Local Stems Flower Farm

This is the final photo I took in the garden last year. Maybe not the prettiest, but it feels fitting for the close of 2025 and start of a new year. Each faded flower is filled with seeds that hold the potential for new life and transformation 🌱 I wish everyone a 2026 filled with that kind of hope and growth, as well as more time spent with family, friends, and flowers too 🌸 Happy New Year!

That’s a wrap on makers markets this holiday season! What an incredible four weeks of shows it was! THANK YOU to everyone who chose to shop small, local, and handmade this year, especially if you stopped by my booth at a Creatively Lancaster or Forty Elephants show 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 I hope you felt like a customer, not a consumer because I value our interactions so much! Every single purchase or kind word made my day. Regardless of how many sales I received, I felt like a million bucks after every market thanks to wonderful shoppers, friendly vendors, and supportive family. You know who you are! From the bottom of my heart, thank you 🩷

I am so grateful for all the wonderful and kind customers I’ve met over the last few weeks and very excited to finish the holiday season strong with TWO markets this weekend! Saturday at the Creatively Lancaster Holiday Makers Market or Sunday at the Forty Elephants Vintage & Handmade Market “Gen X-Mas Edition” (details for both below or in last pictures of this post) will be the final chances to pick out a gift or stocking stuffer from my flower-filled booth. I’ve been busy this week restocking ornaments, bookmarks, decorative candles, and more, so there’s still so many different flower varieties and designs to choose from! As always, my items are homegrown naturally and handmade thoughtfully right here in East York, PA. I hope you’ll stop by this weekend to say hi, chat flowers, and maybe take home a floral treasure for you or someone you love 😊

SATURDAY
🩷 Holiday Makers Market
🩷 Dec 13th, 10am-4pm
🩷 At Greenfield Lancaster (1740 Hempstead Rd, Lancaster, PA)

SUNDAY
❤️ Vintage and Handmade Market “Gen X-Mas Edition”
❤️ Dec 14th, 10am-4pm
❤️ At DoubleTree Resort Lancaster (2400 Willow Street Pike, Lancaster, PA)

Can you guess what these fun flowers are??

They’re actually azaleas, like the popular flowering bush 🌸 I pressed a few this spring as a trial and was pretty pleased with how they came out!

Aren’t Forget-Me-Nots just the sweetest? 🩵 Whether you’re drawn to them for their unique blue color, dainty petite blooms, or deep meaning of love and remembrance, they seem to be a favorite by so many! This includes the bumblebees in the garden, so they’ll always be a must-grow for me 🐝

Cosmos 🩷💛🧡 Easy to grow but tedious to press (I have to trim down the puffy center of each flower to keep them nice and flat), these colorful cosmos are totally worth it! I love this year’s colors, especially the orange! Which color do you want on your Christmas tree?

The next opportunities to shop my flower-filled pieces are at Creatively Lancaster’s Holiday Makers Markets on Dec 6th and 13th. Both markets are 10am-4pm at Greenfield Lancaster (1740 Hempstead Rd, Lancaster, PA). Hope to see you there!

Dara 😍 These beautiful blooms are some of my very favorites, fresh or pressed! Inside the ornaments, they transform into special floral snowflakes for your Christmas tree 🎄❄️ and just like snowflakes, each one is unique! Do you prefer clear or black background??

These and other pressed flower ornaments will be available next at the Creatively Lancaster Holiday Makers Market on December 6th, 10am-4pm at Greenfield Lancaster.