Grow beauty. Harvest flavor. Bring the garden to your table.
Flowers can do so much more than fill a vase.
They can add color to a summer salad, flavor homemade butter, dress up a glass of lemonade, become a beautiful finishing salt, or turn something as simple as an ice cube into something special.
Harvest & Home: Edible Flowers — From Garden to Table is an 18-page digital guide created from our Harvest & Home workshop at Wendland Family Farm.
Designed to make edible flowers feel approachable, this guide will help you confidently identify, harvest, prepare, store, and use edible flowers while discovering simple ways to bring them from the garden into your everyday kitchen.
Inside the Guide
You'll begin with the basics of edible flowers, including how to choose flowers safely, what to look for before eating any bloom, and why proper identification and growing practices matter.
Then you'll meet some of our favorite edible flowers and learn about their unique flavors and everyday uses, including:
Nasturtiums • Violas • Calendula • Bachelor Buttons • Bee Balm • Chamomile • Lavender • Chive Blossoms • Sunflower Petals
From peppery nasturtiums and delicate violas to floral lavender and onion-flavored chive blossoms, you'll discover just how different—and useful—edible flowers can be.
Harvest With Confidence
Beautiful food starts with a good harvest.
Learn when to harvest edible flowers for the best flavor and freshness, which blooms to choose, how to handle delicate petals, and why leaving flowers behind for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators matters.
You'll also learn how to properly clean and store your harvest so those beautiful blooms stay fresh until you're ready to use them.
Know What NOT to Eat
Not every beautiful flower belongs on the dinner table.
The guide includes an important Flowers to Avoid section covering common poisonous flowers and reminders for safely identifying flowers before consuming them.
Because when it comes to edible flowers:
When in doubt, leave it out.
Bring the Garden to the Table
This is where the fun begins.
You'll discover simple ways to use edible flowers to:
Add color to salads, grain bowls and charcuterie boards Flavor butter, finishing salt and other kitchen staples Create beautiful lemonades, teas, mocktails and sparkling drinks Decorate cakes, cookies and other desserts Freeze flowers into gorgeous floral ice cubes Preserve petals for later use Create homemade gifts straight from the garden
And you don't need complicated recipes or special equipment to begin.
Recipes & Projects Included
Put what you've learned into practice with simple recipes and ideas you can recreate at home, including:
Edible Flower Finishing Salt Flower Butter Flower Ice Cubes Garden Salad with Edible Flowers Floral Lemonade
You'll also find inspiration for homemade garden gifts including floral sugar, tea blends, infused honey, flower salt and more.
Plan Your Own Edible Flower Garden
The guide includes a My Garden Plan page where you can begin turning inspiration into something you actually grow.
Record the flowers you want to plant, recipes you'd like to try, your favorite edible flowers, and where they'll grow in your garden.
Whether you have a large garden, raised beds, or just enough room for a few plants, you can start small.
More Than Pretty Flowers
Harvest & Home is about looking at what we grow a little differently.
It's learning that the flowers attracting pollinators to your garden can also become part of the meals you share. It's turning something you've grown with your own hands into a beautiful addition to the table. And it's finding simple ways to make everyday moments feel a little more special.
Grow it. Harvest it. Share it. Enjoy it.
Digital Product Details
18-page digital guide Instant digital download PDF format Created by Wendland Family Farm Based on our Harvest & Home workshop and real farm experience Includes recipes, practical tips and a garden planning page
Your digital purchase also includes access to the accompanying Printing Guide, Thank You Note, FAQs, and License + Terms documents.
This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.