Redhead Flowerbed

Back at it…even though the flowers and this farmer still feel like melting in these temps. Fingers crossed this is the last 100° days we see for the year in Sacramento! 🤞

You can support us by finding flowers at our farm stand
Saturday & Sunday morning 7am-noon
5725 26th st Rio Linda

Cash, Venmo or PayPal all accepted at our self serve stand.

Bouquets this week are $10, 12 or $20

Or come visit us and many more vendors atfarmersmarket Saturday 9am-1 at McClatchy park.

At least the zinnias don’t mind the heat!
This farmer on the other hand…🫠

🏖️ SUMMER BREAK TIME 🏖️

We will NOT be .farmersmarket this weekend or next and the farm stand will NOT be stocked.

If you have a special order mid-week I’m happy to create something custom for you but we’ll be spending the next few weekends having fun with our families, like summer was meant to be spent.

I’ve been at this flower farm thing for almost 7 years now and every year I loathe working in July & August. If you’ve meet me, you know I have 2 shades: see through and lobster. I’m genetically predisposed to be farming in a rain soaked bog in Scotland, not 118° direct sun. 🦞 😅

I’ve long lamented with my farmer friends that “if I could just figure out how to farm in Spring and Fall, I might actually love this.” So I’m taking some time and steps towards figuring that out.

That doesn’t mean we are done for the season and that I’m just sitting around drinking margaritas the rest of the year. I’ll be putting every bit of effort I can into cleaning up the farm, flipping long neglected flowerbeds, and planting for an AMAZING fall filled with sunflowers, amaranths, zinnias, heirloom chrysanthemums and more!

I’ll open the stand here and there, if it’s not 120°, so keep an eye on stories to catch those dates. And we’ll be at the farmers market off and on but for the most part…Summer break is “ON” ✌️

Stand is stocked with these juicy blooms! You know you need some 🍇🍑🫐

5725 26th street Rio Linda if you wanna do farm stand pick up. Blooms will be out until atleast noon…maybe later if it stays under boiling 🥵 today.

Or you can take a little trip down to Oak Park and check us out at the .farmersmarket along with lots of other amazing farmers, bakers and food makers.
Here from 9am-1pm.

It’s been a minute since I did a static post 🫣
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I’m still here and the flowers are still blooming.🌼🌸
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You can grab a bouquet from me at .farmersmarket Saturday from 9am-1 tomorrow

Or

Stop by the Farm Stand! We’re switching over to Summer Hours which means no more Friday evenings. It’s just too hot for the flowers and they would not be happy by the time you got them home. I make them on Friday’s still though so if you need to snag one before Saturday AM then send me a DM.
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Stand will be stocked Saturday & Sunday 8am- noon.
5725 26th st Rio Linda. You can pay with Venmo, PayPal or leave cash in the mailbox.

Let’s get Mother’s Day flowers checked off your to-do list! ✅

With just a few clicks you can have the most unforgettable flowers to gift.

I’ve teamed up with my flower BFF again and between the 2 of us we have some amazing blooms for Mother’s day!

Our Farmers Market schedule and the inability to be in 2 places at once (scientists really need to work on solving that!) means pre-ordered bouquets will be available for pick up from the farm stand Sunday morning ONLY, May 12th from 8am-noon.

We will be fully stocked at the Oak Park Farmers Market 3500 5th ave, from 9am-1pm Saturday May 11th
OR
Swing by the farm stand at 5725 26th st. With a variety of bouquets for self-serve there will be lots of early morning options but all on a first come first serve basis.

BUT…
The only way to guarantee we have a bouquet for you is by ordering through the website. You have until Friday at 10am to do that!

Quantities are limited and I expect we will sell out so don’t procrastinate!

The first flush of sunflowers is rolling in just in time to brighten up your weekend! A little rain won’t get you down when you have a bundle of gorgeous blooms on your kitchen table!

Farm stand will be stocked Friday 4pm-dusk, Saturday and Sunday 8am-dusk (or sell out)

5725 26th st Rio Linda

Bouquets are from $10-20. Pay with cash (leave in mailbox), PayPal or Venmo with our scan codes that are posted.

