Find Mellifera at these upcoming markets and workshops!
July Centerpiece - Churchill St. Restaurant
Learn from an experienced farmer-florist how to craft an expressive, organic floral design that celebrates seasonality. We’ll use only MN/WI-grown flowers, plus foraged goodies reflecting our prairie, river valley, and Northwoods ecosystems. Explore summer flower favorites like zinnias, sunflowers, and dahlias, and meet new-to-you unique varieties!
August Centerpiece - Churchill St. Restaurant
Learn from an experienced farmer-florist how to craft an expressive, organic floral design that celebrates seasonality. We’ll use only MN/WI-grown flowers, plus foraged goodies reflecting our prairie, river valley, and Northwoods ecosystems. Explore summer flower favorites like zinnias, sunflowers, and dahlias, and meet new-to-you unique varieties!
August Centerpiece - Yellowbird Coffee Bar
Learn from an experienced farmer-florist how to craft an expressive, organic floral design that celebrates seasonality. We’ll use only MN/WI-grown flowers, plus foraged goodies reflecting our prairie, river valley, and Northwoods ecosystems. Explore summer flower favorites like zinnias, sunflowers, and dahlias, and meet new-to-you unique varieties!
August Centerpiece - Twin Cities Flower Exchange
Learn from an experienced farmer-florist how to craft an expressive, organic floral design that celebrates seasonality. We’ll use only MN/WI-grown flowers, plus foraged goodies reflecting our prairie, river valley, and Northwoods ecosystems. Explore summer flower favorites like zinnias, sunflowers, and dahlias, and meet new-to-you unique varieties!
FLORAL DESIGN WORKSHOP — American Swedish Institute
Dive into the floral abundance of August at American Swedish Institute. Farmer-florist Elle brings her classic flower arranging workshop to ASI with this centerpiece class. Featuring mid-summer favorites like zinnias, sunflowers, eucalyptus, and more.
Floral Design Intensive - Twin Cities Flower Exchange
In this intimate artistic experience, spend an afternoon honing your floral design skills through creative guidance and peer-to-peer constructive critique. This offering is intended for returning Mellifera workshop participants excited to receive in-the-moment design feedback as they deepen their experience and comfort with expressive, unique arrangements. Explore advanced color theory, arrangement styling tips, how to assess and edit a design as you create, and more. Participants will leave with two finished arrangements, plus a floristry “starter kit” of my preferred snips and color wheel!
August Florals “201” - Haus Theory
Learn from an experienced farmer-florist how to craft an expressive, organic floral design that celebrates seasonality. We’ll use only MN/WI-grown flowers, plus foraged goodies reflecting our prairie, river valley, and Northwoods ecosystems. Explore summer flower favorites like zinnias, sunflowers, and dahlias, and meet new-to-you unique varieties!
September Florals “201” - Yellowbird Coffee Bar
Learn from an experienced farmer-florist how to craft an expressive, organic floral design that celebrates seasonality. We’ll use only MN/WI-grown flowers, plus foraged goodies reflecting our prairie, river valley, and Northwoods ecosystems. Explore summer flower favorites like zinnias, sunflowers, and dahlias, and meet new-to-you unique varieties!
FLORAL DESIGN WORKSHOP - Center for People and Craft
Flowers are the ephemeral swan songs of plants going to seed, ready to send their spirits into the next season. With these fleeting ingredients, learn to craft an expressive, organic floral design that celebrates seasonality.
Teaching at Center for People and Craft for the first time, join farmer-florist Elle to learn color theory, how to see flowers’ structural and textural roles in design, and floristry tips and tricks to maximize vase life and health of your flowers.
FLORAL DESIGN WORKSHOP - Marine Mills Folk School
Mellifera’s classic floral design workshop, hosted just downriver from the farm where your floral ingredients are grown! Just in time for summer’s flower explosion, learn tips and tricks on floral arranging as you craft a seasonal centerpiece with farmer-florist Elle.
MARKET - 47th Annual Holiday Bazaar
Mellifera joins 80 other regional artists and makers for three days of holiday shopping, featuring our wreaths and dried floral decor. Festive music and refreshments available too!
WORKSHOP - Dried Floral Wreaths @ Churchill St.
Transform locally-grown flowers into an everlasting wreath keepsake! Workshop suitable for teens and adults.
WORKSHOP - Dried Floral Wreaths @ Churchill St.
Transform locally-grown flowers into an everlasting wreath keepsake! Workshop suitable for teens and adults.
MARKET - 2nd Annual Churchill Winter Market
We’re back at the Shoreview classic Churchill St. for their local-makers Holiday Market! Stay afterward for a wreath workshop to craft your own holiday decor.
MARKET - Handmade Holiday Market
Brühaven Craft Co.’s tap room transforms into a handmade holiday market featuring local vendors, including Mellifera!
MARKET - Old St. Anthony Holiday Bazaar
Shop two floors of holiday goods in this bright and bustling pop-up market, featuring Mellifera’s best seasonal everlasting wreaths, botanically-dyed goods, and dried floral holiday decor.
MARKET - Doe on the Go
Part of Downton Osceola’s weekend shopping event, find Mellifera at the vendor pop-up on Saturday, Nov. 22nd!
WORKSHOP - Dried Floral Centerpieces @ Haus Theory
Create a dried floral centerpiece to decorate your holiday dining table all season long! Vintage and locally-made vases.
WORKSHOP - Dried Floral Wreaths @ TCFE
Transform locally-grown flowers into an everlasting wreath keepsake! Workshop suitable for teens and adults.
FILM & PANEL: Seed to Stem: The Art & Impact of Flowers
Elle joins Chyrstal Odin (Philadelphia Community Farm) and Liz Dwyer (Dancing the Land Farm) for a film screening of Floret Flowers’ film A Beautiful Pursuit, followed by a panel discussion about local flower farming!
MARKET - Cooper Arts & Crafts Fair
Our first market of the season, with autumnal wreaths and dried marigold garlands!