Celebrate Beauty in Every Season

Abundant and ever-changing...our favorite bloom is what's growing on our Pennsylvania farm each day. Whether you need a lush bouquet from your favorite local shop or a party bucket overflowing with flowers and greens, join us in being inspired by the beauty of every season.

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About Us

Michelle Elston started Roots in 2007 as a tiny farm just outside of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. With a commitment to growing sustainably, sharing beauty, and working with the land and seasons, the goal was a simple one: have meaningful and viable horticultural work while raising her young children.

Growing beyond her wildest dreams, Roots now includes a team of more than 15 people who farm alongside Michelle on 10 beautiful acres of rolling, rocky land. With fields and processes geared toward production, we grow flowers for over 27,000 bouquets and 450 bulk buckets every year. Even though Roots flowers can now be found at shops and events across Pennsylvania, our commitment to sustainability, beauty and seasonality remains.

Find Our Flowers

Buy Roots at your favorite local shop, through pre-ordered buckets, or at events held on and off the farm. We select content for our buckets and bouquets based on what's looking best the day of harvest...we love seeing what's new and lovely each week of our growing season. More details below!

*Sorry, we do not offer: wedding design, u-pick or photo shoots.

Please check with your local florist for wedding work or residential delivery.

Buckets of flowers and greens on wire rack

Without a storefront, we rely on the partnerships of our wonderful local friends to stock Roots bouquets.
(Be sure to double-check shop hours and bouquet availability.)

Farmer Michelle speaking to tour group on the farm

For Flower Farmers

Michelle’s consulting passion centers around the business side of flower farming and navigating self-employment: balancing family/farm, profitability and metrics, and increasing production. Aimed toward experienced growers, these consultations are designed to take your flower farm to the next level.

Consult with Michelle

We also offer annual field tours led by Michelle that are geared toward professional flower farmers.

And above all, be sure to join the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers.

Check for Upcoming Growers Tours

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Treat yourself or someone special to locally-grown, deluxe bouquets available in monthly or weekly sessions. Spots are limited.

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Spring clean out your closets!
We are doing a fun promotion this SATURDAY @simply_yoga_and_fitness Open House. From 9-11am, bring us your used vases and jars, and we will give you an adorable tulip cup! In honor of Earth Day, we are collecting all your unwanted vases to re-use.
**Please, no colored glassware. We can use any size jar but need to have labels removed. We also cannot use bud vases. Any other size vase will happily find a new home!**

Simply Yoga Open House is Saturday, April 26, 9-2, but our vase recycle event is 9-11am. @simply_yoga_and_fitness is located in the Penrose Plaza, Carlisle. We hope you will come!

I hear two things when I bump into people around town:
1. I just knew they were your flowers
2. Your flower are just nicer
Why? It’s quite simple. Local = fresher. Fresher = more alive, less bruised, and more diverse. We grow flowers that may not ship well…or sit in a bucket for weeks…or last in a warehouse.
BUT! They have personality, grace, movement, and fragrance!
We all know that this is true of any local agricultural product. You simply cannot beat local when it comes to flavor, color, or quality. This is why @papreferred is doing a big push to promote PA agricultural products - because when in season, they are simply the best.
You can look for the PA Preferred or search their website to see the wild diversity of PA agricultural products. And you can make an effort to support the farmers who live here with you.
(A note to my farmer friends: Join the PA Preferred program! We are stronger together!)

#PAPreferredProud @pennsylvaniagov
“Paid for with Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars.”

Hey Designers! We are trying something new this year. In addition to our bulk buckets, we will offer an occasional availability list of bunches for abundant crops (think tulips, peonies, feverfew, lisianthus, specialty greens and more). We will not publish this every week, but sometimes we have an abundance of the most perfect blooms that we'd love to make available for your events. To join our list, follow the banner on our website and be sure to check the designer box. We look forward to working with you this season!

You all are the best! Thanks to everyone who showed up yesterday @beemansbakedgoods We are back at it today at the beautiful and expanding @talking_breads We will be ready by 9 am and are hustling to make as much as we can. We hope to be there til 2, unless we sell out earlier! So hop on over!

Today! 9am @beemansbakedgoods until sold out! When I say I have then best crew in the world I mean it. Yesterday we were harvesting and arranging flowers “in real time.” We picked what was ready, made bouquets and arrangements, waited for the sun to warm, and did the cycle again. It was a wild ride, and somehow by 4:15 we had finished and made the most beautiful things for your Easter tables with not a stem to spare. The love and dedication of these women is real! We think you’ll see it in the beauty of the flowers they made for you today. Marcy and Beth will be on the porch @beemansbakedgoods and the rest of us will be back at the farm picking more tulips.

