Crop planning can feel overwhelming. Especially when you’re paging through seed catalogs, scrolling Instagram, and imagining everything you could grow on your flower farm. January is when I start thinking seriously about crop planning for the season ahead, but not in the way most people expect. Before I ever open a spreadsheet or count seed packets, I focus on […]

January always feels quieter on the surface, but underneath, a lot is happening. There are seeds to order, notes to review, ideas swirling around for the season ahead. There’s also that familiar mix of excitement and overwhelm that tends to show up right about now. You want this to be the year things really click, but you’re […]

Growing cut flowers can certainly be a seasonal side hustle that brings in some extra income, but for me it’s a year-round career. And that’s not by chance; that’s what I set out to build from the beginning.   Within just two years of sowing the first seeds in my backyard garden, I had grown Hidden […]

Although it sometimes feels like it happened overnight, turning my backyard garden into a cut flower business took time. I grew Hidden Springs seed by seed, season by season—and all while raising three kids. Looking back, there were a few pivotal choices that helped me move from a little hobby to a full-fledged business. Today, […]

This spring has been the ultimate example of the importance perennials play on my flower farm. After a brutally cold winter and unusual spring, I found myself scrambling to pull together 4 weeks of bouquets for my spring subscription members. The anemone were late and ranunculus lackluster, so I turned to the reliable perennials I’ve […]

I’m not big on resolutions, but the New Year always makes me excited about the opportunities and possibilities that lie ahead in the coming months. Not long ago I was spending the first weeks of the new year dreaming about starting a business that would allow me, as a new mom, the flexibility to be […]

There’s nothing quite like a fresh wreath to signal the start of the holiday season and at Hidden Springs, creating handmade wreaths has been a part of the business since year one. From mid-November through the first weeks of December, my hands have a stubborn layer of pine and eucalyptus sap from cranking out fresh […]

With colder temps in the forecast and frost looming, it’s time to get the field covered up and tucked in for the winter. At Hidden Springs, I plant the majority of my valuable spring crops in the fall, allowing them to develop strong roots over the winter. These strong roots help produce larger, more productive […]

Now that we’re solidly into the crisp but sunny days of fall, I’m spending some time mapping out my to-do list for the coming months. I consider anything after September 30 “bonus season” for the flower field. Every day that we have flowers blooming past this point  is a gift, not a given. Our average first […]