Little Red Flower Truck

17/10/2024

Celebrating the first frost the best way we know how; dried flowers baby!

Feeling downright spoiled to be settling into fall here on the farm with our big four month old(!!), our resident barred owl, two snuggly pups, epic early sunsets and a shipping container full of dried flowers

We are opting out of evergreens this year and focusing on dried flowers and winter veg. So if you need some dried floral joy in your life hit me up 🌾✨

15/10/2024

First dried flower wreath workshop of the season was a great success!

A small cozy crew gathered in the Farmstand, we had tea and snacks and played with sweet annie & it was the very first time I’ve ever taught a workshop on the same property as were the flowers were grown, an actual dream come true ✨

We’ve got a few spaces left in the 10/27 & 11/10 workshops, 11/3 is sold out! Sign up on our website & reach out with questions 🤝

Thanks for the photos! (And for generally being the best 💋)

11/10/2024

October sky drama ✨

06/10/2024

During my senior year of under-grad I wrote an anthropology thesis on the subculture of beekeepers in Western North Carolina. I traveled all around WNC interviewing beekeepers from small scale backyard hobbyists to folks participating in larger, migratory practices. These interviews took me all over Buncombe, Haywood, Yancey and Madison county and I met some incredibly interesting beekeepers who were beyond generous with me in sharing their stories and their bee yards. I concluded that despite significant ideological diversity within the subculture, the beekeepers of WNC were able to set aside their differences and come together in a time of environmental crisis. I will forever be grateful that this academic process took me out of the classroom and into the mountains, it changed me as a student and deepened my love for the area.

Watching WNC get pummeled this week by Hurricane Helene has been utterly heartbreaking. There is magic in those mountains, the culture of community there is like nothing I have ever experienced and it is devastating to watch such suffering from afar. The only solace is watching the community show up for each other. Neighbors taking care of neighbors, activists organizing search and rescue, grassroots pop-up distribution centers. It just validates my understanding of this place, they have eachothers backs in times of crisis, no matter what, it is so powerful.

Thanks to yalls hunger for local flowers this week we were able to send over $1000 to loved ones needing to rebuild and to & who have been mobilizing since day one.
I wish I could give so much more to the place that played a giant role in shaping who I am today. I have never felt this homesick before; an aching for the people, the mountains, the river, mixed with absolute rage for the deep history of extraction in Appalachia, for the over-investment in tourism vs. infrastructure in the region and the very real fear for what the future holds for WNC.
I hope we can be inspired by the community driven efforts in WNC right now; show up for each other, we are truly all we’ve got.

21/08/2024

🌾Dried Flower Workshop Series🌾

We are thrilled to announce our 2024 Dried Flower Workshop Series!

We have been stashing away flowers in our drying shed all summer and cannot wait to welcome you to the farm for a wholesome afternoon of crafting.
Teaching and sharing the art of dried flower wreath making is one of my biggest joys in life, truly I wait all year for these workshops.
Come one come all! No experience necessary, ages 10+

The farmstand is tight so there are only 8 spots available each week, sign up early and tell your friends!

Come get cozy in Harborside and leave with a unique work of art to be treasured forever!

2-5pm
$125/person
light refreshments served
come early to tour the farm
sign-up on my website! (www.littleredflowertruck.com)

🍁Sunday October 13th
🍁Sunday October 27th
🍁Sunday November 3rd
🍁Sunday November 10th

📸 credit xoxo

14/08/2024

Today I turn 35!
Feeling lucky, exhausted, grateful, reflective, anxious, in love… really just feeling all of it while hiding away in a dark room, holding a two month old June baby who refuses to sleep anywhere else at the moment.
It has been suuuuch a wild year! Truly would have laughed in your face this time last year if you had tried to tell me what this year would bring. I can’t say it’s been my best year in business, honestly it might be my worst?!
But we’ve got a ton to show for our growth as individuals, farmers and most importantly as a family.
I have moments of feeling like I’m bursting at the seems with creative ideas for the future of our business and moments where I could care less about anything related to farming/business. But then I go cut flowers, eat a carrot from the ground, make a bouquet or watch the sunset on the farm and remember myself, grieve for the easy life I once took for granted and feel wicked fu***ng validated that I chose this path for myself, cuz it’s a good one

