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Learn how to harvest garden roses and design an exquisite rose floral designs on a private rose farm in the bucolic Sacramento Valley of California.
Do you dream of growing your own garden roses and designing one of a kind magical floral designs?
If your answer was yes, this hands on creative on farm workshop 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 two day workshop experience, we will cover harvest and post harvest care techniques for garden roses, variety selections plus you’ll create a one of a kind floral centerpiece and hand tied bouquet with our special guest designer Gabriela Salazar of La Musa de Las Flores.
Celebrate spring and join us on the farm during the peak blooms of the season. Students will enjoy two days immersed in the roses. The event includes a tour of our garden rose fields lead by Felicia Alvarez, founder & farmer of Menagerie Farm & Flower, where you’ll get to pick the best spring blooms. You’ll get to harvest stems from the field for design and Felicia will teach you post harvest care to keep the blooms looking their best. Capturing the beautiful lush color and textures of the season, Gabriela Salazar from La Musa de Las Flores will share her passion for table design guiding you as you create your own fresh centerpiece on day one and a hand tied bouquet on day two. A beautiful vase and all floral supplies will be provided for your designs and are yours to keep.
All experience levels are welcome so if you’ve never grown a rose or made a floral arrangement we will make you feel right at home. In addition to our learning sessions we’ll enjoy fresh farm to table lunch each day and a relaxing afternoon happy hour on Saturday.
Our workshop journey will be captured by the amazing Ashley Noelle Edwards Photography so you’ll have a wonderful visual collection of memories from your time at the farm. So grab a friend and enjoy a beautiful sunny day exploring, learning and relaxing on the farm!
Our luxury workshop is located in beautiful Live Oak (95953) in the Sacramento Valley of California at Menagerie Farm & Flower a private garden rose and fruit farm. With a limited number of seats available, we know you will develop intimate friendships with your fellow attendees and have exclusive one on one access to the presenters Felicia & Gabriela. This workshop was created to not only give you the hands on education, that only an on farm educational experiences can, but it is designed for you to connect with fellow attendees in an intimate learning environment where friends become like family.
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!
Taking flowers as her muse, Gabriela Salazar looks to nature as an ever-inspiring source of creativity for her floral design studio La Musa de las Flores. High in the Mexican mountains, in a small town two hours from Mexico City, the florist grows a delicate cut flower garden for her romantic arrangements that echo the relationship between design and nature.
Gabriela wasn't always interested in flower arrangements, but after she moved to London to study Architectural Interiors, the designer fell in love with the colorful array of florals at the New Covent Garden Flower Market. Now the florist lives in Valle de Bravo, after relocating from Mexico City, seeking a tranquil location to grow flowers and be surrounded by nature.
In the local markets, Gabriela struggled to find the colors and varieties she had fallen for in England like garden Roses, Japanese anemones, Helenium’s, hellebores, and variations of Dahlias like cafe au lait or pom pons, and all colors of sweet peas. These blooms inspired her to produce her own garden and allow her arrangements to take on a flow suited to nature. In her practice and the classes, she teaches around the world, Gabriela lets this idea of surrendering to the flowers she grows.
Alongside her English garden, the florist is inspired by her Mexican culture. She loves colors — such as orange and yellow — but mixes them with muted tones to keep the arrangements soft and with a calm energy. Gabriela channels this calm energy into her designs, staying present, and concentrating on creating with flowers; letting them direct the process through their natural beauty. Nature is a huge source of inspiration for all design disciplines, and for a floral designer, all the answers are out there in life; from color palettes to tones, shades, combinations to textures, shapes, lines, movement. Walking through the woods, Gabriela looks towards the contours of branches and trees — their effortless movement, soft, graceful forms. Finding herself wanting to come back to the garden and translate what she sees into a floral arrangement. Beginning by creating a sculptural shape with foliage, Gabriela allows the flowers to guide the arrangement, using a filler flower to set the color palette. She then allows each flower to have their own space to breath inside the arrangement, creating rivers and waves of colors and textures —layers adding movement— before finishing with delicate and soft stem florals to add organic flow softness and a graceful dancing shape.
Gabriela feels as though flowers are not just beautiful to arrange but working with them also teaches you how to be patient, kind, resilient, graceful — offering immeasurable life lessons.
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 on 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.
The workshop will run from 9am-5:30pm on Saturday, May 20, 2023 and 9am-2pm on Sunday, May 21, 2023.
