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Ranunculus is a little octopus corm in the buttercup family of Ranunculaceae. There are estimated to be about 1800 species in this family and we love many of...

We’ll assume you know and can imagine the toll that a major hurricane can take on a farm. The same it can take on a city and a home. Even those outside of...

The new season is here and the farm is turning with it. We’ve built quite a store of dried flowers and foliage to have for fall and winter arrangements and...

We debuted our first CSA this month, featuring dahlias. It has gone marvelously! Pick-up is from the farm at our flower barn shop every other Thursday, which...

Earlier this year, I shared that if it were not for floristry, I wouldn’t be a flower farmer. Tim and I do this farming bit to afford ourselves the resources...

We’re not talking about the candy kind. We’re talking about the sudden bursting of a soaker hose in the field or hoop house kind. Sometimes you’ll get one...

Heat. In particular, this Carolina heat that keeps hitting harder each year. It’s uncomfortable to us and to many of the hardy annuals and biennials that we...

We’re almost at the point where we’ll have our last plantings in the ground for fresh blooms to last through early November. Mums, celosia, amaranth, and the...

There’s a bit of a misunderstanding when it comes to flower farms and their aesthetics. Some of you know from experience that a working farm, whether for...

When we started this journey of being farmers, it was only blueberries we had in mind. That quickly developed into growing flowers, also, but with only one...

This fall, Tim and I are adding a new program to the farm - our first dahlia CSA! CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, is a way farmers and those in the...

I recently shared that I couldn’t imagine buying all of the flowers needed for our floristry offerings. I asked myself if I would be a florist if the farm...

Another busy week. Harvests were full this week and our seed trials are blooming with promise. Meet tweedia (above)! A perennial from South America and a...

The summer has us bubbling with fresh ideas for another season of events to welcome folks to the farm. We love meeting people and connecting over beautiful...

So very happy to share that the second agricultural well is done! Done! Finally! We let you know a couple of weeks back that we started an important...

Plants have a way of putting down roots in our lives, don’t they? It’s as if they want you to love them. They all have stories to share. The story of this...

Since January, Tim & I have been patiently seeing a vital farm project to fruition…installing a new agricultural well. Yesterday, a crew arrived to...

A new season always seems to make our lives busier, doesn’t it? Even the birds work and play a little more. The thrashers were especially rambunctious this...

It is a time of transition here at Hawk and Sparrow Flowers; beds are turning from spring to summer. May’s end saw us busy with harvesting spring wheat,...

Blueberry season is almost here! Starting June 12, Raceway Berry Farm berries will be ripe for your picking. Join us for the best local blueberries daily...