Meet our growers

Black Dog Blooms

Sangerville, ME

Black Dog Blooms Website

@black.dog.blooms

Black Dog Blooms is a family-owned, specialty cut flower farm focused on premium and unique varieties of flowers. Their goal is to bring luxurious, seasonal, and fresh blooms to their surrounding community that are grown naturally and sustainably.

Blossom Hill Farm is a “micro” farm, offering a depth of variety of flowers for more than one market. They choose to stay small in order to continue to offer their clients the best product they can produce. Operating on a 40-acre farm consisting of hayfields, an orchard, berries, vegetables, woodlands, and the Flower Farm, it also sits on some of the best soil for farming in the state of Maine. These precious soils are tended through the use of sustainable, organic practices that result in some of the best locally grown flowers in the seacoast area.

Blue Flag Farm

Buxton ME

Blue Flag Farm Website

@blueflagfarmmaine

Blue Flag Farm is named for the origin story of the road the farm is on, Flaggy Meadow Road, named for the presence of the native blue flag iris. For more than ten years Katie has been either working professionally in the horticulture and floral industry or teaching the subjects. With an eye towards sustainability and supporting other Maine and New England businesses, Blue Flag Farm aims to offer high quality flowers and florist services to clients from Maine and beyond.

Bounty O' Blooms

Limington, ME

Bounty O' Blooms Website

@bountyoblooms

Sarah has over 15 years of farming experience, eight of which she has been focusing on floral design. Sarah & her husband Andy employ organic and sustainable practices on their property overlooking the Saco River, transforming what was once a shrubby woodlot by opening up the land to more sunlight and feeding the soil to grow high quality flowers to use in floral design.

Broadturn Farm is located on land leased from the Scarborough Land Trust. Production varies by season but they actively cultivate about 9 acres with flowers being their main crop, along with some organic produce. They dedicate significant space for soil-improving cover crops improving the soil for their rotation of annuals and have several hoop-house structures in which they produce early and late crops.

Bumbleroot Organic Farm is located on unceded territory of the Wabanaki people. The land is now stewarded by two families - The Whalens and The Fishers. Both families live on the farm in Windham, Maine and together are learning what it means to be farmers and small business owners. They grow 7-8 acres of diversified vegetables, herbs and flowers on their 89 acre parcel, and sell directly to their local community.

Carolyn and her family grow flowers from April to Thanksgiving, starting with daffodils and hyacinths and ending with kales and dried flowers in holiday centerpieces. They specialize in textures, greens, pods, and lots of lovely flowers to adorn your home, office, and events with, creating a celebratory mood and connecting our human experiences to the natural world.

Cedar Mill Farm is a small diversified family farm in Exeter Maine, located northwest of Bangor. Having lived on their property for 30 years they began farming in earnest about 9 years ago. They are not certified organic but follow organic practices as much as possible – to provide themselves and their family and customers with the best tasting, most nutritious food. “Plants Rule” is their motto and flowers and foraged botanicals are a passion.

Chase’s Daily is a farm and marketplace with a restaurant specializing in vegan and vegetarian food options. They have grown flowers from the start, well before Chase’s Daily opened, and even before the days of the Belfast Farmer’s Market, flowers jostled for space with the food crops in their gardens. Today, they grow several acres of blooms, careful successions for a steady supply, which they market with their produce at Chase's Daily. Their flowers are sustainably grown and the diversity of their rows minimizes the challenge of pests and diseases, producing blooms that are fresh, strong, and clean. Growing, designing, and providing flowers for their mid-coast Maine community holds a singular place in their busy farm and restaurant work.

Dooryard Farm is a small family-run farm serving the Camden-Rockland area. Founded in 2013, they grow a diversity of vegetable crops and pasture-raised animals. They are MOFGA-certified organic and dedicated to an ecological approach to agriculture where their primary goal is building and maintaining soil fertility. In 2023, they purchased a local dahlia operation, Endless Summer Flower Farm and are now home to Dooryard Dahlias. Their dahlia field features thousands of plants and is open to visitors during the growing season.

Eastern River Farm, est. 2018, is a regenerative specialty cut flower farm specializing in growing & styling for wedding clients getting married in Maine. They grow regeneratively using zero harmful chemicals, and manage pests through the use of their animals and additional IPM strategies.  They are a woman-owned, veteran-owned, family-owned and run farm, and operate with a small workforce during the flower season.

