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Learn how to create a lush + airy hand-gathered bouquet design on a private rose farm in the bucolic Sacramento Valley of California.
Immerse yourself in the invigorating magic of the shifting seasons as late summer simmers into early fall, when the flowers are flushed with seasonal color and vigor, and when a grounding sensation rises from the warm flower fields as they sift the new cool evening air. Join us in this poetic time of year for a lush and airy hand-gathered bouquet design workshop, full of fresh seasonal flowers and garden roses from Menagerie Farm and Flower, with featured designer and instructor Jen Lagedrost Cavender of Nectar + Bloom.
Our luxury workshop is located in Live Oak (95953) the beautiful 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 & Jen. 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.
During the workshop, Jen will guide you through two holistic and poetically-spirited bouquet design sessions, where you will learn her compositional approach to floral design and her favorite techniques for crafting lush and airy hand-gathered bouquets with intention and confidence. You will learn how to craft and create two bouquets, one a full bridal bouquet, and the second a smaller maiden bouquet or market wrap, allowing you to practice the techniques and diversify your skills. You will also learn Jen’s favorite methods for how to develop a harmonious color palette as well as how to select blooms for a recipe inspired by the organic compositions of nature all around you. Jen is passionate about translating the artistic cues of nature to compose meaningful experiences in the language of flowers, and she will guide you in incorporating this nature-inspired approach into your design work.
Our day 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. 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!
Jen is a published poet and former professor of English, Literature, and Creative Writing. She started her floral design studio Nectar + Bloom, where she creates poetic floral designs and teaches holistic floristry, quite unexpectedly. Despite having grown up on an organic produce farm in the Midwest, where Jen and her sister grew their own flowers and arranged bouquets to sell at their parents’ farmers market stand throughout their childhood summers, Jen never could have imagined in a million years that this foundation in flowers, in the soil, and on an expanse of land blessed and battered by the relentless beauty of the seasons, would come full circle for her.
After moving to San Diego for college, where she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in English, Jen sought unique jobs in inspiring landscapes around the world where she could write while funding her travels, including working as a ranch hand in the mountains of Wyoming and as a barista in Queenstown, New Zealand. She continued to collect inspiration from the expanses of nature and its incredible cycles and beauty all the way through her graduate studies in Creative Writing and Poetry back in San Diego a few years later.
After completing her Master’s Degree, and in the midst of teaching her last two semesters of English at the university, Jen discovered floral design while she and her husband Carr were hiring vendors for their wedding. For Jen, it was as though a secret doorway to a deeply longed for opportunity to draw together everything she loved most had just burst open.
In starting her own floral design studio, Jen could return to flowers and to creating with her hands, and it gave her work as an artist that engaged her entrepreneurial spirit, applied the frameworks of composition from her academic studies, and also allowed her to return to her love of teaching. This kind of transformative culmination is what Jen loves to support most when teaching and guiding her student designers and mentees.
Jen is a certified yoga teacher, reiki practitioner, and student of Ayurveda. She is also a former collegiate cross country runner and is passionate about incorporating healing, health, and wellbeing into her approach to floristry as a business and field of creative work.
As a writer, artist, and educator, Jen teaches workshops in floral design from her studio, in destination locations on flower farms or near inspiring natural spaces around the world, and online in her Nectar Online Studio courses and Poetry of Flowers educational floristry membership. Her studio is based in San Diego, California.
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-3pm on Saturday, September 9, 2023.
Arrivals & Introductions
Rose Field Tour
Floral Bouquet Instruction
Farm Lunch
Student Bouquet Design
This event includes a farm picnic lunch & refreshments, all materials, including floral supplies and all flowers to make your bouquets and a professional photograph 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.
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 $2,300 for our Bring a Friend Ticket EARLY BIRD & $2,500 for our Bring a Friend Ticket REGULAR. This ticket is for two people to attend. Ticket must be purchased by one attendee and we will contact you after purchase for the second attendee’s contact information. We cannot pair you up with another person, you have to find a buddy to take advantage of this special bring a friend rate. There are only 5 sets of these special tickets available and they are first come first serve. When they sell out only single tickets will be available.
