Wood Frog Flowers

20/11/2023

Only two more markets left! (How did that happen??)

Catch me in Norwich on these two upcoming dates:
📆12/9 from 10-2
📆12/16 .farmers.market in Tracy Hall from 9-1

If you’re looking for an arrangement with certain flowers, want a bouquet in exactly the right colors to match your bathroom, or know you need a wreath in a very specific size for your sister-in-law’s kitchen - shoot me an email. I love to do custom arrangements and am happy to chat! [email protected]

19/11/2023

My mom came to market yesterday and took a bunch of photos (look, it’s my face, haven’t posted that in a while!)

Thanks so much to everyone who came out and made yesterday one of my best markets ever. I really appreciate your business, support, and conversations.

Also big thanks to for being my extra set of hands behind the booth 💕

Only two more markets left this season!
12/9 at Honeyfield Farm
12/16 at Tracy Hall

17/11/2023

Tried a new thing today - mini table decorations with willow. They all have hooks, so they could be used as mini wreaths, too.

At the .farmers.market in Tracy Hall tomorrow, from 9-1.

09/11/2023

Does the first snow have you hankering for a balsam wreath? The preorder form is now live!

Wreaths available in two sizes and a variety of styles, all made with natural and compostable accents (so you’re not adding any plastic to the waste stream by purchasing one).

Pickups in Strafford, Randolph, or at the .farmers.market thanksgiving market on 11/18. Link in bio and stories to order.

Act quickly - I usually sell out within a week or so, my quantity is limited by the number I have time for and can reasonably make before my hands fall off!

03/11/2023

Hello, small wreaths!

02/11/2023

Looking for certified organic dried flower arrangements this November? Here’s where to find me:

🌼 artisan market - Saturday Nov 4, 10-4 in Reading

🌼 .farmers.market Thanksgiving Market in Tracy Hall - Saturday Nov. 18, 9-1 in Norwich

Balsam wreath preorders go live after this weekend 🌲

I won’t be at the November popup at because I’m going hiking (yay, taking a break!), but I’ll be there in December.

27/10/2023

‼️ Only one more outdoor market left .farmers.market ‼️

See you tomorrow, 9-1

Come get yourself some pretty colors to stave off the seasonal depression (what seasonal depression?)

22/10/2023

Upper Valley Harvest Giveaway!
Ascutney Harvest, Lucky Fields, Busy B Goat Farm, Aura’s Apothecary, and Wood Frog Flowers are teaming up to celebrate the harvest! These five local farms will gift one lucky winner a gift basket, including:

From : two pounds of shallots, two butternut squash, and a pound of garlic - a fall bounty!

From : a $10 gift certificate, redeemable toward any of their delicious products!

From : a bar of goat milk soap and a container of silky goat milk lotion!

From : two samples of their fantastic teas!

From : an 8” dried flower wreath, perfect for decorating your home this fall!

To enter:
1. Follow all five accounts:
2. Like this post
3. Tag two friends who you want to share the harvest with this season!

It all adds up to an amazing $100 value! Winner will be drawn and contacted at 9 am on 10/27.

15/10/2023

Time to make my car smell like eucalyptus and summer savory 👀

14/10/2023

One of my favorite wreaths that found a home today (I mean, they’re all my favorite but I do love yellow strawflowers so much)

14/10/2023

Only three more outdoor .farmers.market Saturdays left!

See you all tomorrow 🌸 (9-1, Rt 5, Norwich)

11/10/2023

I just liked the colors on this wreath I made yesterday. That’s all.

30/09/2023

I’m a little late in promoting this, but if you’re looking for a great quality farm and artisan market in central VT tomorrow, come to the Brookfield Old Town Hall!

Brookfield farmers, artisans, crafters, cooks and bakers will join together to present a unique day of shopping, eating, community and fun at the Brookfield Old Town Hall, 93 Stone Rd in Brookfield. Farm items will include honey, maple syrup, cider, seasonal vegetables, eggs, mushrooms, chicken, beef and pork. Craft items include organic dried flower arrangements, sketches and photography, wooden bowls, hand knit accessories, handcrafted functional and decorative pottery including bowls, mugs, vases etc. There will be fiction by a local author. Lunch items courtesy of the Brookfield Old Town Hall committee will feature a variety of hearty soups and bread. The Hall is steps from the very picturesque Floating Bridge so make a day of it!


