Wilding Hope

15/10/2024

This is it! Our very last week with fresh blooms! See us at the boalsburg_farmers_market and PA Open Air Farmers Market and get there early for best selection. Quantities are dwindling and frost-mas is coming!

Also, we are offering CSA Shares for the upcoming 2025 Season at 2024 pricing just through November 15th. The earlier payments help us to pay for bulbs, fertilizer, potting soil and labor to ensure the earliest and most magnificent spring blooms! Jump on board now if you can because we will need to raise prices for 2025!

19/09/2024

Our bouquets are dahlia forward this week! Find your favorite dahlia combo for the weekend at any one of these fine places!

And if you want to learn to design with these beautiful blooms we have a flower bar and mini workshop at on Saturday from noon to 2 pm or a more elaborate Design workshop here at the farm studio on Sunday afternoon! For tickets to the one at Ferryboat Campsites check out their Facebook events. For tickets to our Bold and Bodacious Design workshop on Sunday go to our online store at wildinghope.com or check out our stories for an easy link!

15/08/2024

Oooh la la! August is proving to be just as luscious as May! Don’t miss the tomorrow, Harrisburg and Camp Hill friends! We’ll be there from 9- until the flowers run out!! Lisianthus, Dahlias and Celosia galore!

13/08/2024

Autumn 🍂 is coming and the cool temperatures this week are sending the flowers into overdrive! Dahlias, lisianthus, brain celosia and sunflowers are all begging to be the stars of the show!

This is your reminder that if you haven’t yet signed up for our Autumn CSA Membership, this is the week to do it!! Use the link in our bio to snag 4 huge bodacious bouquets at outstanding prices!

The CSA model is the best way to support our farm efforts! It helps to sustain us through the low income winter months, gives us the ability to easily connect with you and get feedback on a weekly basis! Our CSA members quickly become our most loyal ambassadors! We’ll let them tell you all about it in the comments below! ;)

08/08/2024

We are sad to miss all of our market customers tomorrow, but are glad that the market board is caring for the safety of the vendors and customers alike in deciding to cancel the market!

We will be distributing CSA Bouquets and special orders between 10-noon tomorrow in the Farm Show parking lot. CSA members please check your text messages for further details.

For flowers to brighten your dreary weekend come see us on Saturday between 10am-2pm at for a Flower Pop Up Market!

Those who can’t come to the pop up on Saturday, snag a bouquet from our retail partners at or text us (574-238-4930) your special order for pickup tomorrow between 10-noon.
Orders must be placed before 8am tomorrow.

03/06/2024

We are so very excited to partner with Sarah Rose from Plant Family Botanicals to offer this on farm event! THIS is the kind of restoration we are so excited to share with our CSA members and market customers! Mark your calenders and tell all of your friends!

13/05/2024

We are in recovery mode this morning after the insanity of last week! A huge shoutout to all of you who gleefully bought bouquet after bouquet from local flower farmers and small businesses and local floral designers this Mother’s Day! We had a record breaking week both at the market on Friday (in the pouring rain no less!) and in number of bouquets sent out from the studio! Next year we will need to plant twice as many blooms since we definitely weren’t able to meet the demand for locally grown flowers!

We ended the week with these gorgeous spring florals for Lacie and Matthew in the wonderful Manor garden at the May their love grow and flourish like flowers in spring!

None of this would have been possible without the incredibly hard work and support of my dear mother Hope, my sisters Deb and Angela, and the generosity and kindness and talents of Stacey and Eileen! I am so very blessed.

29/04/2024

Hurry, hurry! There is still a few weeks to grab a CSA Membership! We’ve been adding folks daily and we can’t wait to get more people connected to beauty, our farm, and the restoration that both bring! These Hummingbird poppies are stealing our hearts this week! Link in our bio to learn more about what the CSA membership is (more than a subscription service) and how it supports our efforts!

26/04/2024

We are so happy to be making CSA bouquets again! Our mixed market bouquets, tulips and ranunculus are hitting most of our retail partners either today or tomorrow. Look for our flowers at , , , , and ! Wish we delivered to a store or coffee shop near you? Feel free to tag a retail store you think should carry our blooms and we’ll reach out to them!

20/04/2024

Oodles of gorgeous spring blooms this week! We are doing an impromptu flower bar at Juniata River Commons today until 2! Come pick some tulips and we’ll add fragrant narcissus and glamorous ranunculus to your picks!

09/04/2024

Prom is coming!! And we have the perfect locally grown flowers in all colors to add the finishing touches! Phoebe will be hosting a free prom consultation day Juniata River Commons this coming Saturday from 11-2 pm. Swing by with your dress or tux photo and see if Wilding Hope flowers are for you!

