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Dream Acre Flower Farm, 146 W 400 N, Manti, UT (2025)

09/01/2025

As a kid, it didn't "feel" like back to school time until I felt the telltale bite of the first autumn-like morning--the unmistakable chill as I got out of bed and padded my way down the hall to the bathroom. I always loved when this unfailing sign actually happened ON the first day back, as if everything was just as it should be.

As I step into September as an adult (long past my school days), I still search for that first chill in the air--that sure promise that the frost is indeed on its way and that the fruits of my labors are racing towards their personal finish line. And as I've been required to don a jacket now in many of our early morning harvests, we have officially arrived just there.

For us, September means that we have a high likelihood of our first hard frost happening before the end of this month. It means the last of our weddings and events, and it means the rafters of our garage start filling up with fat bundles of celosia and marigolds and gomphrena and winged everlasting for hanging and drying. Our bouquets shift their color palette to the warm tones of fall, and I find that I kick myself for not growing pumpkins this year (yet again).

I adore September, and I thrill that we are here once again, together. Stay tuned for this most beautiful of months!!

Pictured: lisianthus, amaranth, sedum, echinacea, Virginia creeper

08/31/2025

"Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, 'No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.'"

- Brene Brown

Our 2025 season has been another one for the books (and we're not even done yet!). I'm proud of us for so many things this year, but most of all, I'm proud that we've kept the promise to ourselves and each other that we swore up and down in January -- that we would fight to gain back a sense of balance between life and farm, between family and work.

I didn't stumble across some magic productivity hack this year that meant I all of a sudden could do ALL the work AND do ALL the family stuff I wanted/needed to do in order to gain this balance. What I did do was:

***1 - stick to some pretty strict boundaries in order to gain back a sense of balance, and
***2 - cultivated a "sense of worthiness" as mentioned in the quote above, so that no matter what I got done (or not) each day, I could still be proud of myself for showing up and for sticking to my priorities, even when the fear part of my brain was sometimes screaming at me to never rest and to always relentlessly do more, more, more.

And much to my surprise, our business did not suffer because we allowed ourselves to rest a little more, to be more intentional about taking time off from the farm. In fact, our farm has only continued to grow this year, both in revenue and in productivity, and I couldn't be more proud of us. We had literally gotten to the point after last season that we were saying, "If we don't figure out a way to do this differently next season, we've got to stop farming."

So this is us, figuring out another way.

And if you want to know more of the details behind the shift, you can sign up for our newsletter that will be going out tonight talking all about the importance of keeping those promises to ourselves in life and in business. Simply comment BALANCE below, and I'll send you a DM to get you on the email list :)

P. S. This is an arrangement I made just for fun this weekend featuring 'Blizzard' dahlias, 'Ballerina' zinnias, 'Garuda Gold' marigolds, 'Rose Gold' celosia, 'Coral Fountains' amaranth, and tithonia 'Mexican sunflower.'

08/30/2025

Flower Farm Week 35 Recap (Aug 30):

As August wraps up, there are the first definite shifts into fall over here. We're ordering our first delivery of mushroom compost next week, our first fall-planted bulbs and corms started to arrive, and we are officially clearing out beds in order to make room for fall-planted seedlings and perennials.

But before we get *too* much into fall prep, we have to take advantage of the abundant August days while we have them!

Pic 1: A picture of me at the Utah Flower Market this last Wednesday with an armful of some of my favorite cosmos ("Cupcakes Blush"). The UFM has been overflowing this month with so much locally grown goodness! I'm in awe every week we bring our product in just how much beauty there is coming out of Utah flower farms this month.

Pics 2-4: Some of the abundance harvested to sell at this week's market through UFM. We had soooo much celosia, zinnias, cosmos, and more.

Pics 5-6: Lisianthus season is finally upon us and starting to edge towards its peak! Lisianthus kind of look like roses but have the most amazing vase life. They're an August and September staple for us!

Pic 7: We're doing fewer and fewer custom orders as time goes on because we're leaning into other avenues, but occasionally I'll still take on a special request or two, like this stunner of a wrapped bouquet!

Pic 8: Favorite color palette of the week (for a florist order this time)

Pic 9: Our big event was Friday's u-pick night, which is the only u-pick we're doing this season! It was a beautiful night, and I loved sharing the field with all the attendees.

Pic 10: Fall projects officially begin! This was the week we started ripping out the high tunnel in preparation for the ranunculus and anemones we'll soon be planting for spring blooms.

And that's a wrap on August!

08/29/2025

LAST CHANCE TO COME EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC OF OUR FLOWER FIELD!!

We only open our field one night per season to the public during peak abundance in August, and tomorrow night (8/29) is it for this year! We're hosting a Golden Hour U-Pick at 7 p.m. until the sun sets, and trust me, the sight of thousands of blooms waving in the wind as the sun goes down is one you're not going to forget.