Who will be there?
Brookfield Bees: honey, maple syrup, fresh and boiled cider, beeswax products

1000 Stone Farm: all types of seasonal veggies, eggs

Floating Bridge Family Farm: Grass fed beef, pork, fresh chicken, eggs

Wood Frog Flowers: certified organic dried flower arrangements and pansy seedlings

Marylou Meader: a variety of hand-knit accessories

Harvie Porter: wooden bowls

Margaret Osha: Barn sketches, nature photography and more from a native Vermont farmer

Gary Hillard: Gary Hillard writes fiction full of truth, powerful books about powerful kids in Vermont

Four Wings Pottery: Functional and decorative stoneware pottery for home and holiday gifts.

Stone Ridge Pottery: Handcrafted pottery, vases, mugs and bowls

23/09/2023

Thanks for coming out, .farmers.market folks!

See you next week!

23/09/2023

Today marks the return of the full Wood Frog Flowers booth to .farmers.market!

I’ll be there, right next to Lauren every Saturday through the end of October.

Come say hi, look at some pretty flowers, and tell me all about your favorite color combinations!

One-off market dates coming in a later post.

22/09/2023

🌸Certified organic pansy seedlings from Wood Frog Flowers are available for purchase to brighten your gardens this fall AND next spring! They are available for preorder or at several pickups over the next two weeks.🌸

Pansies planted this fall will bloom until snowfall, overwinter in your gardens, and bloom more vigorously next spring than pansies bought in the spring. They can be planted in garden beds and dug in the spring to pot up, or in perennial beds to add color in November and April. Available in seven colors (white, yellow, orange, light blue, purple, blue morpho, and mix) in compostable 6-packs ($5 for a 6-pack).

🌸Why plant pansies in the fall?
Pansies are a biennial, meaning they spend the first year of their life growing, and the second year flowering (as opposed to an annual, which grows, flowers, and dies in one year, or a perennial, which grows and flowers over many years). Most pansies sold in the spring in Vermont are started further south in January, and shipped up to Vermont to be planted and bloom in the spring. Pansies planted in the fall however, will be healthier plants with more blooms after overwintering in the garden. These plants were seeded in mid July, to bloom next spring and summer (although you will also have several frost tolerant blooms this fall).

🌸How do I purchase seedlings?
Pansies are available at the following pickups:
Saturday, 9/30 4-5 pm at the Red Barn parking lot in Strafford
Saturday, 9/30 9am-1pm at the Norwich Farmers Market (preorder only)
Saturday 10/7, 9am-1pm at the Norwich Farmers Market (preorder only)
Sunday, 10/1 noon-3pm at the Brookfield Old Town Hall Market Day
Preordered pansies can also be picked up on Rt 14 in Brookfield, or from my porch in Strafford.

Email [email protected] with any preorders, questions, or to see photos of the color selection.

These pansies were planted by .manning24 last fall 🥰

01/09/2023

First dried flowers of the season will be at .farmers.market this Saturday!

For the next three weeks, I’ll have a variety of bouquets, swags, wreaths, and rainbow sticks at the Ascutney Harvest booth (right across from the entrance). Starting September 23, Wood Frog will have it’s own full booth, right next door to Ascutney Harvest.

There will be more special and holiday market dates coming - but in the meantime, see you Saturday!

28/08/2023

I arranged the very first dried flowers of the year today. It was really fun.

This is a wedding bouquet and 35 mini bouquets for table decorations that I made for a friend. I love doing custom arrangements, but I don’t usually do weddings (it’s just a whole different industry). But these were for a friend who’s been lovely and supportive over the years, and it was fun to have an excuse to try something new. She’s also got really good taste in colors, I think 😉

I’ll be making more dried arrangements this week, and will have the very first dried flowers for sale at .farmers.market on Labor Day weekend (they’ll be at the booth).

More details/market date reminders/etc to come in another post. For now, here’s two pretty pictures of blue flowers. I really liked arranging them.

17/08/2023

The first gomphrena harvest of the season!

I love gomphrena for being such a workhorse - easy to work with, vibrant, productive, and such a fun texture. It’s done remarkably well this year, given all the rain. This is the first year I’ve experimented with growing white, which has been fun, too!

11/08/2023

Look! I know I’ve only been posting about my fresh flowers, but I promise I do dried ones still, too.

In between all the fresh flower bouquet fun, lovely CSA customers, and veggies, the dried flowers have been quietly chugging along.

Here’s a sampling of what I picked tonight (not including the whole bread crate’s worth of winged immobium and statice I couldn’t fit in).

