Gardening Innovations You Can Try at Home

For those of us living in certain areas of the Northeast, the first snow just fell. It landed gently on the evergreen trees. Icicles formed in gutter pipes and the...

Tulips are a revelation, and at Bear Creek Farm we see part of our role as shining a light on the more exotic double tulips. These varieties tend to bloom...

A common specific question often posed to me concerns the difference between American grown Dahlia tubers and their Dutch tuber counterparts. In short, while there are differences in production, the...

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...

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....

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...

“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...

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...