Our 2024 Season is Blooming!
Join us for Dahlia Safari and You-Pick Bouquets!


Tuesdays 5-7pm (4-6pm beginning 9/24/24).
Fridays 10am-1pm.
Any weekend events will be announced on Instagram & Facebook, so be sure to follow us! Season predicted to end on 10/13/24.

About Beeline Blooms

    We started Beeline Blooms Flower Farm in 2022 to bring color and joy back to our mountain community, devastated by the CZU Lightning Complex Fire. The response was stupendous! Visitors loved wandering the rainbow rows, finding solace and inspiration. Guests donated generously to our Friends of Alba Schoolhouse nonprofit, and we raised more than $10,000 together!

    At Beeline Blooms, we've cultivated a unique experience for our visitors. From volunteer opportunities to educational workshops, our farm is more than just a field of flowers. We invite you to embark on a Dahlia Safari, a one-of-a-kind journey through our vibrant blooms. Immerse yourself in the beauty, capture memories, and even take some of it home. While on Safari, you may also take some beauty home by harvesting your gorgeous bouquet of dahlias.

    Visiting our Dahlia Oasis is $5 per adult, and kids are free.
    You-Pick bouquet experience is $28 & includes flowers, jar & taxes.
    We will offer blooms by the bucketful if we have abundant flowers for $65.
    Cash preferred to avoid fees, but we also accept Venmo, PayPal & credit cards. 

    Our public openings are dictated by the weather, which controls the blooming of the flowers. Please follow us on Instagram or Facebook for the most current information, as things can shift quickly up here on the ridge.

    We are raising funds for a shaded outdoor classroom and gathering space. We lost more than 100 trees to the CZU fire and desperately need shade to make the field more comfortable for visitors. If you enjoy your experience on the farm, please consider growing together with us by donating to our love project. Thank you in advance for your support!

Former Forest

Our Story

In August 2020, our property in Ben Lomond, CA, was burned over by the CZU Lightning Complex Fire. In addition to a barn, play structure, trampoline, outdoor stage, and bar, we lost most of our small orchard and nearly a dozen bee hives, about half our total.

And many, many big trees.

But our house survived due to a bit of preparation, some unapologetic defiance of evacuation orders, and a lot of luck (mostly luck). Very many of our friends and neighbors were not so lucky.

We disappeared into the desert southwest for a few months afterward, hitting the road in an attempt to turn lemons into lemonade and maybe dig up a few dinosaur bones. And, to be honest, postpone spending our days face-to-face with our formerly green mountain, now burned and brown.

Moving Rock

But eventually, you have to come back home to face the music.

Upon our return, it became clear that over 100 large fir trees were dead or dying and would end up being taken down. Our small forest, complete with stick-forts and a zip-line and dreams of Lost-Boy-level tree-houses, was gone.

So… what do you do with a meadow that used to be a beloved forest? A formerly shaded and sheltered place that now gets full, blistering sun?

You make a flower farm, of course.

Beeline Blooms is our attempt to create and share some beauty with our devastated community. To remember and appreciate why we still love where we live. To rise from the ashes, literally, and remind ourselves that just because things are different doesn't mean they aren't still good. 

Before the Fire

After the Fire

Making the Farm

Special Thanks to Liz Celeste!

For more pictures visit Liz Celeste Photography.

Liz Celeste Photography

Us

Karla
Karla

Karla DeLong is a professional homesteading instructor and an expert in gardening, beekeeping, food preservation, and flower arranging. She can also throw a mean bowl if you let her near a potter's wheel. She spent several years as a Therapeutic Nutrition Culinary Chef Instructor at Bauman College in Berkeley CA, and has worked at Mountain Feed and Farm Supply in Ben Lomond for over a decade, where she is a teacher of all things homesteading.

She and Jessica Tunis host the weekly Instagram Live show "Homegrown Happiness."

Daniel
Daniel
Likes tractors and machines and building things.

The girls
Adaira and Shaelyn
Will someday realize how good they have it.

Sorrel & Indigo
Descended from Dingoes.

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Ben Lomond, CA 95005

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