About The Farm
Big dreams, small farm.
Sometimes you have to make a mess before you can make something beautiful.
Why A Cut-Your-Own Farm?
It began as an inkling of an idea and rapidly grew into a frenzied obsession: “I must bring a cut-your-own flower farm to our small town!” I could not get the dream out of my head. Inspired by a little roadside cutting spot in the Finger Lakes, I started planning.
I wanted to share the joy that I feel when harvesting blooms that have been carefully nurtured from seeds or bulbs. The farm is about offering others an experience that they may not be able to create on their own. There is something magical about stepping into a field brimming with color and fragrance, that is buzzing with bees and butterflies. To slowly walk through rows of flowers to carefully select your own recipe for a bouquet. It is an experience that forces one to slow down, savor the natural beauty and harvest flowers with intention. This experience is why I wanted to bring Honeybee Grove to reality.
Background
While juggling a growing farm with the needs of a young family is hard, it’s worth it. We are a very small business with big ideas and a field full of opportunities ahead. My background is in marketing and graphic design so it was easy for my to apply my professional experiences to an idea of my own.
I wanted to build a space that was inspirational to visitors. I have always loved and grown flowers, but not everyone has a green thumb. I wanted to make a floral experience that was attainable for the public who may not have the interest or means to grow flowers themselves but appreciate their beauty. People come to the farm for the experience as much as for the flowers. Our unique location on coveted green space in the middle of the commercial town buildings is not only incredibly convenient and helpful for marketing purposes – but it is also surprising and unexpected. Each year we grow bit by bit adding new gardens, trying new plantings, adding new events.
I believe in bringing people together within a community. Our two larger artisan markets at the beginning and end of our season extend an opportunity to local artisans, artists and makers to sell their wares to the surrounding community. With the success of our larger markets, that reach a wider audience, I was eager to bring the town its own centrally located Farmer’s Market. It gives our surrounding farms and food-product makers a weekly space to sell their crops and goods. It gives our community a chance to buy locally raised meats, locally grown produce and support small businesses from their own community.
Our small town in Westchester County has a whimsical and notable backstory. Our historic Elephant Hotel building, which is now home to our town offices, was once a social hub of balls, soirees and dancing. Somers’s pride as the "Cradle of the American Circus” is derived from the fact that many an exotic animal was kept in the lands surrounding the town as part of some of the earlier traveling menageries.
Present day, tucked in behind the commercial buildings that flank the historic Elephant Hotel, is a parcel of green space that is not yet developed. It is land that was once part of a larger working vegetable farm that spanned much of the town. So, in 2021, when I felt the itch for a new adventure while simultaneously obsessing over the idea of a cut-your-own flower farm – Honeybee Grove Flower Farm was born.