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Understory Farm LLC
2076 East Street,
Bridport, VT, 05734,
United States
802-282-6738 understoryfarmvt@gmail.com
Hours
Fri 8am-5pm

understoryfarmvt@gmail.com / 802-282-6738


Ask any flower farmer what question they get asked the most, and the answer is unequivocally: “What is your favorite flower?”

My unequivocal answer is the heirloom chrysanthemum. I like its hot metallic smell. I like that it shows up aft
The dahlias froze on Sunday and I lit the first fire of the season. We sat on the roof of the barn and shivered. We started digging up tubers on Tuesday and finished by Wednesday. We sat in the dirt and the dog sat in our laps and a perfect dollop of
Now that I think about it, eucalyptus might be the longest suffering annual that we grow here in the north country. 

We start the seed in February and, usually, most years, we continue harvesting the foliage until ice forms on our palms. Until you c
We talked about the matter of frost at lunch and collectively decided it wasn’t going to freeze based on the combined one hundred years of farming experience between the five of us.

I trust this kind of primordial decision making. Like finding
I’ve sold approximately zero bunches of this amaranthus this season. Arguably the least popular thing we grow. Maybe it’s too much. Too oddly shaped. Too clumsy. Too inelegant and deliberately obtuse on the eyes. 

But I still grow it yea
I’ve been looking forward to the end of summer. An embarrassing thing to admit. With all of its sun and warmth and violent plenteous growth. 

But now that it’s now and the me right now sees my own breath in the dark of the morning and lo
My favorite parts of the farm right now are the parts least touched. The brume of milkweed. The spilling clematis. The toppling sunflowers and the bee-swarmed celosia. The rudbeckia scooping everything up like a spoon. All the hungriest plants during
I roll out of bed and straight into flowers. After dreaming in flowers. After rolling out of flowers and into bed. It is September afterall, and the lines start to blur. 

We’ve been cutting so many dahlias this week that I’ve started see