Seasonal flowers for all occasions.

Blessed Blooms is a cut flower farm providing fresh, locally grown flowers for events and everyday enjoyment. Middle school principal by day and a flower farmer by night, April Smith has turned growing flowers into a business, sharing her flower farm experience with others. Her daughter, Alyssa Short, makes up the other half of their team, designing unique arrangements grown with love. They grow their own blooms from April through October and specialize in wedding florals, market bouquets, and floral subscriptions. In 2023, Blessed Blooms expanded into a location with local vendor farmers market and events as well as a vintage furniture and decor storefront.

There is no cost to attend, but registration is required. To register for any (or all) of the meetings in this series, visit go.illinois.edu/twilightseries or call (618) 695-2441.

Explore Additional Programs in the Southern Illinois Summer Twilight Series

During warm summer evenings, you’ll find our Local Foods team hosting events to highlight and demonstrate diverse farming enterprises across southern Illinois. Over the past nine years, the team has partnered with area farms to provide evening twilight meetings to allow participants to experience different types of production and marketing practices utilized by local producers. 

May 13 | Cattle and Hog Production and Custom Processing
Legacy Meats LLC (Sumner)

June 17 | Largemouth Bass Fish Farm and Diverse Row Crops Farm
McLane Farms (Jonesboro)

August 19 | Intensive Vegetable Production, Processing, and Freezing
Sunnybrook Gardens (Carmi)