Back Forty Flower Farm

04/22/2025

🌷The 2025 Flower Season is Here! 🌷

The tulips took their sweet time blooming this spring, but these warmer temps have given them the boost they need to finally BLOOM!

Be the first to get your hands on these gorgeous locally grown spring tulips! Our FOUR week spring flower subscription AND the once a month bouquet subscription (one bouquet a month for six months) START THIS WEEK!

Subscriptions are a perfect way to welcome in the beautiful days ahead or the perfect gift for mom, grandma, or a special friend!

There are just a few spots left in both the spring and monthly subscriptions, so please message if you are interested and I’ll send you all the details!

04/19/2025

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It’s no surprise that I love flowers… but locally grown flowers by are my ABSOLUTE favorite. Picked and delivered in the same day?! Yes please! These are in the store now and ready to be on your Easter table 🌷♥️

04/09/2025

Minnesota be “Minnesotaing” this week 🤪
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Last week at this time, we were middle of a snow storm and local schools and business were closed….today, it’s a whole new world and cool season seedlings made there way into the outdoor fields! 🙌
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And the tulips aren’t far from blooming! ☺️🌷
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Anemones, stock, nigella, scabiosas, strawflower, and feverfew almost all planted!! 🌱

With the extended forecast looking 👌….I waisted no time getting my hands dirty.
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Next up is seeding warm season annuals such as zinnias, celosia, sunflowers, marigolds and more.
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P.S. Many of you have been inquiring, and I’m working on the final pieces, online signups for 2025 flower subscriptions will be available real soon! ☺️

03/29/2025

What the summer blooms currently look like on the farm 😉

This time of year, it’s a game of Timing, Tetris, and Trialing all in anticipation and hopes for a bountiful season of beautiful blooms to share with our community.

One of the first year of growing, Charlie built this grow room in our basement for our seed starting….we quickly realized it wasn’t going to be enough space 🙃 so im currently organizing and building more shelving in the basement to accommodate for more plants 🌱

Some of the seedlings shown are statice, celosia, scabiosa, presprouted dahlia tubers, tomatoes, and peppers.

03/24/2025

I can’t think of a flower that gets more comments and questions from flower friends than LISIANTHUS 🤩

We just finished planting out over 1,000 plants of these gorgeous stems for August and September blooms!

I often get asked if we have roses, and in our growing zone and conditions it’s nearly impossible for me to grow cut flower roses on a scale that makes sense…..lisianthus make a wonder alternative with 3-9 blooms per a stem! Plis they will last 2+ weeks in a vase 🙌

03/22/2025

Every year, I try growing new to me varieties while also focusing on improving what I already have on my must grow list.

On the must grow list - Ranunculus!

After having the high tunnel, these beautiful blooms have have become a spring staple on the farm. This year, about half the tunnel is planted in ranunculus of all colors and varieties! 🤩

Spring is going to be beautiful!

P.S. I’m working on launching our flower subscriptions very soon! Subscription holders get first choice of the flowers and it’s one of my favorite ways to share our flowers from the farm ☺️💐

03/22/2025

This past week I took some time going through our 2025 calendar, on it..WEDDINGS! 💐☺️

When I first started, I was extremely intimidated by wedding florals. I turned down quite a few….until I finally decided to “say yes”!
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And now our 2025 schedule is almost booked out with amazing couples and families choosing to support locally grown blooms for their special day.
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It’s going to be a wonderful and beautiful season ahead, and I look forward to growing and designing for these very special events.
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I have just a couple weekends available in August for current openings for the 2025 season, so if you or someone you know is looking for fresh florals for their wedding, feel free to DM or email at [email protected].

Also currently taking bookings for 2026 😉

03/17/2025

💐Hello Flower Friends!💐

After a winter’s break from Facebook and the flower fields, we are all hands on deck for the 2025 season!

This week was our official start to the season where we finally got our hands on the soil and started planting after a long winter of planning.

Thanks to all the helping hands, we got thousands of ranunculus and anemones planted for May blooms, started thousands of seeds for summer florals, and even got hundreds of pereninals in the ground before the snow flew again 🙌

The 2025 flower field is going to be the best yet 💐

More to come soon…..

Keep blooming,
Brianna

03/08/2025

Thanks Twyla and Market on Main for a wonderful evening! ☺️

Mark your calendars for May 10tg (Mothers Day weekend!) for the next one 💐😉

https://www.facebook.com/61556192900349/posts/122216604350206430/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Tonight was a dream come true for me 🥰 I’ve wanted to host nights like these at Market on Main and seeing it happen was truly magical ✨

Thank you to these amazing women and for a beautiful evening 🫶

Mark your calanders.. another one is coming May 10th for Mother’s Day!

