How we farm

SEE THE BEFORE…

SEE THE BEFORE…

We cultivate seasonal flowers in the west-facing prairie acreage with glowing sunsets located near La Broquerie, Manitoba. There used to be a big lawn in our front yard that has been slowly disappearing and a sea of flowers slowly emerging. We solarize and get rid of the the grass with a silage tarp and build the soil up with quality compost rather than tilling.

Every year since 2016, we cover a section of the lawn and a new garden marks a new growing season. In 2021, we finished transforming 4,000 sq ft of grass to annual cut flower haven! The dreaming doesn’t end though and eventually pockets of perennial gardens and a mini orchard will flourish here that you and I can revel in. It is and will continue to be a tiny flower farm operation that wants to inspire the eco-conscious consumer and florists alike to embrace local, seasonal and sustainable blooms as their flowers of choice.

The flowers we select to grow every year must meet two out of three categories: great as fresh cut flowers, dries very well and can be used as natural dye - our sustainability trifecta of sorts.

In 2020, Tinta Studio was born, a line of naturally dyed/tinted textiles using plant and flower dyes we grew and/or responsibly sourced. In the off-season, when the garden has been put to bed, we hold on to summer by incorporating dried and pressed flowers in our projects or dyeing with dried blooms we saved from the summer past.

2018 Bounty

… AND THE AFTER!