It’s prom season 💃🕺 and we have lots of sweet little boutonnieres and corsages heading out the door this weekend.

Yes! We do that too! BUT…you gotta email me sooner than the day before 😅

Blooms that are made for wearing take a little extra time to prep to make sure they last through all that boogie-ing.

If ya got a teen with a dance coming up send me an email stat! [email protected]
I guarantee they will have the cutest and most unique flowers around when they are sporting locally grown blooms 🥰

🌦️This weeks rain showers have been amazing for keeping the flowers nice and happy without us having to turn on our irrigation 🙌

💐But it also means I’m a bit behind since I’m harvesting blooms between rain storms. So I totally forgot to get a post up to let everyone know what’s happening this weekend!

•As usual you can swing by the farm stand in Rio Linda starting Friday at 4-dusk and Saturday & Sunday 8-dusk or sell out. 5725 26th st Rio Linda

•SATURDAY is Opening day for .farmersmarket ! So I’ll be there bright and early with fresh bouquets and flowers for all you on the south side of town. McClatchy park 3500 5th Ave from 9am-1.

•If you are a Rio Linda native (or want to take a gander out that way) you can also swing by the annual Veggie Plant sale for the Rio Linda Grange, an organization near and dear to my heart. We have a variety of tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, squash and more all started by seed in 3-4” pots for $4 each. All proceeds help support the Grange and our community efforts as a non-profit. 1315 G st Rio Linda 9am- sell out.

Spring has just exploded with all the gorgeous flowers! The farm stand will be stocked Friday evening 4pm-dusk, and Saturday and Sunday 8am-dusk with pre-made bouquets in the $20-35 range. Cash, Venmo or PayPal at pick up.

If you’re feeling crafty and want to make your own arrangements you can get a whole bucket of blooms! I call them DIY buckets and they are perfect for a fun activity where everyone gets to take home some pretty blooms.

Farm stand bouquets are first come first serve.
DIY buckets can be pre-ordered on my website www.redheadflowerbed.com/shop

All options are for farm pick up at 5725 26th st Rio Linda.

Friday flower drop!

stand is getting stocked at 4pm and loaded with heaps of fluffy white ranunculus that all decided to bloom at once this week 😬

5725 26th st Rio Linda. Friday 4-dusk. Sat & Sun 8am-dusk.

It’s the first day of spring here but things have already been “springing” for a month or more.

Winter was wet this year (yay rain!) but we didn’t get nearly enough cold days and it has all the perennials blooming about 4 weeks ahead of schedule. Yikes! 😳

Let’s keep our fingers crossed we get the temps back down otherwise these gorgeous babes won’t be here for very much longer.

Who’s ready for a Friday flower refresh?

These babes will hit the stand at 4 today (Friday)!

Saturday and Sunday will be stocked too from 8am-dusk

5725 26th st
$20~ cash, Venmo or PayPal

Ya’ll ready for more weekend flowers?!

Treat yourself, treat yo mama, treat yo sister. It’s International Women’s Day after all! 💪🚺

Flowers will be out at the stand Friday 4pm-dusk, Saturday & Sunday 8am-dusk

5725 26th st Rio Linda

Venmo, PayPal or cash (leave in mailbox please) accepted. Bouquets range from $15-30.

Who needs some sunshine this weekend? 🌞

Stand is stocked Friday-Sunday 8am-dusk (or sell out!)

5725 26th st Rio Linda

Bouquets between $20-30

We take cash (drop in mailbox), Venmo or PayPal!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Were all set up in West Sac at

12-5pm

With sweet almond blossom branches, chocolate scented geranium and fresh tulips these smell to die for 😍😍😍

💖Suprise!💖

We’re popping up in West Sac tomorrow!

It’s always a gamble if we’ll have flowers for Valentine’s Day and what looked like just a few bunches 2 days ago has quickly turned into more than a dozen gorgeous blush tulip bouquets just waiting to go home with you!

I’ll be there from 12-5 with fresh bouquets, everlasting dried bouquets, subscription certificates and more! If you want to reserve one now just send me a DM.

Mas Bueno is open 11-6 and 2050 Town Center Plaza. Same parking lot as Nugget.

