Bowker Creek Flower Farm
Our flower farm is nestled right in the centre of Victoria, BC, Canada.
We live and work on the farm in a little creekside garden paradise on neighbouring properties, surrounded by the city. We are neighbours on a mission to bring beautiful flowers and veggie-gardening into the city, teaching others to do the same.
Our farmstand offers fresh food and flowers, seedlings and homestead goodness. Our flowers and veggies are offered thought a CSA model, and we provide custom DIY buckets for events and weddings.
Our crew also offers gardening services, beautifying the gardens of our neighbours and clients with our seed-grown plants and eye for detail.
We focus on soil-health to provide our own tiny ecosystem with a good start. Our gardens are healthy, biodiverse and low-till, allowing nature a big role. We amend with natural materials and human-scale hard work. We provide education and share our skills and knowledge with seasonal workshops and garden tours.
Our collection of seeds, dahlia tubers and seedlings are produced right here on our farm here on Vancouver Island to be grown on in your home gardens.
The view is always open at 1841 Haultain Street. Come and take a peek!
Land Acknowledgment
We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose unceded traditional territory and water our farm stands and provides. We also honour the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue now, and whose knowledge of this place is immeasurable.
This land is the setting for many human stories, ours included. We are humbled by the opportunity to steward this place.
Renée Sala: Bio
As a lifetime artist, maker and entrepreneur, I keep following my path wherever it seems to lead me, which is typically somewhere unusual. I’ve always been connected to the community through my other creative ventures (even as a kid) and I’m so excited to re-connect in a different way…with flowers!
I was born in Manitoba, and spent my teens up-island in Chemainus BC scooping ice cream for tourists. I spent my 20s travelling all over the world, living and working in England, Australia and Korea and seeing amazing things. I’ve been in Victoria since 2004, when I returned from abroad to attend art school and I am firmly planted here along with my family and friends. And my child. And plants. And cats.
After graduating the Visual Arts Program from Camosun in 2006, I became a professional potter, (following in my mother’s footsteps) and sold my work at many local stores and markets.
I then started my amazing little art school called Crafty in 2009. I obtained BC Arts Council grants and facilitated over 20 large school-wide art installations around the city, offered countless community workshops & camps, plus weekly neighbourhood classes in my home studio. I’ve worked with thousands of local kids and made many life-long connections with students and their families. In 2018 I was awarded a Community Leadership Award from the Victoria Foundation for my work procuring grants and delivering art programs to schools.
Also in 2018, I became the supervisor of the pottery studio at the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, working with many fabulous artists and instructors to bring high-quality ceramics programs to the community. I was in this position throughout Covid, helping to keep community arts programming going while so much was closed. We even managed to engage thousands of locked-down community members in an incredible collaborative art project called “Hearts Together’ which is permanently on display at the Cedar Hill Arts & Rec Centre.
Life changed and I needed to work at home, so…I started a flower farm! Please head to the blog to find out more, but it’s completely changed my trajectory into something beautiful.
I’m a homesteader at heart and you can find me baking sourdough, listening to podcasts, growing plants, building random things in the yard, and generally just makings things more beautiful.
I appreciate you taking the time to read my story.
Now let’s get growing!
