As we enter August and start to sense the close of summer, we’re thinking about back to school! Here’s a preview of our autumn floral design workshop series. There’s a dozen and more to be added too! Try your hand at a number of fun floral projects at our beautiful flower farm located right in the heart of Philadelphia. Registration for each workshop opens up 30 days before the class date. Will we see you there?
DIY WEDDING BOOT CAMP
Date: Saturday, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm | Philadelphia PA
Are you getting married and considering doing your own wedding flowers? Perhaps you’re the a lucky mom or best friend who has been put in charge of doing the flowers for an upcoming wedding. DIY wedding flowers are fun, but also usually more complicated and stressful than anticipated. Come to this workshop to make sure you’re totally prepared for “show time”! Jennie, owner and lead designer of Love ‘n Fresh, leads this intensive three hour workshop, demonstrating all the basic techniques you’ll need to know to create your various wedding floral pieces, including boutonnieres, hair flowers, bridesmaid bouquets, and centerpieces. Pointers for sourcing flowers, choosing the right seasonal blooms, storing and transporting the flowers, and a detailed task timeline for getting it all done are discussed. The first two hours of the workshop will be spent in a classroom setting with Jennie demonstrating techniques and presenting invaluable information. The last hour will be “play time” for attendees to practice what they’ve learned using our farm’s just-picked flowers. Students will receive gentle and constructive feedback from Jennie so they can feel confident moving forward with DIY-ing on the Big Day.
Please note: This workshop is geared towards beginners who are simply seeking to design flowers for a single event/wedding. This workshop is not appropriate for students who may be interested in pursuing wedding floral designs professionally. Please sign up for our Floral Cohort if you’re hoping to receive training on being a professional event florist.
This workshop is also not appropriate for budding farmer-florists. There will be no farm tour or discussion of flower farming.
Registration open now.
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THE ART OF HAND-TIED BOUQUETS
Date: Thursday, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Time: 2:00PM – 4:30PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm | Philadelphia PA
There’s magic in making a bouquet in your hand and then, with sweeping flare, putting it in a vase for a perfect arrangement! Come learn the art of crafting a European-style hand-tied bouquet with the bounty from our farm. This technique is timeless and one that we use at Love ‘n Fresh to create our gorgeous, textural, relaxed bridal bouquets. We also use this technique to make many of our wedding centerpieces. But you don’t have to have a wedding on your calendar to enjoy mastering hand-tied bouquets. This technique is also very “handy” to know if you’re making a bouquet to take to a friend in the hospital or to take a oh-ah-worthy hostess gift to the next party. After walking the farm to gather some select special blooms, Jennie will lead students through a detailed demonstration. Students will then craft their own bouquets and can choose to finish them with wide satin ribbons and tissue wrap or place them in cylinder vase for an easy-breezy arrangement to take home.
Registration opens on August 22nd.
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DAHLIA HAPPY HOUR
Date: Friday, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Time: 5:30 PM – 7 PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm| Philadelphia PA
Registration opens on August 23rd.
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AUTUMN ABUNDANCE
Date: Saturday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
Time: 10AM-12:30AM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm| Philadelphia PA
Dive head first into a flower farm in all its early autumn glory! In this workshop, you’ll have plenty of time to play with our dahlias, cosmos, lisianthus, grasses, rusty-hued foliages, herbs, and much more! Take lots of photos in the soft golden light. Learn how to incorporate seasonal fruits and pods into your designs. A beautiful large earthen bowl will be provided for each student to use and is yours to keep. Walk long rows of blooms at the farm and harvest as your heart desires. Learn how to craft a loose, lush, “earthy elegant” arrangement that is the signature look at Love ‘n Fresh Flowers. Take home a paper-wrapped bundle of extra blooms to practice some more!
Registration opens on August 24th.
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FRESH FLORAL JEWELRY
Date: Saturday, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
Time: 2:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm | Philadelphia PA
Celebrate autumns jewel tones by learning to make beautiful, ethereal wearable fresh floral art, including flower cuffs, fresh floral “tattoos”, flower “fascinators”, flower necklaces, flower earrings and other funky delights. Dahlias, strawflowers, gomphrena, berries, yarrow and more typically abound this time of year, making this class extra creative.
Students can then choose to make two wearable projects for themselves during the class and then will go home with extra flowers and supplies to practice and make more pieces at home.
Registration open August 24th.
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AUTUMN ABUNDANCE
Date: Thursday, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Time: 2:00PM – 4:30PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm| Philadelphia PA
Dive head first into a flower farm in all its early autumn glory! In this workshop, you’ll have plenty of time to play with our dahlias, cosmos, lisianthus, grasses, rusty-hued foliages, herbs, and much more! Take lots of photos in the soft golden light. Learn how to incorporate seasonal fruits and pods into your designs. A beautiful large earthen bowl will be provided for each student to use and is yours to keep. Walk long rows of blooms at the farm and harvest as your heart desires. Learn how to craft a loose, lush, “earthy elegant” arrangement that is the signature look at Love ‘n Fresh Flowers. Take home a paper-wrapped bundle of extra blooms to practice some more!
Registration opens on August 29th.
