Seasonal Flowers and CSAs

Black Dog Flower C. - 2025 Bouquet CSA/Subscription

What is a CSA?

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture.  Investing in a CSA means you are investing in the future of a family and their farm. The purpose of a CSA is to connect the consumer and producer and by investing in your subscription, you are helping pay for supplies and sharing in the harvest.  As you will find out, harvest can be very different from week to week and even day to day. Your bouquets will most likely differ in flowers and size, but you will always get the retail value of each bouquet and most likely much more. The 2025 Bouquet CSA is essentially a weekly or biweekly/bimonthly bouquet subscription that runs for TEN weeks during the 2025 growing season.  

Who you are supporting:

Black Dog Flower Co. is located in Hudson, MI, and we are moving into our seventh (whoa!) growing season.  It is owned by Dana Hicks, who couldn’t do it without the help of her husband Eric, and a couple of amazing farm helpers!  We grow gorgeous specialty cut flowers without using chemicals, pesticides or insecticides, and we always try to do what is best for the soil, bees, and butterflies.  We also design for weddings throughout the year, take custom orders for parties and showers, teach workshops, design wreaths, and even sell wholesale to retailers on occasion. Our goal is to share the joy and beauty of local, Michigan, and American grown flowers with as many people as possible!

In a nutshell: 

Your support at the front end of our season (during the fall and winter months) helps us buy what we need to grow gorgeous flowers, and in return, you will receive BEAUTIFUL bouquets for your enjoyment (or as a gift you could give to others).  CSA members get the best of what is blooming and your weekly bouquets will reflect the diverse succession of blooms throughout the summer. Your flowers are NEVER older than 24 hours by the time they get to your pick up location.  

If you plan to become a part of our CSA:  

CSAs can VARY GREATLY from week to week.  For example, If your CSA week misses a sunflower bloom by 3 days, you might not get sunflowers that week or the next and another CSA might. Dahlias might bloom later than anticipated - or sooner!  We can never guarantee anything specific but we do guarantee beautiful farm flowers every week.  You get what is blooming and you get the freshest possible flowers! They are ALWAYS worth the retail value (a single dahlia retails for $6 or more!), are unique, smell amazing, and last long when properly cared for. Flowers are typically placed into mason jars; this is not high end design, it is a farm share, but they are very beautiful. Some weeks you will find that your jar may be extra full and would do better if you put it into a bigger vase at home. Your flowers will vary in colors and style greatly from week to week…if you are picky, this might not be the option for you. Subscription members should be open to all colors (brights, lights, muted, etc.), styles, and going with the flow of the season! In my opinion, this is what makes it fun!!   

This year's CSA will run 10 weeks; mid -July - mid- September.  Price of a full subscription (10 bouquets) will be $250, the price of a biweekly subscription (5 bouquets) is $125, and the price of a Luxe Home & Business Delivery subscription is $300.  Tax will be added as well.  We are limited in our membership in order to assure enough flowers for everyone.  Pick up Subscriptions will be in mason jars that should get returned weekly, Luxe subscriptions will be in vases.

**Any bouquets not picked up by the end of the next day are graciously gifted to the businesses and their employees**

Three Options and ONE IS NEW!

• THURSDAY - Sandbar Cafe- WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION: Your bouquets will be available for pick up weekly, on THURSDAYS, during business hours at the Sandbar Cafe, starting at 9am of that day.   

• Dates - July: 10, 17, 24, 31. Aug: 7, 14, 21, 28, . Sept: 4, 11, 18 (One of these days will be a vacation week)

• TUESDAY - BROOKLYN - BIWEEKLY: Your bouquets will be available for pick up on TUESDAY at Kate’s Art School during business hours of 1:30pm and 7pm.  

• Dates - July: 22. Aug: 5, 19, Sep: 2, 16. 

• TUESDAY - LUXE HOME & BUSINESS DELIVERY: Your arrangements will be delivered between the hours of 9am and 1pm.

• Dates - July: 15, 29. Aug: 12, 26 Sep: 9.

How to care for your fresh cut flowers:

-Fresh cut flowers are THIRSTY.  Please make sure you give them plenty of water those first few days.  They will drink their jar dry quickly. 

-DO NOT use softened water. The salt content kills flowers prematurely.  House plants don’t like it either!

-Recut the stems for good water uptake. 

-Keep out of sun, heat, and away from ripening fruit for the longest vase life.