BearCountryBlooms strives to provide the freshest flowers, vegetables and baked goods to our customers at farmer’s markets and at our farm stand. We have held a cottage food license since 2018 and expanded our menu to include sourdough in 2024. We use organic practices for all our produce. Our breads are baked using our own produce and live sourdough cultures. Our signature salsas includes our homegrown organic tomatoes, peppers, garlic and onions. We are proud of the fact that we don’t use any pesticides or herbicides on our plants/shrubs/trees. Hundreds of types of plants grow in our one acre lot located 45 minutes west of the Twin Cities. Scroll down to see where you can purchase our products all summer long. Information about our sourdough subscriptions will be available later this summer. We offer delivery in much of Carver County from October-May.

Planning for our Farmer’s Market season begins only a few weeks after the end of the previous season. We order seeds, collect seeds from the plants we can and start testing out new recipes in the kitchen. Often there is still salsa to can and right before the ground freezes we plant the garlic. All of these things happen while still baking weekly for the farm stand and for delivery customers. Sprinkle in knitting and other crafting and I guess you could say Market Season never ends for us.

Baking weekly has been such a blessing for our family. The steady income has transformed how we budget and has given us some wiggle room to make some home improvements and invest in some equipment for our micro-bakery. We couldn’t do what we do without your continued support. Thank you for loving our organic veggies, salsa, breads and flowers as much as we do!

CONTINUING IN 2025

2025 will mostly likely be our last season offering summer flower subscriptions until our peony patch has matured enough to offer June subscriptions of those. We are slowly but surely transitioning to more perennial blooming flowers vs. the labor intensive seed starting of annuals. Don’t worry! We will still be drowning in flowers in the summer months and will grow 20+ varieties of annuals in one of our plots. We will sell from our driveway stand when we have extra flowers, but if you crave fresh local flowers a subscription is the way to go. We are exited to continue our partnership with Logan Pass Coffeehouse in Cologne as one of our pick up locations on FRIDAYS all summer.

NEW MARKET SCHEDULE STARTS THE FIRST WEEK IN JUNE 2025

Tuesdays we’ll be in the Cologne Academy parking lot: 1221 S. Village Parkway, Cologne from 3:30-6:30.

Wednesdays we’ll be in the Alli B’s Coffee Shop parking lot: 640 Railroad Dr., Norwood from 3:00-6:00pm

Thursdays we’ll be in the parking lot in front of Freshwater Church: 138 First St W, Waconia from 4:00-7:00pm

Fridays we will drop off subscription bouquets and any extra bouquets to sell at Logan Pass Coffeehouse at 202 Paul Ave N, Cologne

2024 RECAP & LOOKING FORWARD TO 2025

2024 was a whirlwind of flowers and flour. When we added sourdough to our menu we had no idea it would take off like it did. We were kept very busy juggling it all while still maintaining our garden and dedication to our flower customers. By the grace of God we had a wet June which really helped get the flowers off to a great start while I was busy baking. Highlights of the 2024 season: Meeting so many new customers at the new Bongard’s location, finding new flavors of sourdough muffins to bring to the market, the introduction of our new farm stand and offering weekly pick up (and now delivery!) of our sourdough on Fridays once the market ended.

2025 has been off to a busy start! I maintained a weekly baking schedule and enjoyed my drives around Carver County getting breads in the homes of our wonderful customers. This spring we have been putting the farm stand out on Fridays and it has worked out wonderfully. We have the best, most honest and understanding customers! You can continue to pre-order bread until market season starts the first week in June here.

Our seedlings are getting moved to the greenhouse soon and before we know it they will be producing beautiful blooms and produce that we’ll bring to the market. When we have extras we’ll put the farm stand out. The best way to get notified about those buying opportunities is to follow us on Facebook at Carrie Pauly Designs or on Instagram at @BearCountryBlooms.

As always we are so grateful for your support of our homemade and handmade life here at BearCountryBlooms! THANK YOU!

Get a behind the scenes look at what we grow in the gardening section of the website and on Instagram at @BearCountryBlooms