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Orchard themed wedding at the historic Fruitlands Museum
Fruitlands is a gorgeous historical orchard in Harvard, MA, and was the site of an intentional community created by Louisa May Alcott’s father and their friends in the mid 19th century. It has walking trails, gardens, lots of information and artifacts about Transcendentalism, and it’s also the site of many a wedding, including Elizabeth and Herbert’s very colorful affair this past August! I LOVE the photos from this wedding. One reason is because Elizabeth and Herbert wanted COLOR for their flowers, and I love color. When we first talked they didn’t give me a color scheme, exactly, but a list of colors they liked, which I loosely translated into “the…
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Farm, flowers, and work work work work work work…2019 in review
2019, for me, was a year of work! Which is not a bad thing! If you’re doing work you love, you’re hardly working, am I right? Maybe. This was a year of exponential growth here at Passalongs Farm. I almost tripled my wedding work. I more than tripled my growing area. I built a studio that had electricity, air conditioning and heat!! I stopped doing farmers’ markets (mostly) but doubled the flowers I sold by the road. I hired people to help me! (That was a big step.) I put more money into my farm, but bought more product elsewhere. I started a reflowering project, where I re-made flowers from…
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About
Who we are: Passalongs Flower Farm in Florence, Massachusetts is a 1-acre, no-till, hand-dug, labor of love! We grow and sell cut flowers and plants and create heartfelt floral designs for all occasions. Our flower farm and floral design studio is located on the outskirts of the village of Florence, Massachusetts, which is part of the city of Northampton. Our owner and lead designer, Adrienne Bashista lives on the farm with her family. Half of the growing space is on her property. Half is leased from the city of Northampton and is part of the Mineral Hills Conservation area. ———— A note from Adrienne: As long as I can remember,…