Day One
Arrivals & Introductions
Rose Field Tour
Floral Centerpiece Demonstration
Farm Lunch
Student Centerpiece Design
Centerpiece Photography
Afternoon Happy Hour
Day Two
Morning Rose Harvest & Post Harvest Processing
Hand Tied Floral Bouquet Demonstration
Farm Lunch
Student Bouquet Design
Bouquet Photography
This event includes a farm picnic lunch & refreshments Saturday & Sunday, evening happy hour on Saturday, all materials including floral supplies, all flowers to make your centerpieces & bouquets, gift bag and a professional photographs of your design work delivered to you digitally after the workshop.
No prior gardening or farming experience required. All skill levels are welcome. We’ll make sure you feel right at home with the roses.
This is a floral design focused workshop. It does NOT cover topics related to the business of farming, business planning, shipping flowers, advanced botany or entomology, rose growing techniques, marketing, growing annual flowers or bulbs, growing in hoophouses or greenhouses.
Breakfast & dinner are not included.
Workshop attendees must be over the age of 18 years of age.
Workshop will take place outdoors in our rose field and in our open air barn.
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.
Total investment is $2,995 for our Single Ticket EARLY BIRD and $3,195 for our Single Ticket REGULAR. This ticket is for one person.
Workshop prices increase from early bird pricing on January 1, 2023.
For any additional questions about this workshop, please email hello@menagerieflower.com.
For travel planning Sacramento International Airport (SMF) is the closest airport located about 1 hour south of the farm.
Lodging & transportation to and from Menagerie Farm & Flower are not included with your ticket. There is lodging available in Yuba City, California at a few local hotels & local B&B. There are more lodging options in the greater Sacramento, Chico or Roseville areas but keep in mind that it will be an hour drive to the farm from those locations. For your convenience, we can provide you with a list of local lodging options upon request. Please contact us if you have any questions about planning travel prior to buying your ticket - hello@menagerieflower.com.
Tickets are non-refundable. If the workshop or event is canceled due to weather, or any other reason your ticket purchase price will be given as a credit for use on a future workshop/event or any merchandise available on our website including bare root rose plants or potted roses. Should you not be able to attend your ticket is transferable. We highly recommend if you are traveling from outside the area obtaining trip insurance for your travel.
We do not require you to wear a mask to attend the event/workshop however, as COVID-19 restrictions and requirements for businesses by local and state officials are ever changing we can’t predict what may be in place in our local community at the time of the event/workshop. We ask that attendees adhere to any directives that are in place at the time of the event/workshop. If you have any questions about potential restrictions please contact us prior to purchasing your ticket. We want you to be comfortable during your time at the farm and nursery.
Learn how to harvest garden roses and design an exquisite rose floral designs on a private rose farm in the bucolic Sacramento Valley of California.
Do you dream of growing your own garden roses and designing one of a kind magical floral designs?
If your answer was yes, this hands on creative on farm workshop 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 two day workshop experience, we will cover harvest and post harvest care techniques for garden roses, variety selections plus you’ll create a one of a kind floral centerpiece and hand tied bouquet with our special guest designer Gabriela Salazar of La Musa de Las Flores.
Celebrate spring and join us on the farm during the peak blooms of the season. Students will enjoy two days immersed in the roses. The event includes a tour of our garden rose fields lead by Felicia Alvarez, founder & farmer of Menagerie Farm & Flower, where you’ll get to pick the best spring blooms. You’ll get to harvest stems from the field for design and Felicia will teach you post harvest care to keep the blooms looking their best. Capturing the beautiful lush color and textures of the season, Gabriela Salazar from La Musa de Las Flores will share her passion for table design guiding you as you create your own fresh centerpiece on day one and a hand tied bouquet on day two. A beautiful vase and all floral supplies will be provided for your designs and are yours to keep.
All experience levels are welcome so if you’ve never grown a rose or made a floral arrangement we will make you feel right at home. In addition to our learning sessions we’ll enjoy fresh farm to table lunch each day and a relaxing afternoon happy hour on Saturday.
Our workshop journey will be captured by the amazing Ashley Noelle Edwards Photography so you’ll have a wonderful visual collection of memories from your time at the farm. So grab a friend and enjoy a beautiful sunny day exploring, learning and relaxing on the farm!
Our luxury workshop is located in beautiful Live Oak (95953) in the Sacramento Valley of California at Menagerie Farm & Flower a private garden rose and fruit farm. With a limited number of seats available, we know you will develop intimate friendships with your fellow attendees and have exclusive one on one access to the presenters Felicia & Gabriela. This workshop was created to not only give you the hands on education, that only an on farm educational experiences can, but it is designed for you to connect with fellow attendees in an intimate learning environment where friends become like family.
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!
Taking flowers as her muse, Gabriela Salazar looks to nature as an ever-inspiring source of creativity for her floral design studio La Musa de las Flores. High in the Mexican mountains, in a small town two hours from Mexico City, the florist grows a delicate cut flower garden for her romantic arrangements that echo the relationship between design and nature.
