Rocket Rabbit Farm
Floris Agricola***Flower Farmer***Flower Futurist
05/13/2023
Folks - I will not be at market today. I was hoping there’d be enough tulips left to stretch into and for this Mother’s Day weekend - but we have reached the end of our spring tulip season 😩
I was definitely reluctant to get back to it in March and April - as my work with flowers is so deeply aligned and imbibed with my mother’s spirit - and my grief over her loss ebbs and flows like a distant but possibly impending storm on the horizon.
But I was *nurtured* by the delight so so many of you have shown me this spring through our shared love of flowers -
So thank you, thank you, thank you!!! For showin this gal a good time throughout this season!!! Thank you CSA subscribers for your early-bird love - I hope you enjoyed your subscriptions!! Thank you for hosting our pop-ups and to alllllll the visitors and vendors who show up!!
The collective joy has been like communion for me
Here’s to a lovely weekend and stay tuned for possible events in the future
❤️🌷💗💐
05/05/2023
Folks - not gonna lie - I am tired. My back is lil achey from the crazy amounts of tulips I’ve processed over the past couple of days for tomorrow’s first outdoor
But it’s delightfully worth it!! It’s the 4th and final week of the Spring CSA and I’ll have A LOT of tulips including some colors and textures you cannot get at TJs or big box stores - which have great floral selections for cheap - but are like an hour away.
Every time you buy something from a local farmer who brings goods to the market they’ve produced - you’re supporting and stimulating your local economy!! That’s money spent in our community that gets circulated locally!! Plus it reduces carbon emissions bc you’re not buying products brought in by planes, trains and automobiles!!
So again for the new ppl and cats and pups in the back - I’ll be at the market fresh and ready with a boatload of tulips at 8 am to 1 pm tomorrow!!
05/03/2023
Popping-up early at Wednesday morning at 8:30 am!! That’s tomorrow!!
Our selections move into more dramatic colors as we near the end of our season - like these bright striped parrots above!
But we’ll have a lil of the sweet pastel palette colors tomorrow am too!!
Saturday you better come up to the first outdoor at Howard Park of the season!! 8 am to 1 pm!!
We’re bringing alllll the colors for you!!
Aaaaaand it’s the final week of our Spring CSA
So for the love of flowers - come through and say hi tomorrow at the bakery and Saturday at the market!!
04/29/2023
Apologies for the lack of posting - but with all these lovely tulips coming up I have been *hustling* to get everything ready for CSAs, Saturday market and Wednesday pop-up flower shops around town!!
Whaaat? Pop-up flower shops?!? Yesss!!! I’ve been visiting all the fun places around town like the and the past couple Wednesdays and set-up to bring you allll the delicious blooms at fire sale prices!!
It has been so sweet to share support with all our divine local businesses we have in our lil community!!
Next Saturday, May 6, will be the first day of outdoors at Howard Park - and the last day of our Spring CSA. We’ll have a dramatic selection of moody blossoms and then…well it’s hard to say if the weather and the tulips in the ground will conspire to offer flowers for Mother’s Day or not- so stay tuned as we await the arrival of the peonies!!
But until then, we’ll have a pop-up Wednesday, May 3, at in the morning - so set a reminder NOW to come through!! Come grab a cup of coffee and a baked good and some flowers!!
And then we’ll do at least the first market outside…but after these spring beauties are done - you’ll not see us for a lil bit - so come see me while you can!!
04/22/2023
It’s day!! Come see me!! Come pick up your CSA!! 9am to 12
200 S Main
04/19/2023
We’re doing a lil Pop-Up Flower Shop tonite from 4-?
Grab a pizza and some flowers and make someone lucky tonite!!
🌷❤️💕💐
04/14/2023
Flower loving friends!! We will be at the Fairfield Farmer’s Market tomorrow at 9 am!!
Spring CSA subscribers - if you haven’t checked your email - front and center - Week 1 starts NOW!!
We’re so excited to be kicking off our season that we wanted to share with everyone so we’ll be offering free Lil Bo Peep bouquets - like the ones above - while supplies last!!
It all starts at 9 am at the Golden Magnolia Sanctuary, formerly the First Presbyterian Church, 200 S Main
See you there? ❤️🌷💕💐❤️
03/15/2023
Wooo hooo!!! Our shop is OPEN for 2023 CSA sales!!
With spring so close, you can almost taste it, we’re excited to offer you the best blooms of the season with our 2023 Spring CSA!!
A spring subscription gets you 4 weeks of luscious bouquets chock full of spring’s floral bounty!!
Come through to sign-up for today!!
❤️🌷🌸🧡🪷💛💚💐💙🌺💜
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03/08/2023
Hellllllloooo flower lovers - I know it’s been a long time and so much has happened since last summer!!
But we thought, now that the red-winged blackbirds and turkey buzzards are reappearing - so should we…
Fall and winter were weird. As soon as we finished planting thousands of bulbs and started settling in for a rest, my mother passed away. She was my inspiration for all growth, including the farm, and I have spent these last few months quietly sifting through memories and feelings of such a huge force in my life leaving this earthly plain
But my grief is punctuated by the hints of spring and rebirth is now on my mind
Along with the birds of spring come the buds, because, well, change is inevitable, and therefore, so is growth
So, at the threshold between seasons I have found a sure-footed path forward into the next phases of life:
Firstly, the website has been rebuilt and the shop for the 2023 Spring CSA will be up shortly. So for the time being, please pop over and check it out. And if you haven’t signed up for our newsletter, you may do so there and then
Secondly, this year we will only be at farmers market and offering a CSA for Spring only. HOWEVER - this will enable us to dedicate the summer season to organizing the farm to make it more efficient to our growing needs and return with what we hope to be a blockbuster growing season in 2024
You all have been just great and incredibly supportive of all of our efforts to bring you the best locally grown blooms and we thank you and deeply appreciate your attention and consideration for the beauty in flowers
Stay tuned for info about our upcoming CSA sale and when we’ll be at the market in April and May!!
🌷❤️💐🧡🌻💛🌼💚🪷💙🌺💜🌸
10/29/2022
Fall is falling!! It’s about that time when everything is about done for the season.
4300 of 6000 tulips in the trenches for the spring so far - so get ready for a full range of sock-knocking spring bloom insanity come 2023!!
07/30/2022
We’ve got a rainbow selection of flowers today we’re bringing to the - like these celosia - come see us!! 8-1
07/19/2022
So sweet to be back in the fields!! Collecting these lovely statice and snaps and salvia for shop bouquets available at and also now at Wednesdays!!
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