Learn how to plant, grow and harvest garden roses on a private rose farm in the bucolic Sacramento Valley of California.
Do you dream of growing out of this world garden roses?
If your answer was yes, this hands-on educational on-farm experience is what you’ve been waiting for. Stroll through our field filled with thousands of garden roses as you immerse yourself in the fragrance and magic of the farm. Over the course of our immersive day experience, we will cover 5 main topics:year round garden rose care, harvesting techniques, post harvest cut rose care, variety selections and insect and disease management.
Just imagine how you could grow beautiful garden roses if you had the answers to these questions:
- What varieties are easy to grow?
- How do I deadhead properly?
- How can I harvest roses as fresh cut flowers and have them last longer in my vase?
- What can I do to manage pests and diseases?
- What tools make the job of rose care easy?
This is the only workshop Felicia teaches each year focused on the cultivating and production of roses. With a limited number of tickets up for grabs, we're keeping the group cozy, giving Felicia the chance to craft unforgettable connections with all attendees. Save your seat today - early bird ticket pricing disappears on January 1, 2025.
Details
Our workshop location is Live Oak (95953) in the beautiful Sacramento Valley of California at Menagerie Farm & Flower, a private garden rose and fruit farm. This is NOT an online workshop course. With limited seats available, we know you will develop intimate friendships with your fellow attendees and have exclusive one on one access to Felicia Alvarez, founder & farmer of Menagerie Farm & Flower. This workshop was created to not only give you the hands-on education that only an on-farm educational experience can, but it is designed for you to connect with fellow attendees in an intimate learning environment where friends become like family.
All experience levels are welcome so if you’ve never grown a rose we will make you feel right at home. In addition to our learning sessions we’ll enjoy fresh farm to table lunch and refreshments. Please send us a message if you have any questions about this one of a kind experience. So what are you waiting for? Get your ticket today. We’d love to have you join us!
Farmer & Instructor
Felicia Alvarez founded Menagerie Farm & Flower specializing in garden roses, specialty flowers, French prunes, assorted stone fruits, nuts and rice on over 100 acres of beautiful California farmland. She is a third generation farmer and entrepreneur who has been farming for over two decades.
Felicia’s sustainable farming practices are an all-inclusive approach to creating a healthy small scale farm. Felicia shares her passion for nature, art, science and farming with educational outreach - teaching her love of the land to both beginning & experienced gardeners and farmers from across the country. Helping others learn simple ways to bring food & flowers together in their home is her greatest joy.
She studied Crop Science & Agricultural Business at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, has been featured in the Sunset Magazine, Slow Flowers Journal, Style Me Pretty, Team Flower, the First Lady’s Luncheon to name a few and serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Certified American Grown Flowers. Her first book, Growing Wonder: A Flower Farmer’s Guide to Roses was released in March 2022. She enjoys spending time on the farm with her husband and two young sons.
Schedule
The workshop will run from 9am-3pm on Saturday, April 26, 2025.
Arrivals & Introductions
Rose Field Tour
Deadheading & Harvesting Demonstration
Post Harvest Care For Cut Garden Roses
Lunch
Rose Variety Selections To Grow As Cut Flowers
Tool Selection & Disease & Pest Management
Open Q&A With Felicia
Important Information
This event includes light morning refreshments, a farm fresh picnic lunch, snacks, and use of all materials needed during the demonstration including gloves and clippers. Plus you’ll get a gift bag full of Felicia's Favorite things and a bouquet of roses to take home. While we do provide all supplies needed for the class, we find most folks like the comfort of using equipment they are familiar with so we encourage you to bring your own clippers and gloves with you if you have them, so you can practice with the tools you will use at home. If you're looking to get a new pair, we recommend Bionic Rose Leather Gloves which can be purchased at our nursery the day of the workshop.
No prior gardening experience required. All skill levels are welcome. We’ll make sure you feel right at home with the roses. This is an interactive class that takes place out in our rose production field. You will be walking over uneven terrain. For the hands on potion of the workshop, including the tour of the field, standing and bending is required to harvest roses. Should you require any activity accommodations or have questions about the physical activity requirements please contact us PRIOR TO PURCHASING your ticket.
This workshop does NOT cover topics related to the business of farming, business planning, shipping flowers, advanced botany or entomology, marketing, growing annual flowers or bulbs, growing in hoophouses or greenhouses or floral design.
Workshop attendees must be over the age of 18 years of age.
The workshop will be held at Menagerie Farm & Flower in Live Oak, California (95953) in the Sacramento Valley. Farm address will be provided after ticket purchase.
Your online email receipt will be your workshop ticket and additional details will be emailed to you prior to the workshop including tips on what to bring with you for the day.
No pets are permitted at this farm workshop.
Workshop prices increase from early bird pricing on January 1, 2025. Early bird ticket $899.99 per person. Standard ticket $999.99 per person.
For any additional questions about this workshop, please email hello@menagerieflower.com.