It’s been a weird summer, and I already feel September in the cool, dry nights. I have to keep reminding myself it’s only early August, and that there’s still plenty of time for these bunches to dry before I start arranging them for you all (but I’m definitely starting to get excited thinking about it).

23/07/2023

I think I’ve w**ded this bed every week since I planted it in late May. Every w**d under the sun (or in this years case, rain) just keeps germinating and nothing dies (sigh).

On the bright side, things are still growing and blooming, and the sky was really pretty tonight.

21/12/2022

Happy Solstice from Wood Frog Flowers!

So many thanks to all the people who made this past season possible (especially my parents for their land and advice, and my boss Amy for generously letting me drive her van to market) and to those of you who came to market. It was a pleasure to grow sustainable decorations to brighten your homes with this past year.

Very, very big announcement coming about next year on Friday! (Don’t worry, it’s a very good announcement).

17/12/2022

Update! Today’s Tracy Hall winter market was cancelled due to ❄️❄️❄️

But! I’ll be there tomorrow instead! We’ve extended hours, so come by from 10-2. Find me on the basement level.
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16/12/2022

Tomorrow (12/17) is your last (last!!) chance to get a holiday gift from me for your friends, family, and loved ones.

Maybe you’re still looking for the right gift for your mom who loves flowers. Maybe you want to mail something to the friend who moved to the city this year and is missing the colors of Vermont. Maybe you’re looking for the right gift for your neighbor who loves to garden, your sibling who just bought their first house, or your daughter in law you’re welcoming into the family. Maybe you want to mail a bag of potpourri to your grandfather to put in his sock drawer, or an ornament to hang on his tree. Or maybe the grey and snowy day today has you realizing you want some flowers in your house, to remind you this winter that spring is coming.

If the answer to any of this is yes, come down to Tracy Hall for the .farmers.market tomorrow, between 10 and 1. You can find me on the basement floor, with dried flower arrangements to fulfill all of your last minute gifting needs.

10/12/2022

🎄Tried a new thing and made some clip on ornaments this year! I’ll have em today , and if you all like them, I’ll bring more to .farmers.market next week! 🎄

10/12/2022

See you tomorrow at !

Here’s a little throwback to my first time at their popup market…way back last December! (My displays look a little empty because you all cleaned me out that day 😉)

If you’ve never been to a Honeyfield popup, you’re missing out - their greenhouses are the coziest way to shop 21 local vendors (bagels! macarons! pottery! veggies! meat! syrup! sheepskins! Caribbean food for lunch!) without feeling crowded.

See you between 11 and 2!

02/12/2022

See you tomorrow at the Strafford Holiday Market!

10-3, Barrett Hall, South Strafford!
I’ll be set up in the basement. There are 38 other artisans and crafters there, so it’ll be a great place to find holiday gifts for friends and family (or for yourself!)

27/11/2022

Working on some wreaths I’ll be bringing to the Strafford Artisan Holiday Sale next weekend!

It’s from 10-3 in Barrett Hall in South Strafford. There will be LOTS of great vendors, live music, and treats. Hope to see you there!

19/11/2022

Thanks, everyone, who came out for a surprisingly not-too-cold market today .farmers.market! It was a lovely end to the outdoor market season.

You have two (2!) more chances to catch me at market before the season is over:
🌼12/3 at Barrett Hall in Strafford, 10-3
🌼12/18 at Tracy Hall in Norwich, 10-1

18/11/2022

It might be chilly and snowy out, but we’ll be there at .farmers.market tomorrow!

Come down between 10 and 1 for all your decorating and holiday gifting needs!

15/11/2022

If you’ve only ever met me selling flowers at market, you probably haven’t gotten to experience my deep commitment to making cookies.

Let me tell you, though, it is a serious dedication. I believe very strongly in the power of a mental health cookie to turn the wrong day around. Every year during the holiday season, I make twelve different types of cookies to mail to friends and family. A solid two thirds of my cookbook collection covers cookies (and I like cooking savory foods, too!)

Out of all of these cookies, I’ve picked out three really fantastic recipes featuring local ingredients (applesauce, pumpkin, and boiled cider) to show you how to make on Thursday night. Its part of ‘s monthly series on cooking with local and wild foods. It’s a free event streaming on YouTube and Facebook, so you can tune in anywhere.

Come learn to make apple cider caramels, pumpkin bars, and applesauce cookies! I guarantee eating any of them will make your day better.

