Cut Flowers, Lavender & Flower Farms

Nineteen flower farms across ten counties, growing cut flowers the old way: in the field, often without chemicals, and picked the morning they're sold. Many sell bouquets at farmers' markets, several offer flower CSAs so you get fresh blooms all season, and a few let you pick your own. It's one of the fastest-growing kinds of small farm in the region.

Cut-flower farms

Doodlebug Flower Farm in Athens is a micro boutique farm growing hundreds of flowers in raised beds without chemicals or pesticides, with a year-round flower CSA. Also in Greene County, Hanncroix Hill Farm in Climax is a veteran-owned family farm growing specialty cut flowers, Vernon Street Farm grows flowers and vegetables right in the village of Athens, and Grace Rose Flowers in Prattsville is a regenerative farm with a CSA. Misty Meadows Flower Farm in Cherry Valley grows unique and heirloom flowers without chemicals from May through October, with local delivery around Cooperstown and Oneonta.

• Breezy Hill Blooms — Hoosick Falls. A flower farm with CSA shares, plus trees and wreaths at the holidays.
• Balet Flowers and Design — Malta and Native Farm Flowers — Greenfield Center.
• Monet Flower Farm & Floral Design — Hobart. Certified organic.
• Haven Hill Farm — Greenwich.
• Six Dutchess Farm — Dutchess County. A flower and fiber farm with a seasonal flower CSA.
• Honey Dog Farm — Hillsdale. Certified organic flowers, vegetables, and honey.
• Homegrown Kitchen Gardens — Tarrytown. A certified organic nursery with cut flowers alongside heirloom transplants.

Pick your own

Several farms let you cut your own. Gardenworks Farm in Salem, a fourth-generation, 300-acre farm, has u-pick cut flowers alongside blueberries and raspberries, with a marketplace in a renovated dairy barn. East Durham Farms offers u-pick flowers in season along with apples and peaches, and Barton Orchards in Poughquag includes flowers among its long list of pick-your-own crops.

Lavender

Lavenlair Farm in Whitehall is a lavender farm selling plants, herbs, and preserves. In Sharon Springs, Sharon Sprigs Fine Dried Florals is the shop of Slate Hill Lavender Farm, where the growers dry their own flowers and lavender and handcraft wreaths and arrangements. Lavender Fields at Maxwell Farm in Delhi has a farm store with flowers, herbs, honey, and baked goods.

A few practical notes

Flower season generally runs from late spring through the first hard frost, and what's blooming changes week to week. Flower CSAs often sell out in winter or early spring, so sign up early. For u-pick, bring clippers and a bucket of water if you can, and pick in the cool of the morning so stems last longer. Many small flower farms don't have a farm stand, so check each listing for where they sell.

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A bucket of just-cut stems on the passenger seat, and the whole car smelling like summer.