Last year, one of our attendees said, "If I had known how amazing this was going to be, I would have brought a LOT more people!"

Tickets are $50 and include admission to the field and any 25 stems of your choice to cut. You can add on an additional two people to any full-price ticket for just $10 each (with no additional flowers). You must purchase a full price ticket (or be with someone with a full price ticket) in order to gain entry; purchasing add-on tickets solo is not allowed.

No children under age 8.

This is your LAST CHANCE to purchase tickets for this event -- ticket sales close at 5 p.m. on Friday or when our (capped) number of tickets runs out, whichever comes first.

You can buy yours right now through the link below:

https://www.dreamacreflowerfarm.com/shop/p/u-pick-full-ticket

08/24/2025

Flower Farm Weeks 33 & 34 Behind-the Scenes Recap (Aug 24):

Two words sum up the last two weeks:

Peak. Abundance.

We have been harvesting and moving seriously insane amounts of flowers, about 70% of which have been harvested by Matt (pic one). He has taken on the lion's share of the job so I can get the kids off to school in the mornings, which means he's been waking up in the 5 a.m. hour every day and harvesting until 11, when it's too hot to go on. And the man does it with a smile! Boy, I married well :) I will then harvest for a couple of hours in the evenings while he does the bedtime routine with our kids. It's kind of a crazy juggling act this time of year!

Picture 2: We hosted a private u-pick event almost two weeks ago, which was a beautiful and peaceful evening filled with neighbors, flowers, and bird song. It made me excited for our Golden Hour U-pick event happening next week, which is the only public one we have planned for this season! You can purchase your tickets here if you haven't already:

https://www.dreamacreflowerfarm.com/shop/p/u-pick-full-ticket

Pictures 3 & 4: In a rare and one-time event this season, every single one of our subscriptions happened to hit on the same week this last week. I usually can avoid this because our all-season subscribers get their bouquets every other week and our monthly subscribers get theirs in the middle of the month, so I've been able to swing it so that I usually have 3 out of 4 weeks with subscriptions, with one week off per month. This week because of how the weeks fell in July, it meant that the all-season subscribers landed on the same week as allllll the monthly subscriptions (for both Sanpete and Bountiful). Which. Was. Intense. I was able to slightly split it up into a few different days so that I wasn't making bouquets for more than 3-4 hours at a time, but it was still a pretty hectic week!

Our August bouquet subscriptions are always GIGANTIC because we're enjoying so much abundance that time of year that I want to make sure I show our subscribers some extra love and appreciation for supporting our farm in that special way. If you are a subscriber, THANK YOU for your support! It really helps us SO much during the winter months, and we love that chance to share our flowers and connect with you each month.

Photo 5: A better shot of about a third of our field of annuals, which is blooming its head off right now. This is the field where we take people to do our u-pick events.

Photo 6: A curated bucket for a special arrangement with a palette I particularly loved. The colors at this time of year are my favorite!

Photo 7: Our haul last week up to the Utah Flower Market on Wednesday. It's getting difficult to get a decent picture because we leave before the sun rises in order to get up to Grove Station on time! The past two weeks, our van has been packed wall to wall with buckets, and we've actually had to leave some buckets behind sometimes because we didn't have room for them all.

Photo 8: Matt has started taking "truck harvest haul" photos every time he comes back from the field to help us have a visual record of what was harvested when. They're quite fun just to scroll through!

Photo 9: Not all of our flowers sell, unfortunately, or even can be sold. Something I had to accept a long time ago as a farmer is the fact that during certain times, flowers will simply end up in the compost pile. We hustle as hard as we can to avoid waste wherever possible, but when it comes down to it, it still happens weekly. It's just part of the reality of farming!

08/22/2025

Next Friday, August 29th at 7 p.m., we are opening our field at golden hour for one night only to the public! This is a rare opportunity since we rarely open our working farm to visitors, but we've had so many people request after last year's golden hour u-pick that we decided to do it again this year!

Tickets are extremely limited and will be capped since parking is tight. To reserve your spot, go to our website in bio or through the link below to get that today!

https://www.dreamacreflowerfarm.com/shop/p/u-pick-full-ticket

Each ticket costs $50 and includes admission to the field, a demo by me on how to cut and curate your flowers for a stunning arrangement, and any 25 stems from the field of your choice. You may add on up to two people per full price ticket for $10 each, which will buy admission to the field but no additional flowers.

No children under age 8 allowed.

The field looks truly breathtaking at sunset, and trust us, this will be an evening to remember!

Let me know what questions you have, and I hope to see you next Friday 😘

08/21/2025

It is SUNFLOWER SEASON!! We're harvesting armloads a day of these gorgeous beauties! Pollenless, florist quality, and long-lasting. You can come by our self-serve cooler anytime from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and pick out any five stems for $10! Just look for the signs pointing you into the garage 👉

We're located at 146 W 400 N in Manti.

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