01/04/2024

Wedding #1 is in the books! And we are happy to report that Phoebe’s healing leg was strong enough to have her climbing ladders and making this gorgeous floral arch for Marnie and Jimmy! Cool weather and sprinkles don’t bother spring blooms one bit and while we did have to supplement our farm grown anemone, tulips, quince and daffodils with some roses and hydrangeas, it was so much fun to design in March!! Pro tip for couples: repurpose that gorgeous arbor into a floor meadow for the sweetheart table and mantle decor! It gives you twice the wow for your most expensive florals!!

Many thanks to Jen and Chris for being super stars and carrying so many buckets to the bell tower!

29/03/2024

Need a way to make the next party you host stand out? Treat your guests to a flower bar from wilding hope featuring seasonal blooms to match your party palette! Email us at [email protected] for pricing info about our flower bars and mini workshops!

16/02/2024

The anemone we left in the soil last season are giving us all kinds of hope for an outstanding season 2024! Thick strong stems (lots of them) and beautiful healthy foliage are indicators that our experiment of interplanting these beauties with our later planting of dahlias was a great success! We’re so excited, we planted another whole bed of them, along with some new to us Hummingbird Iceland Poppies this past week! If you haven’t signed up to be a CSA member yet for 2024, don’t delay!

04/11/2023

That’s a wrap, folks! Hard to believe that my (Phoebe’s) wishes for the longest dahlia season ever came true!

This final arrangement of the year is dedicated to my mom and my two sisters, and who have kept everything moving forward since I broke my leg 4 and 1/2 weeks ago.

They all lead incredibly busy lives, but all of them picked up parts of my work load so that we could continue to bring beautiful flowers to you. Not only that, they cared for me, cheered me up, and have allowed me to lean on them fully. I’m humbled by their constant care and generosity.

I had to ask Angela to photograph the arrangement for me. Ever the artist, she delighted in sending me the photo of the bouquet with string trimmer cord next to it with a jaunty, “How’s this?”

“It’s perfect!” I replied.

And it is! That’s a wrap!

Stay tuned for 2024 CSA Share info dropping soon

18/10/2023

We are reveling in the very long awaited dahlia crop. And the wait was worth it! The flowers are putting on a fireworks display with every bucket that comes into the studio! With frost in the forecast for next week this may be the last week for the bulk of our blooms. But what a week it will be!

Do yourself a favor and load up on color and texture this week. Bunches of Dahlias head to this morning, and will be headed out to all our other distribution sites tomorrow morning.

13/10/2023

We are so excited to spend tomorrow morning with our friends at Market - Café in Camp Hill, PA! We’ll be celebrating all things Dahlias and promoting our 2024 CSA membership sign ups! Come celebrate Autumn’s goodness with us!

Don’t forget, tomorrow, Saturday October 14 from 10-1 we’ll be having our fall harvest soup and baked goods sale! will be with us selling some beautiful bouquets and flowers, and will be there with some beautiful jewelry pieces...great for yourself, or for a Christmas gift! It’s sure to be a good time! We’ll see you then! 🍂

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13/10/2023

The GREAT News!

The dahlias have exploded and we have oodles of them headed to this morning! Deb and Frances will be there with buckets of them from 9- noon.

The BAD and UGLY news!

Phoebe slipped and fell down a hill on Monday afternoon and broke her left leg. It was a pretty bad spiral fracture that required stabilization in the form of metal plates and 7 screws to ensure that it heals correctly.

After a surgery on Wednesday, she is being her normal bossy self from the couch. Her family and crew has picked up as much of the harvesting as possible and are bringing that beauty to you!

She is not to put any weight on the leg at all for 3-4 weeks, but a wheelchair and the care of family allowed her to put together some of the final CSA bouquets together last night for delivery today!

NOTES:
All pop ups/markets/events are still moving forward in some fashion due to the loving care and sacrifice of Phoebe’s family, the wonderful field crew, family friends and CSA members and fellow flower farmers. Special thank you to for eventS design help.

Offerings at market for the next two weeks will be dahlias by the stem and dahlia bunches. It’s what we have this time of year that is still going strong and it helps to keep it simple for those helping out on the fly.

Want to help support Wilding Hope through this bump in the road? Phoebe and Angie are going to be doing a bunch of marketing for the 2024 season in the next few weeks. Consider sharing our posts about CSA membership signups, upcoming design workshops, winter and spring planting workshops, and more!

Here’s to rolling with the ouches and coming through it stronger, more resilient, and filled with deep gratitude for the lessons in vulnerability and grace and healing that are a part of the journey.