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Little Sweet Flower Farm

We are a family-owned flower farm and Wisconsin native plant nursery in Larsen, WI, rooted in land stewardship and guided by nature.

Our mission is to restore balance between people, plants, and pollinators, one garden at a time.🌿🌎🐝🐛🩷🐦🦋🌎🌿

09/05/2026

Looking to prep a new garden?

We’re currently preparing portions of our new land for future native plantings and display gardens. We’ll be adding a lot of plant material here in the future, so we’re working in sections and taking it bit by bit.

We started by mowing the existing grass as short as we could, then covered the area with black tarps and bricks. You could also use logs, sandbags or anything else that will keep the edges from lifting. This is called occultation. The black tarps block the sunlight, stop photosynthesis, and weaken the grass and w**ds underneath until they die back and decompose. We also use this method in our flower field when preparing rows for planting. It’s important to give the process enough time to work. If the covering is removed too soon, the grass and w**ds may not be weakened enough and can start growing again.

Occultation can also be done with heavy cardboard, old carpet or carpet squares. I’m not a fan of plastic, but we’re reusing what we already have on hand. As a no-till farm, we’re able to prepare this ground without turning over the soil or using herbicides. Tilling can disturb soil structure, disrupt soil life and bring buried w**d seeds to the surface. Herbicides can affect non-target plants, move through drift or runoff, and some can persist in the soil after application. This ground will eventually be home to native plants and pollinators, so we want to give it a good start. Protecting the soil and the organisms living in it is part of that.

There’s another method we could have used here called solarization. Instead of blocking sunlight, solarization uses clear plastic to trap the sun’s heat and warm the soil. The area is watered, covered tightly with clear plastic, and left in place for several weeks. The heat helps kill existing vegetation and w**d seeds. If you’re preparing an area for a pollinator garden, it’s another option to consider.

We’ll let the sun, weather and time do their work, and keep working our way across the property, one section at a time.
🌿 Little Sweet Flower Farm 🌿

09/02/2026

Happy September! 🍂

And just like that, our summer CSA season is wrapping up.

Last week we finished our 4-week subscriptions, and this week we’re sending out the final bouquets for our 8-week subscriptions.

I always enjoy watching the flowers change throughout the season and putting together a new mix for our CSA members each week.

Now onto our 4-week fall subscription. If you’d like to join us for the final weeks of the season, take a look at our link in the messages or reach out to me. I’d be happy to help you get signed up.

If you’re new to Little Sweet Flower Farm, our flowers are grown right here on our farm without synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides. We are completely chemical free so you can feel good about bringing them into your home.

Here is a little peek at some of our CSA bouquets from the past couple of weeks. 🩷

08/27/2026

This Saturday is our last Oshkosh Farmers Markets of the season!

We’ll have native plants only this week, no bouquets. We’re also filling lots of orders for fall planting. If you’d like to put together a plant list for pickup, just reach out and I’m happy to pull your order.

People ask all the time if it’s too late to plant. My honest answer is that fall is my favorite time to plant and for several reasons...
• The soil is still warm, which helps roots get established.
• Cooler temperatures mean less stress on newly planted plants.
• When we actually get rain... I can rely on plants getting watered in.
• Perennials can spend their energy putting down roots before winter.
• Come spring, they’re already settled in and ready to grow.
There’s still plenty of time to get those plants in the ground!

Oshkosh, you’ve been good to us this season. Thanks for making Saturdays something we always look forward to.

Hope to see you Saturday at the market!
🩷Little Sweet Flower Farm

08/18/2026

One of my favorite parts of the day is opening the coop and watching this little crew come running.

The duckling phase went by in the blink of an eye. These little guys are now huge, and the plan has been to train them to follow me out into the flower field, forage through the rows, and help keep the slug population in check.

We’re working on it. Slowly. They are nervous nellies, and every new stretch of field takes a little convincing.

Our rooster seems to be the flock’s designated lookout. Every so often, he stops, c***s his head, and lets out a low-pitched call. I don’t know what he’s saying, but apparently everyone else does. The hens and ducks immediately high-tail it back to the coop while he stays in the field, standing proud.

