About a week and a half ago my daughter-in-law, Jessica, asked me to help her with some floral arranging she was going to be needing to do in the near future. She needed to make some centerpieces for an event she was helping out with. She wanted them to be kind of farm-to-table and had discovered an organic farm right down the street from her house that had a cut-your-own flower garden. It was so much fun and I liked the idea of a farm-to-table event. I began to think of the kind of arrangements you could make for something like that. Since I am always desiring to practice the art of floral arranging, I began to wonder if there is a farm around me that offered pick-your-own flowers. I was hoping to experiment!
I soon remembered that I do! It is Parlee Farms in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, only two towns away from me. So, on a day I just needed to do something fun I made my way over to the farm. The staff was very helpful and the fields were full of zinnias, dahlias and sunflowers. There were lots of hummingbirds...and bees...all over the flowers. If you look hard at this photo you will see one of the hummingbirds.