11/11/2022

If you’re not heading out for opening day tomorrow (of if you want a cozy break in the middle of it), come on down to for their cute popup from 11-2!

We will be set up in the greenhouses, so it’ll be super cozy and dry! I’ll have reused plastic bags to cover anything you purchase and keep it dry.

It will be a great day to pick up some decor for your holiday table, get a jump on your holiday shopping, and stock up on bread and veggies from some other vendors!

06/11/2022

Holiday balsam wreath preorder forms are live (🔗 in bio)! (I know it's 68 degrees out, but it'll be real winter before we know it).

Wreaths are made with locally grown balsam and natural accents. There are six styles, in both 16" and 20" diameter frames. Photos are available in the order form.

Preordered wreaths will be available at pick ups in Randolph, Norwich, and Strafford:
Saturday, 11/19 from 10-1 at the Norwich Farmers Market
Sunday, 11/20 from 11-12 in the Randolph Town Office parking lot
Saturday, 11/26 from 11-12 in the Randolph Town Office parking lot
Saturday, 12/4 from 10-3 at the Strafford Holiday Sale (in Barrett Hall)

If you have any issues with the form, would like a PDF version, or have any questions, feel free to DM or email [email protected]

06/11/2022

Holiday balsam wreath preorder forms are live! (I know it's 68 degrees out, but it'll be real winter before we know it).

Wreaths are made with locally grown balsam and natural accents. There are six styles, in both 16" and 20" diameter frames. Photos are available in the order form.

Preordered wreaths will be available at pick ups in Randolph, Norwich, and Strafford:
Saturday, 11/19 from 10-1 at the Norwich Farmers Market
Sunday, 11/20 from 11-12 in the Randolph Town Office parking lot
Saturday, 11/26 from 11-12 in the Randolph Town Office parking lot
Saturday, 12/4 from 10-3 at the Strafford Holiday Sale (in Barrett Hall)

Preorder form: https://forms.gle/5GZoGmFZQuSniFvu8

If you have any issues with the form, would like a PDF version, or have any questions, feel free to email [email protected]

Thank you!

Thank you for your order! Wreath measurements refer to the diameter of the wire frame (but the wreaths extend about four inches beyond the frame). All are made with balsam grown in Brookfield, with other locally gathered natural accents. At the end of the holiday season, save your frame to return to...

05/11/2022

Did you know I do custom arrangements? I love making items that fit perfectly into your home.

I’ve matched wreath colors to paintings, made arrangements to fit in a specific vase, and made wreaths based on peoples favorite colors and flowers (like this one for a customer who wanted yellow and pink for a friend).

If you’re interested in a custom arrangement, shoot me a DM or email [email protected]

You can come pick them up at any of my holiday markets:
❄️11/12 at in Norwich, 11-2
❄️11/19 at .farmers.market at the Rt 5 outdoor location, 10-1 (holiday balsam wreaths available for pickup at this market!)
❄️12/3 at Barrett Hall in Strafford, 10-3 (holiday balsam wreaths available for pickup at this market, too!)
❄️12/17 at Tracy Hall in Norwich

01/11/2022

🎁Holiday Market Schedule!🎁

Looking for some certified organic dried flowers to give for holiday gifts this season? Come pick some out!

❄️11/12 at in Norwich, 11-2
❄️11/19 at .farmers.market at the Rt 5 outdoor location, 10-1 (holiday balsam wreaths available for pickup at this market!)
❄️12/3 at Barrett Hall in Strafford, 10-3 (holiday balsam wreaths available for pickup at this market, too!)
❄️12/17 at Tracy Hall in Norwich

I’ll have holiday balsam wreath preorder forms coming out this weekend - stay tuned!

21/10/2022

Some fragrant (that green is all sweet Annie!) fall colored wreaths headed to .farmers.market tomorrow.

It’s your last chance to see me there during the regular market season, and a great time to start looking around for the perfect holiday or host gift for loved ones.

It should be a sunny and glorious day to be out and about, and I would love to see you there!

17/10/2022

Next Saturday (10/22) is my last regular season market at .farmers.market!

I’ll be back for some holiday markets in November and December. Stay tuned for those dates, and in the meantime, come down on Saturday! It’s looks like it will shape up to be a beautiful weekend.

14/10/2022

Swags headed to .farmers.market tomorrow!

See you there! I’ll have lotsa wreaths, bouquets, sticks, and potpourri, too.