The convoluted pathway of the 7-ring labyrinth leads you around and around, past beds of zinnia, cosmos, amaranth, calendula, sunflowers, asters, bachelor’s buttons, larkspur, celosia, statice, cleome, snapdragons, strawflower, rudbeckias, marigold, necotiana, cock’s comb - to name but a few of our flowers - to the center ring where you can rest on a garden bench to admire the Hudson Valley vistas and the colorful and fragrant bouquet you have picked.

The flower labyrinth is the focal point of the garden, and the surrounding beds go out from it in concentric circles.  It must be quite a sight from above; no wonder the old bi-planes from the Rhinebeck Aerodrome pass over us all summer long.

Flower Shares

From mid-June through the hard frost, CSA members will have access to the flower labyrinth to pick their own bouquets, and experience the changing of the seasons through color and fragrance. Share pick up days are either on Tuesdays at Shoving Leopard Farm from 4-7 or Fridays at Starling Yards in Red Hook from
5-7.

Business Accounts ~ Bring some freshness and color to your work place with a weekly delivery of flowers.  You will receive one full bucket of mixed flowers, herbs, and decorative foliage to make into bouquets.

Shares still available for 2014

Wedding Flowers

Whether you want to pick-your-own flowers or pick up arrangements designed and created by us, we can help create the look you want; wild or elegant or rustic – just right. 

What we offer:

Pick-your-own wedding:  Come two or three days before your wedding with a pile of friends and family to pick pick pick to your heart’s content from the flower labyrinth.  We provide the snips and refreshments; you bring your flare for color and texture.  $350, plus $20 bucket rental if you cannot provide your own buckets.

Bulk Flowers: We will harvest the flowers for you according to your specified color-scheme, store them overnight in the cooler for you to pick up a day or two before your wedding for you to arrange.  $400 minimum, $60/bucket, plus $20 bucket rental if you cannot provide your own buckets.

À la carte: We will harvest your flowers, and design and create your arrangements according to your color scheme and desired look.   Arrangements should be picked up the day of or the day before the event.  $650 minimum, price per arrangement varies.

The Nuptial Bed: Let us grow an entire 60-foot garden bed of flowers for your wedding, and track your flowers’ progress from seed to vase via pictures on instagram, facebook or email.  We can plan how many of which flowers you will want, and design the garden bed accordingly.  Let us know by December, as the seed order and crop plan happens in the winter.  $250 pick-your-own; $350 we pick for you, plus $20 bucket rental if you cannot provide your own buckets.

To learn about having your wedding at Rokeby, visit www.eventsatrokeby.com.

Veggie Shares

Starling Yards in Red Hook is offering two CSA share sizes, Sustainer ($19/week) and Steward (($26/week), with pick-up locations at Shoving Leopard Farm on Tuesdays 4-7PM and at Starling Yards on Fridays 5-7PM. Shares include a balance of salad greens, root vegetables, cooking greens, culinary herbs and seasonal vegetables from June through October (22 weeks).

Sustainer share: $425, Steward: $575; Sign up by March 1st.

Sign up for BOTH a flower and a veggie share for $5 off each share.

Other Products

Eggs: Dozens and half-dozens of omnivorous, free ranging (aka athletic), and multicolored eggs are available year-round.  Our happy hens and rooster not only contribute outstanding eggs to our CSA community’s diet, but they also help increase the fertility of the farm and bring joy and entertainment to all.  Even to the hawks, the fox, and raccoons.

Maple syrup: The first harvest of the year is the sweet, sweet sap of the sugar maple, which we boil down “backyard” style in the sugar bush above the garden.  From February into March you can find us staring at boiling water, and sampling the rich amber nectar.  Available starting in March, while supplies last.

Garlic: SO much garlic.  After almost 10 years of trialing all sorts of different varieties of garlic, we have settled on the four that do brilliantly on our little farm:

German white – porcelain variety with classic garlic flavor, full bodied, and easy to peel;

Spanish Roja – a rocambole variety that is hot and spicy, a great keeper, and excellent roaster;

Brown Tempest – a purple stripe variety with purple-brown skin, easy to peel, medium spice, and great roaster.

and Unkrainian – a rocambole variety with medium heat, super duper raw and for pesto.

Photo credit: Vik Manchada

"After taking a lovely walk at Poet's Walk last fall we discovered Shoving Leopard Farms. It was the first week of October and the flowers were in bundles of lilac, fuchsia, lime, orange, lavender, gold, and crimson. We were getting married in one year's time, and so we could imagine these very flowers on the tables and around our loved ones. After speaking with Marina, I was sure that instead of merely ordering flowers from a shop, that this was the way we wanted to go--to pick and arrange our own flowers and to use the flower maze at Shoving Leopard. Just like food tastes better when you see it lovingly prepared, we figured the flowers would be so much more appreciated if we took part in the experience and what an experience it was! It was honestly our favorite part of all the wedding activities...both families and a whole lot of man friends came out to the farm to first pick and then arrange over 80 bouquets, each one different and wonderful! My mom even made my bridal bouquet. The flower labyrinth was just magical and everyone was swept up in the occasion to be creative and together. Thank you to Marina, the flowers, the bees, the soil, sun, and rain!"

Alina and Brad, 2013