Eden Street Flowers offers design, installation, and maintenance of landscape and cut flower gardens on Mount Desert Island. The cut flower side of the business provides seasonal flowers and foliage to their community as well as wholesale and retail to local florists and floral designers. The physical work, the ancient tradition of working the land, and the connection to seasons all lend themselves to a job that creates and often spreads joy to all our senses.

Jess is the one-woman show of Ethel’s Maine. All of the blooms she grows sit on an open acre of space at her home in Falmouth. She’s grown from seed since she was a young girl just the way her nana, Ethel, taught her. She doesn’t use harmful chemicals and loves to use local soil mixes and compost to feed the field.

Brie & Brendan established Fairlane Farm during the pandemic. They grow and sell specialty cut flowers direct to florists, event designers, and retail clients in the greater Portland area and beyond. While their business is mostly focused on the production of flowers, a central mission of their farm is to grow food and donate it to mutual aid organizations in Maine to feed their fellow Mainers. They have a goal to use 50% of their land in production in that effort.

Ferris Farm is a family-run cut flower farm located on 70 picturesque acres in Buxton, Maine. They grow specialty cut flowers for their community, create seasonally-inspired designs for weddings and special events, and ship their quality dahlia tubers nationwide. 

Flywheel Flowers located in the green, rolling hills of rural Waldo County. The farm encompasses fourteen acres with one cultivated acre in cut flowers. Farmer, Carole Mapes, specializes in fresh flowers for summer markets on Mount Desert Island and dried flowers for fall and winter fairs and festivals the rest of the year.

Tearsa, and her family own and run Fox Farm Flowers in North Berwick, ME. They find fulfillment in creating, and taking a seed and turning it into flowers is no exception. Their focus is to farm in a way that works with nature and a busy family life. They love what truly fresh flowers can be, and are proud to serve their community through farming.

Lee and her husband Phillip purchased the land that is now Fox Hollow Flowers in the summer of 2004 where they began cultivating the gardens just for themselves and became hooked once they realized what their farm could produce. For the last 6 years they have been growing flowers, expanding their farm with field beds and investing in longer-term plantings with perennials through sustainable & regenerative farming practices  in order to share the beauty and bounty of their land with their local community.

Fox Meadow Flower Farm is a 30 acre, sustainably grown, organic family farm located on the Kennebec River in Central Maine. They focus on growing specialty cut flowers for wedding and event design. These include unusual and heirloom varieties, and freshly harvested blooms that don’t carry the chemicals, pesticides and packaging that typically come with commercially grown flowers.

Good Buddy Farm started as a small, diversified vegetable farm in 2018. In 2019 Erin started to experiment with dried flowers and began growing over 40 varieties of dried flowers and ornamental grasses the next year. Now, they grow over 150 flower varieties to sell at their farm store & farmers markets, to local florists and for their own use in custom wedding & event design.

Becky & her husband Andrew purchased Hart Farm in 2019, choosing to keep the original name of the farm to honor the agricultural legacy of the Hart Family. They grow produce & flowers and raise their animals using organic and biodynamic practices, hosting on-farm dinners and providing the Greater Bangor Area with everything their farm has to offer.  

Lakehurst Farm is a family-run flower farm, established in 2022 in Manchester, Maine. Located in the hills above Lake Cobbosseecontee, their ancestral legacy was originally purchased by John Buswell in 1906 as a working dairy farm and summer inn. Today, six generations later, their three founding farmer families have come together after professional careers and child rearing to bring their land back into cultivation in a healthy and sustainable way. They nurture their soil in order to bring the very best, brightest and most interesting flowers to their community.

Sarah runs Lazy Acres Farm with her husband Andy, nestled on 40 acres in central Maine where their fresh flowers, pork & poultry are grown using sustainable practices including rotational grazing, low-till gardening and only use herbicides and pesticides approved for organic production. Sarah uses their specialty cut flowers in her wedding & event design work, as well as offering seasonal CSA options.

