Flowers and Grapes celebrates the seasonal beauty of the wine country of Northern California while inspiring a pursuit of beauty in garden, home, and daily life.
On left: Spring at Bartholomew Winery in Sonoma.
Sonoma Garden Park now a public space of lush grounds, orchards, gardens and public gathering places in Sonoma, California.
Flowers & Grapes is an indie magazine for gardeners, flower fanatics, wine country enthusiasts, and nature lovers of Northern California. It is a beautiful publication that inspires you to muse on the beauty of the seasons and the region as well as encouraging you get out and explore the wine county. Published quarterly in spring, summer, fall, and winter, each issue is packed with natural beauty and regional knowledge to inspire gardening, sustainability, entertaining, travel and living a rich life in Northern California.
Our Mission is to inspire beauty in daily life while supporting the things we care about:
nature and environment
local agriculture and business
arts and community
ad-free journalism
Our new unique vision for a locally published, artful, and ad-free magazine relies on contributions from our online community. You’ll find no paid ads on our pages. So, we rely only on contributions from our readers to offer this magazine to you online for free. We invite our fans to support us by donating so that we can continue to publish this new artful magazine that captures the unique beauty of the wine country. Help us continue grow our unique community that adores the natural landscape of the region and also appreciates its unique diversity of local business, agriculture, and community. Your generous donations help us share this incredible beauty with not only our local communities and the greater Bay Area, but also with our national and international audiences. Join our community!
“Flowers and Grapes shares the poetry I discovered during lockdown. Seeing the world through nature, landscape, and the region every day for over a year nourished my creativity and hope. Hope for new beginnings and a deeper appreciation for all the little things in life. As we all move forward together from the Covid19 pandemic, find poetry in the seasons, gardens, your community and in life.
On left: Maya with her sidekick Poppy, a mini cockapoo at The Happy Dahlia Farm in Petaluma.
Founder + Publisher Maya Bartolf is an avid gardener, floral designer, stylist/photographer, and garden writer. A lifelong flower fanatic, educator, and art curator, Maya has been exploring the unique intersection of flower growing, floral design, art, and life in the wine country for over 20 years.
Flowers and Grapes was launched during lockdown of Covid19 pandemic. “I had lost my job in education tech and turned to my garden and the region for daily inspiration and a sense of purpose” Maya reflected. With encouragement from her garden writing and blogger community, she returned to sharing the beauty of her garden and region. “Seeing the world through nature, landscape, and the region that I spent every day in for over a year nourished my creativity and hope. Hope for new beginnings and a deeper appreciation for all the little things in life.” Flowers and Grapes celebrates this poetry.
In 2013, Maya launched Today’s Bouquet, a boutique sustainable floral design studio along with a retail venture Pop-Up Flower Shop by Today's Bouquet. Today's Bouquet. Today’s Bouquet along with her garden blog led the way in a local field to vase movement with each romantic garden-style arrangement of seasonal flowers grown locally in her heirloom garden and locally on farms in Northern California. Poppy is her cuddly Cockapoo and sidekick often in the garden bombing photoshoots! You can follow Poppy in the Garden on Pinterest.
When not in her garden or exploring the wine country, Maya is also an educational technology consultant and new media art curator in XR: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and 360 Immersive Storytelling.
Maya is delighted to accept any inquiries on gardening, floral design, styling, creative collaboration or speaking engagements.
Contact: info@flowersandgrapes.com
Garden Blogger Flings are where Maya found an extraordinary community that nourished her gardening spirit and also encouraged her writing adventures!
