2024 Newsletters
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December 2024
HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!
With our growing season complete, and over 7,000 vases donated, we have now turned our attention to making holiday evergreen and grapevine wreaths to keep us funded through the winter months.
Whew! We’re tired and glad to say we’re putting the farm into hibernation for two weeks around the Christmas and New Year holidays. Happy Holidays and Warm Wintering to all!
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November 2024
Special thanks to everyone who helped make the Secret Garden Fundraiser a magical evening on the farm!
We enjoyed great food, great music, great auction items and great support for the new property!
We are now able to put $20,000 toward the purchase of perennials, irrigation supplies and needed tools, and we are humbled by this tremendous outpouring of support from our community. Thank you!
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October 2024
Come dance in the Secret Garden fields with us as we raise funds to turn the open field into a field of flowers. American Honey will provide sweet tunes for dancing, and local chefs from Provisions, Tandem Unicycle, The Lion Chef, and Blissful Belly will provide delicious fare. Wine, beer, hard cider and nonalcoholic beverages will be available as well. Once the field is planted, we won’t have this opportunity again. Come join in the fun!
October 10, 2024, 4-8pm -- Tickets still available!
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September 2024
Dahlias are here! What a delight to see them harvested by the bucketful in all their glorious shapes and shades.
We planted extras in what is normally our vegetable garden, thinking we might need them this year… and we’re so glad we did.
We are using every flower we can grow, and we will happily purchase our veggies at the farmers market this year!
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August 2024
WOW! With your help, we have grown, harvested, arranged and delivered a total of 4,111 donated vases so far this year! We are are amazed and inspired by what we are accomplishing together!
This month, the hydrangeas and lisianthus are glorious, and extra-special bouquets are available for sale.
Save the date — We are excited to announce our first Secret Garden Fundraiser!
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June 2024
Welcome summer!
We've had an amazing spring and have donated a total of 1,845 vases so far this year!Along with our bountiful blossoms, here’s some of what’s happening with Canyon Blooms in June and July… On the farm, Sundays at the Yakima farmers market, Coming soon... fresh flower sales on the farm, how to Help us grow with sponsorships and subscriptions, Meet some of the "Petals" on the Canyon Blooms team, and A nod to a great neighbor.
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May 2024
Happy Mother's Day to everyone!
Yakima’s first Farmers Market of the season opens on Sunday, May 12 at the Rotary Marketplace (the covered pavilion at 15 W Yakima Avenue). We’ll be there with farm-fresh flowers from 9 a.m. to 1p.m., and we hope to see you there, too!
Great News! Brit Guenthard is back as our Farm Manager, and we couldn’t be more thrilled!
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April 2024
Spring is in full swing and the farm is bursting with blooms and excitement!
Studio update -- The studio is now insulated, primed and ready for paint. Farm workshops -- Workshops are scheduled on the second Saturday of each month, April through October.
When you are next visiting the farm, please welcome Tessa Zulauf, our new Field Hand!
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February 2024
We are celebrating an early spring at Canyon Blooms Petals for Patients! — Tulips to brighten the dark winter!
Our forced tulip project was a wild success! We had spectacular growth and bloom quality, and we've found fresh tulips in January and February to be much appreciated by everyone.
What an incredible gift on cold, gray days. Thank you for your support with this successful trial project!
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January 14, 2024
Happy New Year!
We started January with a week of rest and much needed time with family, then we officially kicked off our Studio Makeover Project!
In the past week we have been cleaning out and relocating all of our dried flowers from last season, organizing studio supplies, and preparing farm tools for next season.
Big changes have begun…
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2023 Newsletters
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December 7, 2023
Many thanks to the volunteers who helped create wreaths!
They captured the beauty of these gorgeous flowers and showed them off in true Petals style. We are also grateful for the long, glorious fall that allowed us to finish putting the fields to bed. We are now busy finishing our seed cleaning and inventorying our seed stock for next year.
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November 7, 2023
To our wonderful donors —
Your generous support this growing season enabled us to gift vases of fresh flowers to residents of 10 nursing homes and memory care facilities and Gift vases to patients in hospice care to name a few. A total of 4,000 vases this year! We couldn’t have done it with out you! Thank you.
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October 16, 2023
Greetings from the team at Canyon Blooms Petals for Patients!
The seasons are transitioning, and as we move from the busyness of summer to the more leisurely pace of autumn, we’re taking this opportunity to send you an update. You will find reports from most of our team leaders to give you a well-rounded picture of the farm.
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