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Located in rural Scotland, Connecticut, Brown Farm is focused on growing high quality cut flowers for wholesale markets. Find our flowers at the CT Flower Collective, and seasonal bouquets at the Willimantic Food Co-op!

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Oh heyyyy. #youcute

Oh heyyyy. #youcute

Big ass bonfire 🔥 kids jumping off of roofs. Ha

Big ass bonfire 🔥 kids jumping off of roofs. Harvesting the biggest daffodil bouquets for the house. Happy Thursday.

#illdrinktothat

Finally catching up on seeding since the weather h

Finally catching up on seeding since the weather has #calmedthefuckdown
Feeling fancy in the seed shack with tulips that couldn’t wait for me to finish my coffee before getting past prime harvest stage. They sure are pretty though 🤩

#sayitwithflowers #evenifyouretalkingtoyourself

First drop off of the season to @willimanticfoodco

First drop off of the season to @willimanticfoodcoop this morning! Cutest spring bunches of specialty narcissus and elegant tulips.

#grownconnected #heartctgrown #localflowers #cuteaf #romanticwillimantic

My reward for not cleaning out the cooler and turn

My reward for not cleaning out the cooler and turning her on? These are going in the kitchen next to all the dirty dishes so I can smile. #astronautandrekuipers #sweetprocrastination

Photo dump, farm highlights from the last month or

Photo dump, farm highlights from the last month or so (or at least what I remembered to take a picture of). Painted the old rabbitry into a new seed starting shack with cheerful sunshine and juicy rainbows. Got the second cat tunnel up, then decided to move it. Got the bebe plants in the tunnel covered, but still have to prune the figs. I’ve checked on neither since the rollercoaster of temps bottomed out: It’s like Schrödinger’s cat - overwinter flowers edition.

Early November photo dump. Got tulips in the gro

Early November photo dump.

Got tulips in the ground as soon as the irrigation trenches were filled (check out that subsoil next to the beds- it was on top of the beds🙃)

Planted garlic. BAMFin seed this year.
Used my leek dibbler. Dude I love this thing. Ive planted leeks, sweet potatoes, daffodils and now garlic. In the last pic- the first set of boards were to adjust the depth for daffodils (I still had to dig out each dibble alittle for the bulbs but still better than a trench) and I added the last board for the garlic depth.

Harvesting turnips for the root cellar. I’m really good at harvesting one type of root crop every year waaaay after markets. This year it’s turnips 🥳

Selfie setting rebar for cat tunnel number two. Woot woot. Got them in before the ground froze.

@softwarefarmer #thebigdig #tootiredproject

@softwarefarmer #thebigdig #tootiredproject

The perfect cut flower for your favorite Shield Ma

The perfect cut flower for your favorite Shield Maiden. #zuluwarrior #prickly

Aurora hot peppers; sexy and spicy 🌶 I’ll hav

Aurora hot peppers; sexy and spicy 🌶 I’ll have whole plants already hung with jute in a variety of sizes @willifarmersmarket tomorrow! Hang in your kitch and let her dry naturally and you’ll have hot peppers in gold, orange, white, red and purple for Autumn and Winter, warming you up from the inside out.

#spicylikeme #itsfallmotherfuckers

This photo pretty much sums up the season 🌻no

This photo pretty much sums up the season
🌻no one has the support/help they need (plants and farmer alike)
🌻by August end there’s no clear path/direction - just keep going
🌻flowers are taking over
🌻a single picture on Instagram doesn’t ever tell the whole story, but hopefully when I look back on this photo in the Winter I’ll long for the lushness of Summer; the weeds, sweat, blood, and tears a distant memory.

I/we/you made it to September. It’s going to be ok. #itsbeenreal

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Winter squash curing time! The personal butternut

Winter squash curing time! The personal butternut #cutestshitever

Fresh happiness dropped off @willimanticfoodcoop t

Fresh happiness dropped off @willimanticfoodcoop this morning! #makesomeonesday #ctflowers

I didn’t think my love and enthusiasm for @wild_

I didn’t think my love and enthusiasm for @wild_garden_seed lettuce could be surpassed. (Many a customer has not expected to embark on a 10 minute conversation when they ask “what kind of lettuce is this?” ) but here is the Mrihani x Opal F4 Basil population and I’m crushing on her hard 😍 The diversity of leaf shapes, textures, color, the FRAGRANCE. #swoon A little slow out the gate, but so worth the wait. #basilloversunite

I was ready to give up on finding the perfect red

I was ready to give up on finding the perfect red cherry tomato. Seriously, over the years I’ve only at best found mediocre. This year I tried two- one of them is the holy grail. Meet Sweet Aperitif! Sweet, tomato-y, and you can fit like 24 in your mouth at one time. Also, she fruits like I farm - chaos-trusses! All directions all the time! Fruits in my hand are Pink Princess and Honey Drop with the Sweet Aperitif in the middle: the #threemusketeers and probably the only cherries I’ll ever need.
Special shout-out to the Hoss harvest bucket STRAPS- I use these babies for EVERYTHING (including my rice sack filled with trellis clips!) #simplesolutions #farmsmart #tomatotalktuesday

If only I had realized I needed to harvest tomatoe

If only I had realized I needed to harvest tomatoes BEFORE market today 🙄 at least they’re finally coming in faster than I can eat them. #opalka #pastetomatobaby

Somehow only got a few pics of the bouquets I drop

Somehow only got a few pics of the bouquets I dropped off @willimanticfoodcoop this morning but there were so many different ones this week including Peach Vibes and one that yells Pomegranate Cocktail. Also some zinnia and #cosmoslove 🤪 #getflowers #localflowers

Just look at it. I love leeks. #igrewdis

Just look at it. I love leeks. #igrewdis

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