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This TIME article was sent to me by one our members a few weeks ago and I have not stopped thinking about it. It describes, almost exactly, what we are building at our private flower farm and homestead in Santa Cruz. The headline finding is the one that travels: fifteen minutes outside is enough to […]
If you have ever wondered why flower farms keep chickens, you have probably been given the same answer everyone gives: compost, fertility, a beautiful closed-loop system where the birds feed the soil that feeds the flowers. We are going to be honest with you. That is not why we keep ours. At Dynomite Farm we […]
Baby chicks on a flower farm have a way of resetting everything. It starts before you even open the lid. A soft, layered chorus, not chirping exactly, more like small urgent questions being asked all at once. You carry the box in from wherever it came to rest, set it on a surface, and stand […]
Santa Cruz dahlias have a season unlike anywhere else in California. At Dynomite Farm, we grow 500+ Dahlias and over 100 varieties across 19 raised beds for guests to cut by hand. Dahlias are the signature crop at Dynomite Farm — the flower we’ve spent years selecting, trialing, and falling a little more in love […]
Flower picking Santa Cruz is a rare experience — and Dynomite Farm is one of the few places in the area where you can do it privately, and with over 100 dahlia varieties blooming around you. We are a small, appointment-only flower farm in a Santa Cruz neighborhood. From late June through October, we open […]
If you want to pick your own flowers Santa Cruz is not overflowing with options — but Dynomite Farm is one of them, and it is unlike anything else in the area. We are a small, private flower farm tucked into a Santa Cruz neighborhood. We grow over 100 varieties of dahlias across 19 raised […]
Dynomite Farm is where u-cut flowers Santa Cruz visitors have been booking all season long — and right now, the dahlia buds are just beginning to show. Something is happening out in the beds. The buds are showing all across the farm. The 2026 season is almost here. After weeks of watching green shoots push […]
Dahlia Farm Santa Cruz: It happened over many mornings at this dahlia farm in Santa Cruz, bed by bed, row by row. Now every raised bed at this dahlia farm in Santa Cruz holds a dahlia tuber waiting to wake up. 486 plants. 102 varieties. All in the ground here in Santa Cruz, California. For […]
Enjoyed having a cinematography team from the University of California Santa Cruz here on Sunday to work on a project for Dynomite Farm. Looking forward to seeing what this talented crew comes up with.
Dahlia season Santa Cruz is officially underway at Dynomite Farm. The soil finally said Yes and the Santa Cruz dahlias at Dynomite Farm are going into the ground. We have been watching the thermometer for weeks. When it climbed above 60 degrees and stayed there, that was our green light. As of today, hundreds of […]
Behind the scenes at Dynomite Farm, most of the work happens in the field. This week it happened at a laptop, because we rebuilt our Santa Cruz flower farm website from the ground up. I want to share a little of what that looked like and why it matters for the farm and particularly for […]
Dynomite Farm is the flower farm Santa Cruz has needed — a small, private, sustainable flower growing project open by appointment only, where people can walk through the beds and cut their own bouquet. We grow dahlias in the summer and ranunculus in the spring across 19 raised beds in our Santa Cruz neighborhood. This […]
