Extending the Lives of Cut Flowers Too often, people think that cut flowers need to be perfect to be displayed. Many perceive that if a stem bends, a petal droops, or an arrangement begins to look... Read More
Cutting and Caring for Your Dahlias In the Northeast dahlias are running late this year. (No, it is not you – keep on watching your beds.) Nature does not keep perfect time, but nor do we.... Read More
Flower Farming: Understanding Risk as Net Positive Flower farming requires those who commit to the practice to acknowledge, at the outset, that we are largely at the mercy of elements beyond our control. This necessarily requires a... Read More
Making Real the Nature Fix “We don’t experience natural environments enough to realize how restored they can make us feel, nor are we aware that studies also show they make us healthier, more creative, more... Read More
Novice Growers: 7 Reasons Zinnias Are Your Best Friend Here at Bear Creek Farm, as harbingers of high summer creep gently in, we love nothing more than to see people who have never grown flowers before feeling called to try... Read More
Tending Peonies - A Basic Grower's Guide Peonies mark summer. As the weather turns warm, the earth roars quietly back. Suddenly, there are colors. The trees spring into bloom, and the tendrils of grass push up. The... Read More
Don't Squeeze the Bud: Three Ways to Extend the Life of Your Cut Peony Nothing marks the gentle return of summer like a peony. At Bear Creek Farm, we are obsessed with this extraordinary flower - and always moved to write about them. Their... Read More
Self Care and Finding Ourselves in Nature At Bear Creek Farm, we nurture (natural) beauty from the ground up. Perhaps an unstated extension of that ethos is our wish to cultivate (personal) beauty from the inside out. Indeed,... Read More