Gabriela wasn't always interested in flower arrangements, but after she moved to London to study Architectural Interiors, the designer fell in love with the colorful array of florals at the New Covent Garden Flower Market. Now the florist lives in Valle de Bravo, after relocating from Mexico City, seeking a tranquil location to grow flowers and be surrounded by nature.
In the local markets, Gabriela struggled to find the colors and varieties she had fallen for in England like garden Roses, Japanese anemones, Helenium’s, hellebores, and variations of Dahlias like cafe au lait or pom pons, and all colors of sweet peas. These blooms inspired her to produce her own garden and allow her arrangements to take on a flow suited to nature. In her practice and the classes, she teaches around the world, Gabriela lets this idea of surrendering to the flowers she grows.
Alongside her English garden, the florist is inspired by her Mexican culture. She loves colors — such as orange and yellow — but mixes them with muted tones to keep the arrangements soft and with a calm energy. Gabriela channels this calm energy into her designs, staying present, and concentrating on creating with flowers; letting them direct the process through their natural beauty. Nature is a huge source of inspiration for all design disciplines, and for a floral designer, all the answers are out there in life; from color palettes to tones, shades, combinations to textures, shapes, lines, movement. Walking through the woods, Gabriela looks towards the contours of branches and trees — their effortless movement, soft, graceful forms. Finding herself wanting to come back to the garden and translate what she sees into a floral arrangement. Beginning by creating a sculptural shape with foliage, Gabriela allows the flowers to guide the arrangement, using a filler flower to set the color palette. She then allows each flower to have their own space to breath inside the arrangement, creating rivers and waves of colors and textures —layers adding movement— before finishing with delicate and soft stem florals to add organic flow softness and a graceful dancing shape.
Gabriela feels as though flowers are not just beautiful to arrange but working with them also teaches you how to be patient, kind, resilient, graceful — offering immeasurable life lessons.
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 on 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.
The workshop will run from 9am-5:30pm on Saturday, May 20, 2023 and 9am-2pm on Sunday, May 21, 2023.
Day One
Arrivals & Introductions
Rose Field Tour
Floral Centerpiece Demonstration
Farm Lunch
Student Centerpiece Design
Centerpiece Photography
Afternoon Happy Hour
Day Two
Morning Rose Harvest & Post Harvest Processing
Hand Tied Floral Bouquet Demonstration
Farm Lunch
Student Bouquet Design
Bouquet Photography
This event includes a farm picnic lunch & refreshments Saturday & Sunday, evening happy hour on Saturday, all materials including floral supplies, all flowers to make your centerpieces & bouquets, gift bag and a professional photographs of your design work delivered to you digitally after the workshop.
No prior gardening or farming experience required. All skill levels are welcome. We’ll make sure you feel right at home with the roses.
This is a floral design focused workshop. It does NOT cover topics related to the business of farming, business planning, shipping flowers, advanced botany or entomology, rose growing techniques, marketing, growing annual flowers or bulbs, growing in hoophouses or greenhouses.
Breakfast & dinner are not included.
Workshop attendees must be over the age of 18 years of age.
Workshop will take place outdoors in our rose field and in our open air barn.
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.
Total investment is $2,995 for our Single Ticket EARLY BIRD and $3,195 for our Single Ticket REGULAR. This ticket is for one person.
Workshop prices increase from early bird pricing on January 1, 2023.
For any additional questions about this workshop, please email hello@menagerieflower.com.
For travel planning Sacramento International Airport (SMF) is the closest airport located about 1 hour south of the farm.
Lodging & transportation to and from Menagerie Farm & Flower are not included with your ticket. There is lodging available in Yuba City, California at a few local hotels & local B&B. There are more lodging options in the greater Sacramento, Chico or Roseville areas but keep in mind that it will be an hour drive to the farm from those locations. For your convenience, we can provide you with a list of local lodging options upon request. Please contact us if you have any questions about planning travel prior to buying your ticket - hello@menagerieflower.com.
Tickets are non-refundable. If the workshop or event is canceled due to weather, or any other reason your ticket purchase price will be given as a credit for use on a future workshop/event or any merchandise available on our website including bare root rose plants or potted roses. Should you not be able to attend your ticket is transferable. We highly recommend if you are traveling from outside the area obtaining trip insurance for your travel.
We do not require you to wear a mask to attend the event/workshop however, as COVID-19 restrictions and requirements for businesses by local and state officials are ever changing we can’t predict what may be in place in our local community at the time of the event/workshop. We ask that attendees adhere to any directives that are in place at the time of the event/workshop. If you have any questions about potential restrictions please contact us prior to purchasing your ticket. We want you to be comfortable during your time at the farm and nursery.
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