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THE ART OF HAND-TIED BOUQUETS
Date: Saturday, OCTOBER 1, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm | Philadelphia PA
There’s magic in making a bouquet in your hand and then, with sweeping flare, putting it in a vase for a perfect arrangement! Come learn the art of crafting a European-style hand-tied bouquet with the bounty from our farm. This technique is timeless and one that we use at Love ‘n Fresh to create our gorgeous, textural, relaxed bridal bouquets. We also use this technique to make many of our wedding centerpieces. But you don’t have to have a wedding on your calendar to enjoy mastering hand-tied bouquets. This technique is also very “handy” to know if you’re making a bouquet to take to a friend in the hospital or to take a oh-ah-worthy hostess gift to the next party. After walking the farm to gather some select special blooms, Jennie will lead students through a detailed demonstration. Students will then craft their own bouquets and can choose to finish them with wide satin ribbons and tissue wrap or place them in cylinder vase for an easy-breezy arrangement to take home.
Registration opens on September 1st.
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MAKING A STATEMENT WITH LARGE URN ARRANGEMENTS
Date: Saturday, OCTOBER 1, 2022
Time: 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm | Philadelphia PA
Learn to make a 3 foot tall focal arrangement in a gold urn, using the farm’s large autumn branches and dinnerplate dahlias. This is a great class for those students who have attended several other classes at our farm and are looking to up their game. Also a great class for flora professionals that would like to learn how to make larger pieces without foam and just generally get inspired by seasonal branches and blooms from our farm. This class does not include a farm tour.
Registration opens on September 1st.
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THE ART OF HAND-TIED BOUQUETS
Date: Wednesday, OCTOBER 5, 2022
Time: 2:30PM – 5:00PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm | Philadelphia PA
There’s magic in making a bouquet in your hand and then, with sweeping flare, putting it in a vase for a perfect arrangement! Come learn the art of crafting a European-style hand-tied bouquet with the bounty from our farm. This technique is timeless and one that we use at Love ‘n Fresh to create our gorgeous, textural, relaxed bridal bouquets. We also use this technique to make many of our wedding centerpieces. But you don’t have to have a wedding on your calendar to enjoy mastering hand-tied bouquets. This technique is also very “handy” to know if you’re making a bouquet to take to a friend in the hospital or to take a oh-ah-worthy hostess gift to the next party. After walking the farm to gather some select special blooms, Jennie will lead students through a detailed demonstration. Students will then craft their own bouquets and can choose to finish them with wide satin ribbons and tissue wrap or place them in cylinder vase for an easy-breezy arrangement to take home.
Registration opens on September 5th.
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FOLIAGE FIRST
Date: Saturday, OCTOBER 15, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm | Philadelphia PA
Flowers usually take center stage when it comes to centerpieces. But around Love ‘n Fresh Flowers, we covet and grow heaps of really interesting foliage that make our bouquets stand out. During this autumn afternoon class, we’ll explore the idea of creating a centerpiece focused on foliage first, with perhaps just a few accent blooms. Ninebark, smokebush, snowberry, spirea, viburnum, mountain mint, eucalyptus, dusty miller, fennel fronds, ferns, heuchera, and so much more will be at students’ disposal. We’ll start class as we always do, with a walk around the farm, but this time with a focus on the plants that produce the best cut foliage for our work. Then we’ll return to the spacious barn and get to work on creating an ample, wild, textural, foliage-inspired design in a large bowl. If you’re a floral designer looking to crack a creative rut, this class could really help you step out of your flower-focused comfort zone and embrace new materials. If you’re a farmer florist, this class will definitely expose you to lots of new cultivars for cut foliage (can you really ever have enough??). And if you’re new to floral design, this class will be super relaxed and fun while still teaching you all the basics of creating a beautiful, lush centerpiece.
Registration opens on September 15th.
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SEASON FINALE
Date: Saturday, OCTOBER 15, 2022
Time: 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm | Philadelphia PA
The long low golden rays of the autumn sun will touch on the very last of our flowers to bloom before frost in this final workshop of our season that uses fresh flowers. The cold nights will have turned the jewel-tones of the dahlias into something you can’t quite believe, proving Mother Nature is indeed a sorceress. The meadow will be full of dying grasses and seed pods to forage. The swan song of a field about to give up the last of its spirit for the season is intensely beautiful and somehow unexpectedly calming. Find your center in this wild space before the winter sets in. A unique moody vessel will be provided for each student to use and is yours to keep. Walk long rows of blooms at the farm and harvest as your heart desires. Learn how to craft a lush dramatic arrangement full of wildness. Sip mulled cider or wine if the chill in the air is too much.
Registration opens on September 15th.
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NO-TILL FLOWERS FIELD DAY
Date: Friday, October 28, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: Love ‘n Fresh Flowers Farm | Philadelphia PA
Join Jennie, host of the No-Till Flowers Podcast, to discuss several strategies for growing practices that will go beyond sustainability to actually regenerating our earth. For this late autumn field day, we’ll be looking at no-till tulips, no-dig dahlias, worm bins, composting systems, planting a hoop house for early spring harvests, soil testing, and more. Meet like-minded growers who can help support you on your journey to being a better steward of the earth. Get away from your own farm at the end of a long season to gain invaluable perspective!
Registration opens on September 28th.
Hello, I am interested in the large urn class on 10/1 but have not taken floral design classes. I do however do floral arranging with silk flowers for restaurants, etc. Would this class be appropriate for me and what is the cost?
Thank you
Michele
Hi Michele – Yes, all of our classes are appropriate for beginners so you’re absolutely welcome to come! 🙂 We’d love to have you!
Hello, do you have any classes coming up or currently? Thank you
Michele
Yes, we have our full schedule for 2023 listed here on our workshop. https://lovenfreshflowers.com/workshops/flower-workshop-schedule/ We’d love to have you join us!