Two Boots Farm

4226 Maple Grove Rd. Hampstead USA

(443) 507-8428

A family run farm and floral design studio in Hampstead, Maryland. We grow a wide variety of cut flowers and produce. We also have over 100 cultivated pawpaw fruit trees. We use ecologically sustainable practices so that future generations can continue to grow in healthy soil.

In with summer

June 23, 2022  /  Elisa Lane

Greetings, farm friends!

Though the weather’s been quite cool this week, the summer solstice crept in on us on Tuesday, and the flowers in the field are beginning to reflect the summer season. We’re enjoying the cool temperatures while they last. Farm work is always easier when it’s not too hot outside, so we appreciate this weather when we can get it!

This week we welcomed cosmos, sunflowers, rudbeckia, and the very earliest dahlias into our harvests. It’s great fun to have new blooms to design with, and we’re looking forward to the seasonal shift. We’re looking adding celosia, tweedia, and didiscus to our harvest list in the next couple of weeks! The fields are constantly transforming, with new things coming into bloom each week. In addition to all of the new flowers we’re harvesting, we’ve finally got cucumbers to bring to market!

Colorful harvests

In the coming weeks, I’d like to take the time to introduce our newsletter readers to our farm crew. Our crew works incredibly hard to bring you beautiful blooms and produce each week, and I think they all deserve some time in the spotlight!

This week’s featured crew member is Jenna. Jenna came to Two Boots last year, after working on other vegetable farms and at the SPCA. Here on the farm, they manage our irrigation system, fertigation, and pest control. We always appreciate their inquisitive nature and attention to detail. Jenna is creative, thoughtful, and an extremely hard worker.

Jenna loves animals, hakurei turnips, and larkspur, and they know a whole lot about plants and gardening! They’re great at picking up new tools and always learn quickly. We feel incredibly lucky to have Jenna working on the farm, and we’re looking forward to the rest of the season!

Jenna, a white nonbinary person wearing round glasses, a grey shirt, and olive green pants, is standing in front of a light blue barn holding a massive armload of lavender campanula.

Jenna, holding a glorious campanula harvest a few weeks back.

This week’s large farmer’s market bouquets.

We’re back at the JFX market on Sunday from 7:00-12:00.

As the summer season sets in, we always notice a big dip in market sales. The summer lull hits every farmers market hard- customers go out of town for vacation, switch up their routines, and stop frequenting the market. For farmers, this is the most grueling time of the year. Our harvests are huge, the days are long and hard, and the market shrinks considerably. While you’re in town this summer, don’t forget to support your local farmers! We’re at home, working hard to provide our customers with the highest quality food and flowers possible.

This week’s market stand will feature bouquets, foxglove bunches, feverfew bunches, foliage bunches, larkspur bunches, monarda bunches, rudbeckia bunches, snapdragon bunches, yarrow bunches, edible flowers, cucumbers, and spring mix.

Wishing you well,

Amelia and the rest of the Two Boots crew

A handful of small market bouquets against a blue barn. The bouquets contain yellow rudbeckia, sunflowers, pink rattail statice, yarrow, cosmos, german statice, ninebark, larkspur, and baptisia foliage.

This week’s small market bouquets; featuring a bright array of blooms.

Jenna, harvesting their current favorite crop- larkspur!

A grey cat named Grey drinks from a small pond, surrounded by rocks and foliage-heavy landscaping.

Grey, drinking from the pond

Sahara rudbeckia

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