Happy as a clams over here working with the most lovely hellebores, tulips, ranunculus and and quince this week. This cool late spring has kept us on our toes, but the flowers are showing up right on time, better than I could have imagined.
Tomorrow Beth and Marcy will be @beemansbakedgoods 9-sold out.
Saturday @talking_breads 9-2:30.

It's been a long time since the calendar and the crops have aligned for us to take the Easter show on the road. (last time was in masking and waiting your turn to enter a store times...) We're spending the week thigh deep in the most beautiful tulip crop and are pumped to be bringing them into the world!
Friday, April 18, 9-sold out @beemansbakedgoods with bouquets, bunches, arrangements and special orders (preorders close today at 5pm!)
Saturday, April 19, 9-2:30 @talking_breads with bunches and bouquets. Part of their annual Easter Egg Hunt- don't be late!

Beth and Marcy can't wait to see you!

This is Quince Double Take Orange, a thornless quince that looks more like a camelia or garden rose. I cannot wait to use these in your vibrant Easter arrangements and bouquets!
Have you heard the Roots Easter plan?
@beemansbakedgoods Friday, on the porch, 9am until sold out. If you want to preorder, this is the only pickup spot for these!
@talking_breads Saturday 9-2:30, as a part of their annual Easter Egg Hunt
We will have tulips in abundance, plus bouquets and jars each day.
Can't wait to see your smiling faces!

I sort of got to thinking about yesterday about how much is happening, growing, changing that we cannot see. This statice crop was planted out a month ago, in freezing conditions and covered with this frost fabric. You can only see a rippling blanket of white most days when I survey the field. But when it rains and presses the fabric down, you can see that the little plants are thriving beneath their blanket. The same is true of tulips, daffodils and other spring bulbs: they do their growth work all winter, rooting in and establishing. In the spring they burst forth in wild bloom and we celebrate. But the truth is that we should also be celebrating the wild, hard, dark, tenacious rooting wrestle just as much. The bloom is just the finish line or the grand finale.
So my goal for myself this week is to try to see the whole person, the whole plant, the whole process. If you're in the dark wrestle, I'm rooting for you. Tenacious, deep roots can be just as beautiful as the bloom.

A few pre-order ONLY items have been added to our shop for pickup Good Friday, April 18 @beemansbakedgoods We will also bring mountains of tulip bunches, smaller arrangements and a few bouquets. Come early for the best selection! 9am until sold out. Pre-order online: rootsflowerfarm.com/shop

Easter! We are doing Easter two exciting ways this year. If you want to preorder, Erin just opened the shop for some exclusive items: deluxe centerpieces, ranunculus bunches, and spring twig wreaths. We will bring these plus much more to @beemansbakedgoods Friday, April 18. We will also be @talking_breads Saturday April 19, as part of their annual Easter Egg Hunt celebration.

Today is the first day our Petal it Forward ambassadors are sending surprise bouquets into the world. Robin, Brenda, Pam and Susan- we want your stories of spreading joy through flowers! We also have a special honor this month to send flowers to a group of wonderful York nurses. (These are all part of the Early Spring Bouquet Club group). Sharing the precious, fleeting beauty of flowers is fueling me these days!
How could you share beauty this week?

Deliveries tomorrow:
🌷Early Spring Bouquet Club Week 1 @simply_yoga_and_fitness and @talking_breads
🪻Jars and bouquets @beemansbakedgoods
🪷extra bouquets @talking_breads for purchase

Do you savor these sweet spring blooms as much as I do? Which is your favorite? I’m correctly stuck in a three way tie between grape hyacinth tulips and ranunculus.

Party Buckets! Erin has been emailing me orders nearly every day and I love printing them off and dreaming of the season to come. Some dates are sold out, so if you are planning an event, we recommend getting your orders in early.
New to the concept? Party Buckets are our bulk bucket option for those who want to design their own flowers. Stuffed with 80-100 stems, they are an incredible value featuring the best the farm has each week. We request content flexibility but do allow a color palette preference (soft, bright, neutrals) or 1-2 favorite colors. The best part is the surprise of what will be in your buckets! Let's get this party started! Full details via rootsflowerfarm.com/diybuckets or link in bio.

Hello Hellebore! A benefit of a very cold winter is to reduce pest populations; we are already seeing this on the farm as these beauties were plagued by aphids last season. This year they are shining! The other name for this flower is Lenten Rose which is quite fitting as we will be featuring these in our Easter arrangements next week. We are offering Easter two ways this year at our two favorite bakeries. Stay tuned for all the details.

First week of bouquet club is FRIDAY and it’s going to be good! We will also have bouquets both @talking_breads and @beemansbakedgoods if you dragged your feet on joining the club. (But I’m going to be very honest, club members always get the best and biggest bouquets for their commitment to the farm.)
We can’t wait to be back in flowers!