11/30/2024

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY!! 💐

The farmstand is open for flower friends and PEONY ROOTS were just added to the stand!!

$20!!

These roots will last generations and produce the most beautiful coral blooms 😍

They can still be planted by using a drill auger OR you can store them until spring when the ground thaws OR you can plant in a pot! However you plan to grow them, this is a wonderful deal for beautiful peonies to add to any garden….they are wonderful for your mom, sister, or friend who is hard to shop for 😉

Plus, there’s still plenty of goodies available. With a purchase of $50 or more, grab yourself a FREE bag of bulbs!!

Have a wonderful day flower friends! 💐

11/29/2024

🎉BLACK FRIDAY WEEKEND 🎉

The farmstand is open! Dried florals, tulip and allium bulbs, farm tshirts and hats, gift certificates, and 2025 bouquet subscription signups!!!

Ranunculus and dahlia tubers also available upon request - it’s just too cold to have them sitting in the stand.

Purchase $50 or more from the stand and floral a FREE bag of tulips or allium! 🌷

Cash, check, Venmo Al accepted at the stand.

📍23210 261st Ave Long Prairie

11/29/2024

If you missed it - our farm stand will be open for Black Friday/ Small Business Saturday! Here is a glimse of what you'll find in the stand along with the first details about our 2025 bouquet subscriptions!! This weekend's pricing will be the best deal available! Once the subscriptions hit the website in a few weeks, the price will go up 🙂

Gift certificates for 2025 growing season also available!

If you purchase $50 or more at the stand, you can grab a FREE bag of tulip bulbs OR ranunculus corms!!

📍Farmstand is located AT OUR FARM at 23210 261st Ave Long Prairie, MN

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!

As a small business, we truly appreciate all our flower friends who make running our flower farm possible! As a farmer-“florist”, it means the world to me that your trust me and our farm flowers for your floral needs! I know it can be cumbersome sometimes to order fresh blooms from our farm as we are not usually open to the public. It takes an extra effort to contact us and order for your specialty cut flowers, and that doesn’t go unnoticed! With it being such a big weekend for local friends shopping small and attending our local craft fair, we wanted to offer an opportunity to support our farm while your in town doing your shopping…so our farmstand will be open!!

Here are the details:

🎉 Black Friday Weekend Sale at the Back Forty Flower Farm Farmstand! 💐

Date: Friday, November 29 – Sunday, December 1

TIME: sunrise to sunset

Location: self serve at 23210 261st Ave Long Prairie, Mn 56347

Here’s what you’ll find at the stand:

Bulbs, Back Forty Flower Farm Tshirts, a few Christmas wreaths, dried florals, gift certificates, 2025 bouquet subscriptions sign ups, and more!

P.S. I also will have dahlia tubers available. 🙌

Unfortunately due to the cold temperatures, I won’t have the tubers set out as they can’t freeze. If you wish to have dahlia tubers of the dinner plate variety BREAKOUT. Message me before stopping, and I’ll set them out!

With every purchase of $50 or more, you can grab a FREE bag of bulbs!
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💬 Have questions? Message us or call/text at 320-533-0087

Shop small, support local , and experience the farmstand one last time before the spring!

11/26/2024

The OFFICIAL official end of fresh cut flowers on the farm. Last night our high tunnel finally got hit with a hard freeze, which means so did the final flowers I had in there. I was hanging onto a few plants just to say I grew my own Thanksgiving flowers 💐

We cut a bouquet yesterday to put on our table for this weekends festivities and totally forgot to bring it inside 😭 It was still quite the accomplishment to say I had fresh flowers blooming up until November 25th in zone 4 Minnesota! 🤯

P.s. keep you eyes open for a special post about this weekend and our flower farm offerings from our farm stand for Black Friday and Small Business Saturday 🎄

11/18/2024

The nice fall weather has allowed me to take my time with fall planting…which I’m so thankful for!

Our spring tulips are finally done being planted! If you didn’t know, we grow tulips as annuals and it’s always a big project to get them all planted. Thankful for extra helping hands this season to get the job done ✅

3,500 in our high tunnel
3,500 in our outdoor field space
1,000 in crates that will be brought into the high tunnel in the spring to manipulate their bloom time 😉

Spring is going to be beautiful! 🌷💐