- Northern Colorado Farms See Growing Interest Pick-Your-Own Flower Adventures
A Budding Trend Last summer, an unexpectedly viral Instagram reel sent visitors from around the state streaming to Garden Sweet in Fort Collins. Rows of pink peonies and a flirty invitation to spend date night picking a $25 bouquet drove unprecedented traffic, eventually landing the farm a spot on 5280 Magazine’s list of the Front… Read more: Northern Colorado Farms See Growing Interest Pick-Your-Own Flower Adventures - Garden Sweet Farm’s Viral Moment, One Year Later
Unexpected Attention In June 2025, a single Instagram reel turned a small Fort Collins farm into one of Colorado’s most talked-about summer stops. Garden Sweet, a pick-your-own flower and berry farm saw a sharp jump in visitors after content creator Kate Zittergruen, who posts under the handle @katekeepswild, shared a video walking through the farm’s… Read more: Garden Sweet Farm’s Viral Moment, One Year Later - Read, Seed, and Grow: Summer Programming for Little Ones at the Gardens on Spring Creek
With Poudre School District officially out for the summer, a handful of Fort Collins families made their way to one of the town’s best-kept secrets — the Gardens on Spring Creek — where the beloved Read and Seed program kicked off its summer season today. The program, one of the longest-running at the Gardens, welcomes… Read more: Read, Seed, and Grow: Summer Programming for Little Ones at the Gardens on Spring Creek - Celebrating 20 Years of Perennial Joys
Joy Andrews’ front yard garden center isn’t technically open for retail business today. Wednesdays are reserved for wholesale accounts and catching up on maintenance. But like the butterflies and bumblebees, people can’t resist stopping by to take in the riot of blooms. And Joy can’t resist breaking from her work and schedule to let them.… Read more: Celebrating 20 Years of Perennial Joys - Growing West: Water, Land, and What Comes Next for Pedaling Petals
Growing West: Water, Land, and What Comes Next for Pedaling Petals Outside her front door and facing the foothills of the Rockies, Heather Hirschi adjusts drip irrigation lines while Tim Diana, her growing partner, broadforks soil in preparation for planting dahlia tubers. The two have been growing flowers together for two years under the Pedaling… Read more: Growing West: Water, Land, and What Comes Next for Pedaling Petals
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