24/06/2024

Caleb and I are so proud to introduce the newest member of our crew; June Eleanore Friedland 💖

She is absolute perfection and we are so in love! Whata lucky lady to be spending her young years nestled into this farming life, surrounded by such a supportive community. We are so grateful for all of it

05/06/2024

Still pregnant, still farming 💃🏻

It’s not all rainbows and butterflies but it is pretty amazing what this body can do! I take a lotta naps, my feet are almost three sizes bigger than pre-pregnancy(and in constant pain), I straight up waddle around, but I’m still working and I’m counting that as a win.
It’s officially June! And this baby is coming earth side this month one way or another 🥳 say a lil prayer for us

Seriously wouldn’t have made it this far without the fierce, loving support of my partner in all things, Caleb. He’s my hero and I can’t wait to watch him become a dad. He’s been farming his ass off and it’s been a wild and rewarding experience learning how to work full time together on this incredible property. It is both a dream and sometimes a bit of a nightmare 😅 but we’re doing it, and I can’t wait to tell our daughter the tale of 2024; the year she surprised us with her presence and we took over a legacy farm together 🥰

26/05/2024

Making big moves in preparation for ✨next Saturday’s✨June 1st✨Farmstand Opening day✨

We hope you’ll mark your calendars and come see us this season 8-noon on Saturdays.

We promise to have the perfect blend of LRFT&FSF goodies for ya 🤝

609 Weir Cove Road
Harborside 🌈

12/05/2024

Mother’s Day has a whole new meaning for me this year as we (excitedly, anxiously, somewhat patiently) await the arrival of our June baby.
So much has happened this year and we’re so lucky this lil babe decided to come along for the ride, what a ride it’s been! We can’t wait to meet her and see who she becomes, learn what she loves and how she chooses to live her life 🥹 it’s all so overwhelmingly exciting I can barely stand it!
Humbled by it all, grateful for this body, empowered by the process, mourning my youth, confused as to how I’ll keep farming with such stamina…it’s all there, all at once, in the biggest most dramatic year of my life. Somebody pinch me, and rub me feet plz

Thanks to all the amazing parents in my life who have modeled compassionate caregiving and especially the farming families who give us hope that we can do it all, no matter how hard and impossible it seems. We see you & we’re honored to join the ranks 🌞

06/05/2024

‼️ one month till farm stand ‼️

We are psyched to be keeping the Four Season Farm Stand tradition alive and we are officially one month out from opening the doors!

Join us on Saturday June 1st from 8am-Noon for our very first day of the 2024 farm stand season 🌞

We will open every Saturday from June thru October / maybe longer depending on how the season unfolds!

You’ll find the freshest produce, the most bodacious bouquets + some other delicious local offerings!

Please follow along for farm stand updates

Huzzah!!

29/04/2024

Slowly but surely Caleb has been moving all of our infrastructure from Ellsworth to Cape Rosier. It’s been no small feat and has been rather time consuming but will be so helpful once the flowers start rolling in. I’m so impressed and grateful for his Mainer ingenuity, whata gem!

13/01/2023

🌻2023 CSA update🌻

We are building a new website and plan to launch our 2023 CSA shares with our website, right before Valentine’s Day!!

This year we will have a spring, summer, fall aaaand winter CSA share; all the flowers!!!

If you were a CSA member in 2022 you will get first dibs and 10% off shares for 2023! Expect to hear from me next month, love you!!!

Reach out with questions, and stay tuned for February website and CSA updates

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01/01/2023

✨Happy 2023✨
From all of us here at LRFT, we wish you and yours a year of comfort, reflection and alllll the floral joy ❤️

Xoxo- Caleb, Molly, Hank & Beans

07/12/2022

26/11/2022

✨THANK YOU✨

From the bottom of our flower shaped hearts, we are SO grateful for all of y’all’s support of our small business!!

We had a huge year and we truly could not have done it without your support and encouragement!

The stoke is high going into 2023 and we cannot wait to provide you with lovingly grown floral joy!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

14/11/2022

18/09/2022

Dried flower offerings available now, as well as our first wintry flower subscription!

LITTLE RED FLOWER TRUCK