Hi! Wood Frog Flowers is the project of me, Marya. I grew up on a certified organic vegetable farm, hanging out in the greenhouse in the spring, learning to weed asparagus, and spending most of my childhood Saturdays at the farmers markets. This way of living stuck.

After moving back to Vermont after college, I started growing and drying flowers on the weekends, while working full time on a dairy farm. I chose to work with dried flowers because I enjoyed the creativity and making arrangements that I knew would help bring summer into people’s homes in the winter - I often joke that dried flowers are the low-carbon way to avoid seasonal depression, and much cheaper than flying to the Bahamas. I also appreciated that growing dried flowers would fit around a full time job; I could grow and dry them in the summer, without having to worry about arranging or selling them until the fall. 

Since 2020, Wood Frog Flowers has grown from a side hobby to a full season venture, with not just dried flower arrangements, but also fall pansy seedlings, holiday balsam wreaths, and how-to classes. As I’ve been able to dedicate more time to farming for myself, I’ve started growing potatoes and winter squash for wholesale accounts, because it’s important to me to feed people, as well. 

Wood Frog Flowers is located on the same organic vegetable farm (Camp Merrishko) that I grew up on. This was the land I first learned to love working outside, watering seedlings, and watching thunderstorms on. It’s also the land where I first came to terms with the hard parts of farming - the stress, the way it can break your body, and the fact that most food in this country is produced by inadequately paid farmworkers who do break their bodies, just so we can eat. I love farming, but I also feel a moral duty to help feed and maintain my community, rather than asking someone else to do that for me. As we face climate change and increasingly hard to access land, I’m grateful to be able to do this work on the farm that raised me.