Total investment is $1,275 for our Single Ticket EARLY BIRD and $1,475 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 create a lush + airy hand-gathered bouquet design on a private rose farm in the bucolic Sacramento Valley of California.
Immerse yourself in the invigorating magic of the shifting seasons as late summer simmers into early fall, when the flowers are flushed with seasonal color and vigor, and when a grounding sensation rises from the warm flower fields as they sift the new cool evening air. Join us in this poetic time of year for a lush and airy hand-gathered bouquet design workshop, full of fresh seasonal flowers and garden roses from Menagerie Farm and Flower, with featured designer and instructor Jen Lagedrost Cavender of Nectar + Bloom.
Our luxury workshop is located in Live Oak (95953) the beautiful 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 & Jen. 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.
During the workshop, Jen will guide you through two holistic and poetically-spirited bouquet design sessions, where you will learn her compositional approach to floral design and her favorite techniques for crafting lush and airy hand-gathered bouquets with intention and confidence. You will learn how to craft and create two bouquets, one a full bridal bouquet, and the second a smaller maiden bouquet or market wrap, allowing you to practice the techniques and diversify your skills. You will also learn Jen’s favorite methods for how to develop a harmonious color palette as well as how to select blooms for a recipe inspired by the organic compositions of nature all around you. Jen is passionate about translating the artistic cues of nature to compose meaningful experiences in the language of flowers, and she will guide you in incorporating this nature-inspired approach into your design work.
Our day 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. 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!
Jen is a published poet and former professor of English, Literature, and Creative Writing. She started her floral design studio Nectar + Bloom, where she creates poetic floral designs and teaches holistic floristry, quite unexpectedly. Despite having grown up on an organic produce farm in the Midwest, where Jen and her sister grew their own flowers and arranged bouquets to sell at their parents’ farmers market stand throughout their childhood summers, Jen never could have imagined in a million years that this foundation in flowers, in the soil, and on an expanse of land blessed and battered by the relentless beauty of the seasons, would come full circle for her.
After moving to San Diego for college, where she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in English, Jen sought unique jobs in inspiring landscapes around the world where she could write while funding her travels, including working as a ranch hand in the mountains of Wyoming and as a barista in Queenstown, New Zealand. She continued to collect inspiration from the expanses of nature and its incredible cycles and beauty all the way through her graduate studies in Creative Writing and Poetry back in San Diego a few years later.
After completing her Master’s Degree, and in the midst of teaching her last two semesters of English at the university, Jen discovered floral design while she and her husband Carr were hiring vendors for their wedding. For Jen, it was as though a secret doorway to a deeply longed for opportunity to draw together everything she loved most had just burst open.
In starting her own floral design studio, Jen could return to flowers and to creating with her hands, and it gave her work as an artist that engaged her entrepreneurial spirit, applied the frameworks of composition from her academic studies, and also allowed her to return to her love of teaching. This kind of transformative culmination is what Jen loves to support most when teaching and guiding her student designers and mentees.
Jen is a certified yoga teacher, reiki practitioner, and student of Ayurveda. She is also a former collegiate cross country runner and is passionate about incorporating healing, health, and wellbeing into her approach to floristry as a business and field of creative work.
As a writer, artist, and educator, Jen teaches workshops in floral design from her studio, in destination locations on flower farms or near inspiring natural spaces around the world, and online in her Nectar Online Studio courses and Poetry of Flowers educational floristry membership. Her studio is based in San Diego, California.
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-3pm on Saturday, September 9, 2023.
Arrivals & Introductions
Rose Field Tour
Floral Bouquet Instruction
Farm Lunch
Student Bouquet Design
This event includes a farm picnic lunch & refreshments, all materials, including floral supplies and all flowers to make your bouquets and a professional photograph 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.
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 $2,300 for our Bring a Friend Ticket EARLY BIRD & $2,500 for our Bring a Friend Ticket REGULAR. This ticket is for two people to attend. Ticket must be purchased by one attendee and we will contact you after purchase for the second attendee’s contact information. We cannot pair you up with another person, you have to find a buddy to take advantage of this special bring a friend rate. There are only 5 sets of these special tickets available and they are first come first serve. When they sell out only single tickets will be available.
Total investment is $1,275 for our Single Ticket EARLY BIRD and $1,475 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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