Forage & Field

25/10/2026

Ah the delicious smell of sweet pea heaven!

This one has just been delivered to Maungakaramea Service Station 🫶

What a beaut weekend for getting in the garden and planting out our summer dahlia patch. Summer is a'coming!

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19/10/2026

Back at The Office Cafe with some spring posies. Great coffee, great food, and fab people.

18/10/2026

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Brights on a beautiful day!

17/10/2026

Some precious moments in my garden today

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12/10/2026

Hi guys,

Spring bouquets for sale. Any size to fit your budget. These ones below are sold but plenty more available!

I'll have bunches going up to Gas Mgk later on in the week.

Thanks for all the support.

Rach 🫶

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12/10/2026

10/10/2026

Here is what is flowering in my garden right now. Mid spring spikes like snapdragons and foxgloves, fragrant freesias, daffs, and dianthus, with the sweet peas just starting. Lacy Orlaya, and the stalwart blooms of yesteryear Carnations, Grannies Bonnets, and Alstromeria.

Roses are also about to bloom, and are a favourite of mine.

The lime green of Euphobia, snowy branches of Spirea, and downy Apple mint provide interesting scent and shape in bouquets.

I am growing quite a few cut flower perennials this year too.

Exciting!

04/10/2026

Some gorgeous $20 Spring bouquets available up at Gas now. Filled with all the good stuff like snapdragons, stock, daffs, freesias...smelling divine!





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03/10/2026

Well that was a magic day!

A morning spent at the beautiful home and gardens of Aila and mum Astrud.

Aila is a young flower farmer and florist, who runs a perennial nursery on-site, and has a business called Hands in the Dirt. I attended her first workshop of the season; how to make a Spring hand-tied bouquet.

The flower selection and colours were so divine. I wish I had those type of flowers to play with all the time!

One day 👌

It felt like a much needed recharge, from walking around the gardens, to making bouquets, chatting to other flower mad ladies, and eating delicious treats. So good!

Plus I came home with some exciting new perennials and some annuals for my gardens 😁

02/10/2026

When I'm not in the garden or the potting shed, you will find me driving the backroads as a rural postie.

I love my job, but I don't love the 4.30am wake up call that comes with it 🤣

I like my sleep. Alot.

It's 7.30pm on a Friday night and I'm in bed with a cuppa and a pile of books.
I'm off to a floral workshop in Warkworth in the morning with Jen Mein, a whole morning to play with flowers! Should be awesome 👌

Plus I have the Maungakaramea Crop Swap on Sunday; which is such a fun way to share produce with the community. We plan to take seedlings, and honey.

And while there is a brief break in bouquet making, there are still seeds being sown, seedlings transplanted, cuttings to take, dahlias waking up, and garden beds to mulch and fertilise. It's such a busy time!

Here's a few snapshots of my week. Hope everyone has a fab weekend 😍

Rach x 🌸