Three Acre
Flower Farm · Hudson ValleyDahlias, zinnias, cosmos · September · the north fieldGrown here.
Cut that morning.
Wedding flowers from our own three acres outside Germantown, New York. No sprays, no cold chain, no flowers flown in. Just what’s blooming in the field the week you get married.
Her bouquet
Dahlia rows
The barn, 6 am
- MayTulips
- JunPeonies
- JulZinnias
- AugDahlias
- SepCosmos
- OctAsters
Farm weddings from $2,800May to October · $300 holds your dateHold your date
★★★★★ 5.0 from 88 couples 240 kinds of flowers on three acres No sprays since 2012
What’s in bloom
Pick your month. See your flowers.
We can only cut what the field is giving that week. Here is what it gives, month by month, from the first hoop-house ranunculus to the frost.
Ranunculus and anemones under plastic while the field thaws. Small, early, very pretty weddings.
Ranunculus · Anemones · Tulips
Coral, apricot and cream tulips by the thousand, then the first peony buds at the end of the month.
Ranunculus · Anemones · Tulips · Peonies
Two weeks of peonies, the most asked-for flower we grow. Book June early; they go fast and so do we.
Peonies · Sweet peas · Snapdragons
The field turns hot: zinnias, sunflowers, snapdragons and the last sweet peas. Bright, generous, a lot of color.
Sweet peas · Snapdragons · Zinnias · Sunflowers · Cosmos · Strawflower · Grasses
The dahlias open. From now until frost the field gives more than we can cut.
Snapdragons · Zinnias · Sunflowers · Cosmos · Dahlias · Strawflower · Grasses
Our favorite month. Dahlias at their best, cosmos waist-high, cool mornings, the Catskills blue behind it all.
Snapdragons · Zinnias · Sunflowers · Cosmos · Dahlias · Strawflower · Grasses · Asters
Asters, mums and the last dahlias against turning maples, until the first hard frost ends the season.
Zinnias · Cosmos · Dahlias · Strawflower · Grasses · Asters · Mums
Weddings
Three ways to bring the farm to your wedding.
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Farm buckets$95 a bucket
For couples who arrange their own. About sixty stems a bucket in your colors, cut Friday morning, picked up at the barn.
- Six buckets or more
- A how-to card and a free lesson Friday
- Buckets come back, the flowers don’t
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Personal flowersfrom $1,200
The bouquets and boutonnieres, made by Ruth in the barn the morning of and driven to your venue in the blue truck.
- Bridal bouquet and four bridesmaids
- Six boutonnieres, two corsages
- Delivered within 40 miles
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The whole farm weddingfrom $2,800
Everything from the field: personal flowers, the tables, the ceremony. We set it up, and we take it all back to the compost.
- Personal flowers
- Tables for up to 120 guests
- Ceremony arch or aisle, set and cleared
Free delivery within 40 miles of the farm, then $2 a mile. Extra boutonnieres $20, flower crowns $65, a bud vase for the bar $15.
The week of
From the field to your table.
- SpringWalk the rows
Come out to the farm on a Saturday. We walk the field, you point at colors, and we plan around what will bloom that week.
- ThursdayCut at dawn
Abe cuts from five until the sun is on the rows. Everything goes straight into cold water.
- FridayRest in the cooler
Stems rest overnight in the old milk room Abe turned into a cooler. Ruth builds the bouquets at first light.
- SaturdayInto the blue truck
We drive it all to you, set the tables and the arch, and come back at midnight for the buckets.
The farm
We’re Ruth and Abe. This is our field.
Ruth taught high school biology in Poughkeepsie for nineteen years. Abe built kitchens. In 2011 we bought the last three acres of an old dairy farm outside Germantown, with a leaning barn and a milk room nobody had opened since the eighties.
The first summer we grew zinnias for a card table at the end of the driveway. In August a neighbor’s daughter asked if we could do her wedding. We said yes before we knew how, cut forty buckets in the rain and drove them over in the truck. She still stops by the stand every Saturday.
Now there are 240 kinds of flowers in the field, a hoop house, and peonies we planted in 2012 that are as tall as Ruth. Abe turned the milk room into the cooler. We do about thirty weddings a year, one a weekend, so the field never gets cut thin.
Ruth & Abe
Lately
Last September, out of the north field.
Tivoli, SeptemberDahlias, cosmos and zinnias in jars, 140 guests
An orchard in Red Hook, SeptemberApple-branch arch, dahlias, grasses
Germantown, SeptemberCoral and burgundy dahlias, white cosmos
The barn tableA bouquet for a Saturday in August
5.0 from 88 couples.
“Our guests kept asking where the flowers were from. We pointed out the window at the field.”
Grace and Owen · Germantown, August“We walked the rows with Ruth in April and she was right about every single thing that would bloom in September.”
Talia · Tivoli, September“Six buckets, four friends and a Friday afternoon. Best part of the whole weekend.”
Nell and Sam · Kingston, July
Where
Outside Germantown, between the river and the hills.
Saturdays, May to October, 9 to 3. Bouquets from $18 in jars, buckets for the week, and whoever of us isn’t cutting. Come walk the rows before you book.
Questions
Things couples ask us at the stand.
How do I hold my date?
Pick your date below and pay the deposit: $300 for personal flowers or a whole wedding, $100 for buckets. It comes off the total, and the rest is due two weeks before.
Can I choose the exact flowers?
We promise colors and a feeling, not varieties. The weather decides the rest. Tell us “coral and burgundy, loose and garden-y,” and we’ll pick the best of what the field gives that week.
What if there’s a frost, or hail?
It happens about once every few years. We grow more than we need, keep a hoop house as backup, and trade with two farms down the road. You’ll get flowers.
Do you spray?
No. We haven’t used a synthetic spray since we started in 2012. You’ll find the odd ladybug in a bouquet, and we think that’s fine.
Can we get married at the farm?
We’re a working farm without a venue license, so no. But we can bring the farm to you, orchard branches and all.
What about November to March?
The field sleeps. We do a few winter weddings with dried flowers from our barn, evergreens and branches. Ask.
Book
Hold your date. One wedding a weekend.
We take one wedding each weekend, May to October, so the field is yours that week. September Saturdays go first. Pick your date and we’ll call you back after the morning cut.
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