Molly and her partner Caleb run Little Red Flower Truck where they grow woody shrubs and perennials in permanent, no-till, raised beds at their home in Ellsworth and lease an acre of field space from Fountain Farm in Hancock to grow their annual crops. They grow more than 50 varieties of unique flowers, grasses and grains and line-dry about 30 of those varieties. Their fresh flower season begins in May and ends with the first frost in October. Dried flowers bring color and joy to the winter months and they also offer evergreen wreaths to round out the year.

Chelsie runs Live Simple Blooms where she grows specialty cut flowers on a small scale on her property in central Maine using no-till, environmentally friendly tools and practices and focuses on reintroduction of native species to the landscape and Dahlia tuber sales to her community and beyond.

Lost and Found Farm began when the Bruns family purchased a property that is attached to a fragment of what was once an expansive commercial blueberry field in Gray, Maine. In 2018, the farm was officially born as a Certified Organic blueberry operation. Lost and Found Farm now also grows cut flowers following organic practices, starting from seed and harvesting blooms at their peak. The flowers are sure to fill your home with beauty, as they do the fields in Dresden.

As flower farmers, Courtney and Ryan have the privilege of growing seasonal blooms that evoke feelings of connection and joy for our neighbors and friends from afar. They focus their eco-conscious efforts on establishing healthy, fertile soil—without the use of pesticides—to cultivate the most lush perennials, annuals, culinary herbs, and produce for their community.

New Beat Farm is a MOFGA Certified organic farm growing vegetables and cut flowers in the heart of Waldo county's rich agricultural community. Adrienne and Ken farm because it is the best way for them to live by their ideals and give back to the community. New Beat’s farming practices reflect their interest in building healthy self-sustaining communities, using horse power and transitioning to mostly no-till beds.

On the Mountain Farm is a small scale family farm in mid coast Maine specializing in high quality cut flowers for weddings, events, florists, designers, local businesses and the public.  They are committed to growing flowers in a manner that is harmonious with the natural environment from which they come. The farm grows over 100 different varieties of seasonal blooms that are available wholesale to designers, florists, and event planners.

Julia, Dennis and Holly Violette are owners of Paint Box Flower Farm located alongside the scenic Penobscot River in Orrington, Maine. The parents, Dennis and Holly, are both retired but as farmers know there is no such thing as retirement. Daughter Julia’s passion for flowers started with the planting of 300 peonies (72 varieties) for landscaping. From there the vegetable gardens soon became flower gardens. Julia specializes in day to day floriculture and planning varieties to grow. Our commitment is to growing sustainable high quality local cut flowers.

Quietside Flower Farm is a micro cut flower farm located in Southwest Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island. Caitlin and her husband David are committed to using sustainable, regenerative farming practices and nurturing pollinator habitats. They work and grow in concert with Mother Nature and, as such, their flowers are only available seasonally from approximately May through October.

Established in 2014, Salt Farm Flowers sits on the Union River Bay in a spot previously farmed by the Remick family from the early 1800s. What began as a few perennial rows and a roadside flower cart now spans nearly 3 acres of working cut flower fields, where the farm’s team tends to approximately 10,000 plants each year. All of their flowers are sustainably grown, using organic methods. Because of the farm’s unique location on the water near Acadia National Park, they take extra care to practice waterway- and pollinator-friendly methods that contribute to the sustainability of the region.

Seal Point Farm is a sustainable flower farm based in Lamoine and services the local Downeast region. They grow florals for all occasions, weddings, everyday, events, etc. They are excited to have their flowers shared throughout the Maine community and beyond.

Sprout and Bloom is a small flower farm in Cumberland, Maine. Owner Caroline Verrill turned her love for flowers into a small business providing local flowers to the community. Caroline has experience working with vegetable and flower farms in Maine. She also has completed the Floret Online Workshop specializing on growing cut flowers.

Suncatcher Flower Farm is a small, no-till, body powered certified organic cut flower farm in Brunswick, ME that specializes in fresh cut and dried flowers. They are passionate about land stewardship, sustainability, creativity, and working adaptively with the changing environment to intentionally provide local organic quality flowers to our neighbors, to wholesale markets from Portland to the midcoast, and to market and fairgoers statewide.

Sweethaven farm grows a wide variety of field-grown cut flowers and arrangements. They are invested in practicing self-sufficiency and sustainability on a micro scale. The farm uses minimal plastic, including deciding not to use high tunnels to extend their floral growing season.