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Made in Croton

Finney Farm Fine Foods

One of our favorite local purveyors is Croton’s own Finney Farms Fine Foods. This local treasure began with when Vanessa Sudnik was faced with an her over-enthusiastic husband’s home garden. Out of desperation, she began making her Tomato Jam in order to use up all of the end-of-season fruit.

This delightful concoction can be described as an American chutney —it is lighter in body with a perfectly balanced flavor. Vanessa’s Tomato Jam pairs well with most cheeses, can be your secret ingredient as a sauce for fried chicken, and it takes any potato —roasted, mashed, fried— to the next level! It dresses up grilled cheese sandwiches as well as turkey like you wouldn’t believe.

This year, after many sleepless nights, Vanessa was determined to create an herbal tea that was more relaxing than chamomile and less potent than gin. Carefully crafted with organic chamomile, passionflower, hops, orange peel and mint, this tea —named Goodnight 2020— will relax you.

We are now offering a limited time gift box set with a few local goodies! Included in this gift box are Goodnight 2020, filter tea bags and a tea spoon, along with Catskill Provisions Raw Wildflower Honey.

To enjoy one’s tea, we need a Croton-on-Hudson mug. These mugs feature the original artwork of Jeff Thornton and come in two different designs —the Croton Dam and the Hudson River.

Lastly, two Finney Farm Fine Foods vanilla caramels and an air plant round out the box. This thoughtful gift is sure to please any local tea lover!

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New Products for the Holidays!

We have been super busy, gearing up for the giving season! We are receiving inventory nearly every other day and furiously trying to keep up with the unboxing!

In addition to our new #madeincroton items, we have scarves in dark floral winter prints and just recently received a new product — Meditation Spinner Rings with affirmations!

Take a look through our photos to see what’s new this week!

The Moon Hat

We have officially heard that anything with the NASA logo is played out for the next fifty years, or at least until humans land on Mars. Thankfully, we have got your heads covered!

Upper Village Blooms is proud to now carry the Moon Hat!

The Moon Hat, by Croton’s own Dan Cummings, is a remarkable science teaching aid as well as fashionable headgear.

In both beanie and baseball cap, crisp and bright embroidered moon phases wrap around the head. Each image is placed to create a precise 360˚ model of the Moon's orbit around the Earth. It’s both beautiful and functional.

The Moon Hat comes with instructions sewn inside so you'll always know the moon phase names, which order they go in so you can orient yourself to the moon’s location.

Forbes named the Moon Hat “Best Science Gift of 2018”! And this year, with the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, it will be an even more timely gift for your favorite budding astronaut or rocket designer. For adults and kids alike, the fleece cap is stretchy and warm, and the baseball hat is distinctively sharp looking

Remember, it is good to be curious!

Follow Dan’s Blog at Star in a Star. Star In A Star was founded to improve early astronomy education by anchoring it in the physical world of people, objects, and places.

Vanessa's Tomato Jam!

Upper Village Blooms is very excited to announce that we now carry Vanessa’s Tomato Jam! We are especially proud to announced that this is Made in Croton!

Out of desperation, Vanessa Sudnik began making her Tomato Jam in order to use up all of the end-of-season fruit in her husband’s home garden.

This delightful concoction can be described as an American chutney —it is lighter in body with a perfectly balanced flavor. Vanessa’s Tomato Jam pairs well with stinky, washed-rind cheeses like taleggio, but it’s also delicious served with tangy cheddar. Substitute it for sweet chili paste in recipes, serve it on lamb, pork, poultry and beef, and it takes any potato —roasted, mashed, fried— to the next level! It dresses up grilled cheese sandwiches as well as turkey like you wouldn’t believe.

It will be your new favorite addition to your charcuterie board or sandwich.

$13.99 for an 8 oz jar

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Stop by Second Mouse Cheese Shop in Pleasantville for accompanying delicious cheeses and charcuterie!

Little Light Pottery

Orit Daly —a Croton-on-Hudson potter— introduced herself to us last year, correctly thinking we’d be in love with her line of botanical pottery. She takes plants in various stages (and seasons) and then imprints them in her art. Obviously Upper Village Blooms was smitten with this idea! 

After spending some time together with Orit, we realized we had a lot in common. Specifically, we love plants and flowers and we ❤️ Croton!

We commissioned her to create bespoke art celebrating the natural beauty of Croton. After agreeing, she then asked —What if we make something useful as well? 

A fruitful and creatively collaborative partnership was born!


We now present our Riverwalk Collection, three designs of our beloved Croton Landing, available in mugs and trivets. The trivets can be used practically, and when not in use it hangs on the wall. 

Orit’s line drawings of the Riverwalk capture the stark beauty of the Hudson River in winter. The slats of the walkway, curves of the path winding along the riverbank, and the graphic beauty of nature all represent our particular claim to the Hudson. 

The method in which Orit captures her art on our mugs and trivets is called the Mishima Technique. It originated in East Asia in 9th century Korea, then it travelled to Japan where it got its name. This method of incising and inking images before the glaze is applied perfectly evokes the linear aspects of Riverwalk in winter, with narrow-leaved cattails, reeds, willows, oaks, and the Palisades.

Stop into Upper Village Blooms and admire Orit Daly’s work, then have a lovely stroll on our Riverwalk!

Orit Daly from Little Light Pottery presents her Riverwalk Collection exclusively at Upper Village Blooms.

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