Beetles, Bones & Bouquets

10/31/2026

🌸 LAST LAST LAST CALL… for real this time! 😂

We know—we already said “last call,” then “last LAST call.” Turns out the flowers had other plans, and our schedule helped them out a little!

We only got half the dahlias cut back, so the rest gave us another round of blooms! 💐

Thank you to everyone who came out to support us at the New Albany Farmers Market today! We sold most of our flowers and appreciate you helping us stretch flower season just a little longer. ❤️

We might have a few $5 bloom jars next week, but that should REALLY be it… probably. 👀😂

10/28/2026

🌱 100 Sandbags, 1 Cubic Yard of Sand, and a Whole Lot of Winter Prep! 💪🏻

We’ve been busy preparing the farm for the colder months! We recently picked up one cubic yard of sand in our truck and filled 100 sandbags with approximately 20 pounds each! Believe it or not, that was almost exactly the amount of sand we needed!

These sandbags will be used for many growing seasons to weigh down the plastic covering our four low tunnels, helping protect thousands of flowers and plants from winter weather. 🌷❄️

In previous years, we used a combination of cinderblocks, bricks, and stones to hold down our plastic. While they got the job done, their rough edges were causing unnecessary wear and tearing. We decided it was time to invest in a better, longer-lasting solution!

Sustainability isn’t always about eliminating materials. Sometimes it’s about making what you already use last longer. 🌎♻️

Plastic is an unfortunate reality of everyday life, whether you’re farming, gardening, working in construction, or just going about your day. While we’d love to eliminate it entirely, that’s not always practical. Instead, we do our best to reduce, reuse, and recycle wherever possible.

Our hope is that these sandbags will last for many years, while also helping us extend the life of our greenhouse plastic for several growing seasons with proper care. Less waste, fewer replacements, and hopefully fewer headaches!

Is 2,000 pounds of sandbags more weight than we actually need? Probably! 😂 But we’d rather be overprepared than watch our low tunnels take flight during a winter windstorm!

🎥 Tune in for a quick, one-minute video where I explain what we’re working on, why we made the switch, and how we’re preparing our growing spaces for winter!

There’s always something happening behind the scenes at Beetles, Bones & Bouquets, even when the flowers aren’t blooming! 🌸🌱

10/27/2026

🌱 Check out our friend at The Little Farm in the Forest, going live on YouTube in about an hour!

Join us for some gardening conversations, nature talk, and a chance to ask questions and learn from fellow growers! 🌻🐝

We’ll be hanging out in the chat, too! Check out the original post for details and come say hello! 💚

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Don’t forget I’m live streaming on YouTube tonight where you can ask your local small farmer questions and just sit and chat. I try to keep these short about 20/30 minutes or so!

Beetles, Bones & Bouquets will be in on the chat as well and they’re full of knowledge!

10/27/2026

🌸 SOLD OUT AT TOASTY’S! 🌸🎉

What a fun time we had at Toasty’s in Louisville! 💐

The atmosphere was fantastic, the food was absolutely delicious, and we were so happy to be part of the celebration!

We had a blast making custom bouquets for everyone, helping people pick out their favorite blooms, and even making a few fun trades with other folks along the way! 🌼🤝

And the best part? We SOLD OUT of flowers! 🥳

As our dahlia season comes to an end, it was especially rewarding to see the last of our beautiful blooms finding new homes and bringing smiles to people’s faces.

A huge thank-you to Toasty’s for having us and to everyone who stopped by, supported our little farm, shared a conversation, or took home some locally grown flowers. 💚

The flowers might be winding down for the season, but there’s still plenty happening behind the scenes at Beetles, Bones, & Bouquets! 🌱

😭🌸 Yesterday, we officially started the bittersweet process of cutting back our dahlias in preparation for digging up the tubers next week!

