Farm Life
Farm Life
Peony Season Is Starting to Come Into View
Spring moves quickly on the farm this time of year — tulips, bees, and now peonies beginning to rise. This week, the peony field changed almost overnight, and the season...
Peony Season Is Starting to Come Into View
Spring moves quickly on the farm this time of year — tulips, bees, and now peonies beginning to rise. This week, the peony field changed almost overnight, and the season...
A Week of Arranging Flowers
Last week gave me the chance to spend time arranging flowers — combining farm-grown tulips and anemone with a few purchased stems to build one arrangement I especially loved...
A Week of Arranging Flowers
Last week gave me the chance to spend time arranging flowers — combining farm-grown tulips and anemone with a few purchased stems to build one arrangement I especially loved...
Learning New Ground
This week’s learning happened partly in the field and partly behind a screen. A recent website transition has me building new skills in a different kind of soil.
Learning New Ground
This week’s learning happened partly in the field and partly behind a screen. A recent website transition has me building new skills in a different kind of soil.
Prairie Fire and New Beginnings
This week I burned the prairie as part of a conservation project on the farm. Fire clears the way for native grasses and wildflowers, and the next step will be...
Prairie Fire and New Beginnings
This week I burned the prairie as part of a conservation project on the farm. Fire clears the way for native grasses and wildflowers, and the next step will be...
Caring for Bees, Season by Season
January doesn’t slow things down for us. If anything, this is when everything overlaps — flowers, seed trays, greenhouse checks — and somehow the bees are always part of the...
Caring for Bees, Season by Season
January doesn’t slow things down for us. If anything, this is when everything overlaps — flowers, seed trays, greenhouse checks — and somehow the bees are always part of the...
About the Author
I’m Catherine, the heart behind Hive & Petal—a boutique flower farm and apiary in Prairie City, Iowa. When I’m not harvesting blooms or tending honeybees, I’m often crafting something beautiful, cooking something delicious, or watching hens explore the field. I believe in wide open skies, good books, and sharing farm life—one story (or bouquet) at a time.