown flowers through education. I was hoping to attend their in-person flower farm workshops, if only my hectic schedule would make the timing right. So when Floret’s online workshop came out, I decided I’d go through the course from wherever I was in the world and see if I was ready to try flower farming myself, assuming I would ever be home long enough to tend to plants.
Cut to March 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic slammed the brakes on my career as a travel photographer. As I lost one contract after another, I realized that as painful as it was to lose work that I loved to do, my calendar was magically opening up to other possibilities….of finally putting seeds into the soil.
Launching a flower farm in the midst of a pandemic came with its own set of challenges, but fast forward to today and I can almost forget about waiting through shipping delays for seeds and supplies when I see the beauty unfurling before me.
And I’m so happy to be sharing the beauty and joy of flowers with you. I sell bouquets and make specialty arrangements for clients in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. If you’re in my neighborhood, pop over to my online flower shop to fill your home with my blooms.
My flower journey is just getting growing and I hope you follow along.
And don’t worry, my photography career isn’t going away….I just might need an assistant to fill in from time to time. Any volunteers?