As much as we’d love to keep enjoying these beautiful blooms, we’ve got a schedule to stick to! 🌱

We still have two more florist orders to fulfill this week, and then our 2026 dahlia season will officially come to an end. 💐

But don’t worry, this isn’t goodbye forever! We’ll be spending the coming weeks digging, dividing, and storing our tubers in preparation for another incredible growing season.

🌸 Keep an eye out for our spring 2027 dahlia tuber sales! You’ll have the opportunity to grow some of the same ~80 beautiful varieties you’ve seen in our bouquets this year!

Thank you to everyone who helped make this flower season so special! 💚

10/26/2026

🌱 FRESH FROM OUR FARM TO YOUR TABLE! 🍠🫑🥚

Come see us TODAY at the Let Us Learn, Inc. Pay-As-You-Can Farmstand in New Albany!

Beetles, Bones, & Bouquets is excited to contribute some of our farm-fresh harvest to this wonderful community event! 💚

🌿 We’re providing:

* 🫑 Fresh sweet bell peppers
* 🥚 Farm-fresh eggs
* 🥬 Beautiful bunches of Chinese Pink Celery
* 🍠 Pumpkin Yam Sweet Potatoes; freshly harvested from our farm!

📍 Crossroads Community Church
2248 Charlestown Rd, New Albany, IN

🕑 Farmstand: 2–4 PM
🧑🏾‍🍳Chef Demo: 4:15–5:30 PM

💚 Pay what you can, even if that’s nothing at all! No questions asked, and everyone is welcome.

We love seeing locally grown food make its way into the hands of our community. Supporting food accessibility, reducing food waste, and connecting people with fresh, nutritious produce are all things we believe in!

Come out, grab some fresh food, and support this wonderful initiative! 🌎🌱

10/25/2026

🌸💐 THE LAST, LAST CALL FOR FLOWERS! 😭🍂

We know, we know… we already said last call. BUT WE REALLY MEAN IT THIS TIME! 😂

If you missed us yesterday, you’ve got ONE FINAL CHANCE to grab some of our locally grown flowers before we officially say goodbye to the 2026 flower season!

🎉 We’re celebrating Toasty’s Birthday Patio Party in Louisville TODAY!

📍 Toasty's Tavern— Louisville, KY

🕑 2 PM – 8 PM

We’ll have a limited selection of premade bouquets and bloom jars, featuring some of the very last dahlias, zinnias, and other seasonal blooms from our farm! 🌼🌿

💐 FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED! Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

And when we say this is the LAST last call, we mean it! Whatever flowers remain in the field before we cut our plants back for the season will be heading straight to one of our local florists. 💐

BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THE PARTY STOPS! 🌱🥳

While our flower season is coming to an end, there’s still an incredible amount of work happening behind the scenes at Beetles, Bones, & Bouquets!

We’ve got THOUSANDS of bulbs, corms, and tubers to dig, divide, and plant, garden beds to prepare, plants to tuck in for winter, and plenty of exciting things already growing for next spring! 🌷🌼

The flowers may be taking their final bow, but we’re just getting started on the next chapter!

Come celebrate with us at Toasty’s, support some amazing local vendors, and help us send off our 2026 flower season in style! ❤️

🌱 GROWN, NOT FLOWN!
🐝 KNOW YOUR GROWER!

10/24/2026

🌸💐 LAST CALL FOR FLOWERS! 😢🍂

The end of flower season is finally here, and we’re going out with a BANG! 🌼

TODAY is your chance to grab some of our LAST locally grown bouquets of 2026!

We’ve been busy putting together beautiful arrangements featuring dahlias, zinnias, strawflowers, and other seasonal blooms. Once they’re gone, they’re gone until next growing season! 😭

💐 Bouquets available for $5, $20 & $25!

📍 New Albany Farmers Market
📍 Corydon Extravaganza

🌿 At the Corydon Extravaganza, 8-5, we’ll also have a small selection of native plants ($5–$10) and specialty herbs ($3–$5)!

❤️ FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED! Quantities are limited, and we won’t be making any more bouquets this season!