We’ll get there eventually. For now, I’m pretty smitten with this daily duck parade at Little Sweet Flower Farm.

08/17/2026

A little update from Little Sweet Flower Farm, because it’s been awhile. 🩷

This summer has been full of to-do lists and long days. One of our biggest projects has been getting our new high tunnel up. We received a grant to help fund it, and to save on costs, we’ve been installing it ourselves. Mark has done a tremendous job, and my boys and I have helped whenever we can. Once we check this huge project off our list, we’ll begin building at our new land. Our next chapter is on the horizon!

The rest of the farm has kept me plenty busy. I’ve spent a lot of my time trying to keep up with the w**ds. As soon as I get one area under control, another seems to disappear into the jungle.

Somewhere between the w**ds, the high tunnel, and all the other things on our list, summer has quietly started turning towards fall. It’s hard to believe, but we’re already nearing the end of our 4-week and 8-week summer CSA subscriptions. Next, we’ll be getting ready for our fall CSA soon. I’ll share more about that later in the week.

We’re also nearing the end of our market season. Unfortunately, we won’t be at the Oshkosh Farmers Market this Saturday, but we’ll be back on the 29th for our final market of 2026.

We’ve sold out of a lot of our plants, but we still have a pretty good selection available. Mark and I are working on an updated list of what we have left, and we’ll share that soon.

Going to market every Saturday is one of my favorite parts of this job. We have met so many great, down-to-earth people there. It’s refreshing to spend time around people who care about the same things we do. I’m so thankful for the connections we’ve made.

There’s definitely a void when the season ends. But there’s also something exciting about turning the page. Fall is coming, the new land is waiting, and we still have one more market to enjoy. 🩷

08/13/2026

You may have noticed your native garden starting to change. Some of the early bloomers have finished flowering. The bright colors are fading, seed heads are forming, and parts of the garden are beginning to brown and look past their prime. This is usually when the urge to “clean things up” starts to creep in. But before you cut everything back, take a closer look. Those plants are still working.

Leaving native plants standing through fall and winter provides:

🌱 Food: Seed heads provide food for goldfinches, sparrows, juncos and other birds when other food becomes harder to find.

🐛 Insect habitat: Native stems, leaves and leaf litter provide places for insects to overwinter, lay eggs and complete their life cycles. Those insects become the next generation of pollinators and other beneficial insects, while also providing food for birds and other wildlife.

❄️ Winter shelter: Standing stems and dried vegetation provide cover for insects and small wildlife through the colder months.

💧 Soil protection: Plant material left in place helps hold moisture, slow wind and water, and protect soil from erosion.

My wild bergamot is no longer blooming, but it’s far from finished. Goldfinches have been busy picking their way through the stems and feeding from the seed heads.

If you’re someone who normally cuts your garden down before winter, I challenge you to leave it standing this year. Leave the stems. Leave the seed heads. Leave the leaf litter. Watch who comes to use it. Sometimes the best thing we can do for a garden is simply get out of its way.

Let Mother Nature do her thing.
-Little Sweet Flower Farm

08/11/2026

Flower crab spiders don’t spin webs to catch their meals. Instead, they sit quietly on flowers and wait for pollinators to come within reach. They’re masters of camouflage, sometimes blending right into the flower they’re hunting from.

Around here, we leave them be and let nature do its thing...even if they’re eating the very pollinators we work so hard to attract.
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Little Sweet Flower Farm

08/10/2026

A little look at our CSA bouquets lately.

8-week, 4-week, and monthly subscriptions, all grown, gathered, and wrapped up right here at Little Sweet Flower Farm.

So thankful for everyone who has made our CSA part of their summer.
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08/04/2026

CSA flower delivery days are pretty sweet already, but coming home with two dozen beautiful farm-fresh eggs from a CSA subscriber made my day. 🥹

I’m so grateful for the little exchanges that happen through this farm, and even more grateful for the genuinely kind people I get to meet along the way. 🩷

08/03/2026

An empty van and no kids with me...dangerous combination. 😂

I had way too much fun shopping for rusty garden treasures and plants at Woodland Gardens and Gifts outside of Eden (I even went back today to get more). Their perennials are half off right now, and the plants are gorgeous. Go check them out!

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