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 incredible. People loved wandering among the rainbow rows, finding solace and inspiration. Visitors donated towards our Friends of Alba Schoolhouse nonprofit, and together we raised more than $10,000!

For the 2023 season, to support the farm -- and by overwhelming request -- we will sell flowers! Bunches, bouquets and by the bucketful!

Join us to harvest your own gorgeous dahlias during You-Pick events. Our public days and times will change often based on flowers and weather. Please follow us on Facebook and Instagram for the most current information.

We are raising funds towards a community gathering and classroom space. We lost more than 100 trees to the CZU fire, and desperately need shade to make the field more comfortable for visitors. We hope to share our love of regenerative growing through volunteer education and paid workshops. Thank you for your support!

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.

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.

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."

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220 Stephens Lane
Ben Lomond, CA 95005

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Welcome to Beeline Blooms!

Farm and Honey bee Haven

We are preparing for the season, open mid-to-late July 2024. Check our social media for upcoming events.

About Beeline Blooms

Our Story

Before the Fire

After the Fire

Making the Farm

Special Thanks to Liz Celeste!

For more pictures visit Liz Celeste Photography.

Us

Karla

Daniel

Likes tractors and machines and building things.

Adaira and Shaelyn

Will someday realize how good they have it.

Sorrel & Indigo

Descended from Dingoes.

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