It’s bittersweet saying goodbye to our flowers after such an incredible growing season. Thank you to everyone who has supported our little farm this year! 🥹

Come help us send off the 2026 flower season in style! 🐝🌻

GROWN, NOT FLOWN! 💚

10/23/2026

🌸 TWO EVENTS, ONE FLOWER-FILLED SATURDAY! 🌸

Beetles, Bones, & Bouquets is getting ready for a busy Saturday! 🌿💐

We’ll be at the Corydon Extravaganza 8-5 and the New Albany Farmers Market tomorrow, 10-12 October 24!

We’ve been busy harvesting our beautiful, locally grown dahlias, zinnias, strawflowers, and other seasonal blooms to create fresh bouquets just for you! 🌼

💐 Fresh Flower Bouquets
🌸 $5 mini bouquets
🌻 $20 & $25 bouquets

🌱 At the Corydon Extravaganza, we’ll also have a small selection of our locally grown native plants ranging from $5–$10, along with a few specialty culinary and aromatic herbs priced from $3–$5!

Whether you’re looking for a beautiful bouquet, something to add to your garden, or a unique herb to grow at home, we’ve got a little something for everyone!

We’re making the most of these final weeks of fall flowers before the frost brings our growing season to an end. 🍂

Come support local growers, shop small, and take home a little piece of our farm! ❤️

🌿 Everything we sell, we grow ourselves!
💐 Grown, not flown!
🐝 Know your grower!

10/22/2026

🍠📊 Sweet Potato Harvest

Farm Science Edition!

We dug a few of our Pumpkin Yam sweet potatoes early, but when the full harvest starts later this month, we’re getting a little nerdy with it. 🤓🌱

We grew five different sweet potato varieties this year, and instead of just tossing everything into one big pile, each individual plant will be harvested and measured separately.

For every plant, we’ll be recording things like:

⚖️ Total weight harvested per plant
📏 Average sweet potato length
🍠 Number and size of roots produced
📊 Average yield for each variety

That means by the end of harvest, we should have a pretty good idea which of our five varieties was actually the most productive in our soil and growing conditions; not just which one gave us the biggest sweet potato!

Most of the foliage is already dying back and the soil is getting colder, so harvest time is getting close. Then comes curing…and eventually the best part: the taste test. 😋🍠

We’ll share the results once all the numbers are in!

10/18/2026

🌸 THE DAHLIAS MAY HAVE LIVED TO SEE ANOTHER WEEK! 🌸❄️

We had quite the scare overnight! Temperatures dipped lower than forecast, and we woke up to frost covering much of the grass around the farm.

Naturally, our biggest concern was our nearly 300 dahlia plants, which are still producing beautiful flowers for our local florists and markets!

After walking through the gardens this morning, we’re feeling VERY optimistic! 🌸

We found some light, crystalline frost on a few older, spent blooms that were already past their prime and no longer suitable for cutting. However, approximately 99% of the foliage showed no visible evidence of frost, and most importantly, our developing buds and fresh flowers appeared unaffected!

Based on what we’re seeing, we’re feeling about 90% confident that we’ll have dahlias for at least one more week! 🤞 Of course, Mother Nature still has the final say, and we’ll know more once the plants have had time to show any delayed frost damage.

If everything continues looking this good, we’re planning to enjoy one final week of flowers before cutting the plants back in preparation for digging our dahlia tubers toward the end of October.

And the timing couldn’t be better, because that’s also when we’ll be harvesting our five varieties of sweet potatoes! 🍠

Technically, sweet potatoes are tuberous storage roots, rather than true tubers like regular potatoes. Dahlias also produce tuberous roots, so either way, we’ll be digging up a LOT of underground treasures before November arrives!

We’ll definitely post an update once we know how our dahlias handled this little brush with frost. But for now, the evidence is encouraging, and we’re hopeful they’ll give us one more beautiful week of blooms!

🌸 Fingers crossed that our dahlias aren’t quite ready to call it a season!

— Beetles, Bones & Bouquets 🌿