Still looking for the perfect gift for your sweetie? We got you!
With options for weekly, bi-weekly and monthly deliveries you'll come away looking like the most thoughtful gift giver ever.

I mean what's not to love about a flower subscription, supporting a local business AND making sure your neighborhood farm survives to continue another season?

While we don't have flowers right now we will have heaps in just a few weeks. They will be SO much better than those boring grocery store flowers too!

Not that long ago, Americans got their flowers from neighborhood florists, who bought blooms grown on U.S. farms. Florists crafted bouquets and arrangements to order. They still do, of course, but you would be hard pressed to find local flower shop that puts the effort into supporting their local flower farm or American Grown flowers. These days, the bouquets that many Americans buy, typically at supermarkets, are grown, assembled and packaged overseas.

Now before you think I’m picking on florists, let me just stop you. 🖐️🛑 I’m not. They have businesses to run & families to feed. Half my farm’s income is from beautiful florists and designers buying wholesale from our farm for their stunning designs. 😘

So how did we go from a floral industry supporting billions of dollars in blooms being grown right here on American soil to less than 10 American rose farms over the span of 20 years?

C0cäinę ❄️

Yep, you read that right…booger sugar, nose candy, shneef, snooters, or insert whatever goofy name you use for it.

As part of the War on Drugs in the 1990s, the U.S. passed the Andean Trade Preference Act, allowing for tax-free flower imports from South America. U.S. legislators hoped to provide South American farmers with alternatives to growing coca that would ultimately be used to produce ❄️. To this day it is unclear if the ATPA significantly reduced drug traffic, but it did allow for less expensive imported flowers to enter the U.S. market with prices domestic growers couldn’t compete with, ultimately killing the American grown flower market.

American Shoppers are expected to spend nearly $2 billion on flowers this Valentine’s day, most of which will be roses, flown in from Columbia and Ecuador and then trucked around the United States.

So when you see me pushing dried flower bouquets and subscriptions for Valentine’s day, it’s in an effort to bring YOUR money back to the US floriculture industry. We can grow SO many beautiful flowers right here, support LOCAL farmers, AND have beautiful flowers!

We are approaching the dreaded V-word day 😬 and while it’s still winter (the person who decided a flower gifting holiday should be smack dab in the middle of winter was smoking some good stuff, man) and we only have a few scant hellebores blooming we DO have Everlasting Bouquets available! If you are looking to surprise a special someone, consider getting a 4 week flower subscription and adding on an everlasting bouquet. That way you get a lovely dried bouquet now and fresh blooms when they start coming! All available now in the online shop!

The big V-day is quickly approaching I’m not sure who decided to turn St. Valentines day into a holiday centered around gifting flowers but they were obviously not concerned with going with the flow of nature OR they lived in the southern hemisphere.

Either way they really screwed us local small scale flower farmers.

But we’ve come up with a work around…flower subscriptions! These packages allow us to pre-sell you bouquets and then deliver them once our fields actually have blooms.

All good things are worth waiting for, right…?

We have multiple options for frequency and price. You can get flowers every week, every other week, or once a month!

It’s the lull. The time we finally get to pause. Time not afforded to us during the rest of the year. Socially sanctioned time to rest…what a beautiful time.

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Purchasing our flower subscription in winter may seem counterintuitive, but it comes with unique benefits. By investing during the off-season you are:

🌱Securing Your Share: our subscriptions often sell out quickly during the growing season. Purchasing in winter ensures you secure your share of our heirloom flowers.

🌱Supporting the Farm: Your winter investment provides crucial financial support to our farm during a time when operational costs continue, but we have no blooms to sell.

🌱Planning and Preparation: we use winter for planning, purchasing seeds, and preparing the soil. Your investment contributes to these essential activities, ensuring a successful and bountiful harvest later in the year.

🌱Building Community Connection: Participating in our flower subscription creates a connection between you and our farm. You become part of a community that values sustainable agriculture, supporting local farmers in their efforts to provide fresh, seasonal products.

In essence, buying a flower subscription from our farm in winter is an investment in both the our sustainability and your future access to gorgeous heirloom bouquets.

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