@beemansbakedgoods today!!
First of the ranunculus and tulip bunches plus more darling jars. 📣Spring is here📣

More beautiful than any flowers we’ve picked this week. 46 rows of biodegradable plastic laid in perfect soil moisture conditions yesterday. We spread annual rye seed over the pathways the same day, and this is me driving over the paths to smooth them and press the pathway cover crop into the soil for good germination. As the sky crackled with lightning and we look to a forecast of rain, our timing was perfection in a way that could only be viewed as grace.

Our Early Spring Bouquet Club registration closes Sunday. Four weeks of our most premium bouquets, starting April 11. We prioritize club bouquets over all other outlets, so this is the best way to make sure you don’t miss a bloom. Join via rootsflowerfarm.com

“I really love this life” is what was going through my head yesterday afternoon, as I sat on my tractor under a brilliant blue sky. I had just changed the oil (one of my most hated jobs), delivered beautiful flowers (a favorite job), communicated, led, moved irrigation, broken irrigation, made plans, changed plans. But sitting there, tending soil I’ve worked 11 years to improve, I was struck by how much I love my little life. My wish is for you to say the same today about your one beautiful, wild life.

The most joyful jars you’ve ever seen will be dropped off to @beemansbakedgoods this morning. They open at 8…don’t wait! Stuffed with the very first of our tulips, ranunculus, anemones, and narcissus, you can’t help but smile when you see them.

We are picking flowers! These tulips were potted in crates way back in October. They spent their winter in our cooler, at a consistent 38 degrees. In mid-February, I brought them into our unheated greenhouse, and now they are ready to shine! Forcing tulips is a labor of love, and it's worth it to have a few early blooms. My grandpa would call it "wetting your whistle." We will have limited quantities of mixed mason jars and a few tulip bunches delivered to @beemansbakedgoods THURSDAY morning 8am. Go get em!

Sale! Erin has received a surprising number of dried flower requests this past month. We still have a nice inventory, so we are offering a promotion to you crafters. All dried bunches $5 each, minimum order 10 bunches. Email Erin info@rootsflowerfarm.com for a list of what we've got!

Monday morning YES! It's time for flowers. We are working on a mason jar promotion for this weekend. Are you excited? The farm is on the brink of colorful emergence. We can't wait to share these with you.

This is the time of year that I try to note every ephemeral change. Swelling magnolia buds, emerging hellebores, flowering Cornelian cherry. I absolutely love the rapid changes of spring!
This will be a week of announcements: club members please be sure to check your inboxes. We need confirmation from a few of you before we can announce all our Petal it Forward winners!

First of the blooms, on the first day of spring. We are hoping to have bouquets to local stores in a few short weeks; for now these will go to some event work for @dickinsoncollege Erin will email our free Bouquet Club winners today- check your inboxes! Lots happening around here now that spring is springing.

This is the inspiration for our Petal it Forward Bouquet Club promotion. In 2021, I found out about a national program sponsored by the Society of American Florists that takes placed every October. Often, our farm is out of flowers by this time, but in 2021, we had abundance. So, we showed up at four different locations across Carlisle and handed out two free bouquets to unsuspecting recipients. The catch was that they had to share one with a friend.
I'm not sure my heart has ever been quite as full as it was that day! In about an hour, we gave away 600 bouquets. We had a couple on their way to the JP to get married, college students fighting overwhelm, elderly folks needing a boost. The stories were amazing, my crew was inspired by being able to see such joy, I was over the moon.
Our drawing for the 16 free Bouquet Club subscriptions will take place tomorrow, from all existing Club members. Maybe you need a boost? Maybe you want to be early in ordering one for your mom for Mother's Day? Full details via our website, as always!

As I've ventured on my generosity journey this winter, repeatedly, I've been smacked in the face by the kindness returning in expected ways- but only when I've gone first. This has happened enough times, in big enough ways, that I'm paying attention. I can't really explain what is going on, and you can write it off as coincidence if you want. But I'm choosing to see it as a dare! Just how generous can I be??? It seems terrifying! Want to join me?

Our Petal it Forward promotion will gift 16 Bouquet Club subscriptions to current club members who are willing to be kindness ambassadors in our community. We will draw the names on the first day of spring. And there are a zillion other ways you can be radically generous in our community. I'm here to encourage you to try it...

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Celebrate Beauty in Every Season

About Us

Find Our Flowers

Party Buckets

Seasonal Bouquets

Events

Support Our Retail Partners

For Flower Farmers

Subscribe to Seasonal Beauty

Follow the flowers @ rootsflowerfarm

Don't Miss a Bloom!

Don't Miss a Bloom - Subscribe to Our Newsletter!

Celebrate Beauty in Every Season

About Us

Find Our Flowers

Party Buckets

Seasonal Bouquets

Events

Support Our Retail Partners

For Flower Farmers

Subscribe to Seasonal Beauty

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Follow the flowers @ rootsflowerfarm

Don't Miss a Bloom!