Flower School
Learn with us.
We love teaching and connecting over flowers. We welcome all levels, from beginners to experienced designers and gardeners. We learn from every person who comes to our classes - we love to see what you see, and help you develop your own unique style. There is always new inspiration to be found in our farm setting and through connection person-to-person.
Salt Spring is an incredible destination for florals - for a little island, we have a lot of talented growers and designers. We love to collaborate, and invite you to experience the rich, blooming world of Salt Spring Island - the farm side.
Opening the barn doors to students Spring 2025.
We’re going big on flower play next year - from hands-on learning in our barn studio, wandering our gardens searching for the perfect stem, to visiting some of Salt Spring’s most magical farms and gardens - we can’t wait to see the 2025 season unfold.
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Field + Studio Workshops
Learn in a small group setting in our field and barn studio. Many of our workshops involve harvesting your own flowers before creating an arrangement - we want to help you learn to see material everywhere, both grown and wild. Working with flowers is an evolving, creative process - we’d love to explore with you.
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Flower Club
So into it? Make it official and join our Flower Club. We’re putting together a program that will touch on each aspect of a flower farming season, from the garden to events. Flower Club members can expect to gain skills and confidence with flowers over the course of the season - and have a lot of fun with our team, too.
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Private Workshops
Want to nerd about a specific concept or technique? Or share a creative experience with family, friends, or colleagues? We’re opening up our calendar for private bookings spring through fall; we’d love to host you.
We didn’t always know that our work would be flowers, but we did know it would involve school and creative learning. From our very first farm apprenticeship, we knew that everything we learned, every skill, hard lesson, and artful technique, would be applied in a school setting one day. The past decade has been a colourful, challenging, and deeply rewarding collection of experiences growing and designing with flowers, helping us shape the learning experience we are now sharing with you.
When we work with flowers, we’re exploring the intersection between art and nature, and finding our own place in the process.
Our goal with Flower School is to create space for exploring that intersection, trusting our intuition and creativity. We hope you leave our workshops engaging with your environments in new ways. There is no “right” way to work with flowers, but we’ll share our tools, tips, and techniques for a good foundation so you can take off from there - we can’t wait to see what you create.
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Approach
We’re committed to individual learning
People come to the farm with unique relationships to flowers - we welcome all, from absolute beginners to experienced designers. We adapt our teaching style to the level of each student, sharing practical techniques as well as encouraging experimentation and curiosity for creators of every level.
We focus on materials
We explore form, colour and texture in the garden and how they contribute to unique arrangements in the vase. We’ll help you see potential everywhere, from weedy seed heads to hanging fruit. Every student has the opportunity to harvest and forage, following your own eye and developing your confidence to try new things.
We’re excited about process and play
While the end result is wonderful, we’re more interested in how we get there. We make space for a sense of wonder, and encourage you to listen to your intuition as you place every stem. It’s this focus and stillness, connecting with nature, that makes working with flowers so magnetic.
Programs
We offer a variety of programming for a full range of experience levels.
Workshops: half day, full day and multi-day workshops that focus on a particular theme or skill
Flower Club: for the local flower lover who wants to regularly explore and create with flowers in a social environment
Private Workshops: work on a specific skill, or simply enjoy an creative afternoon with family, friends or colleagues
