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The Most Important Farming Tool: Your Mind
At the end of each season on our farm, I realize that the most important tool isn’t my latest gadget or the new deer fence we installed this summer. Nor...
Flower Farming Basics
Learning never ends. As I write this post, we just experienced early low temperatures of 34-36 degrees at the end of September. This weather toasted our last flowers and brought...
Indoor Flower Seed Starting Easy Guide: Start t...
I built my flower farm on the concept of starting seeds in soil blocks. This is a traditional European method of starting lots of seeds in a tiny space. It’s...
Indoor Seed Starting: Set Yourself up for Success
How do you start a plant from seed indoors? Have you checked out Seed Talk? This new TGW Field & Garden podcast series hosted by Lisa along with TGW’s Seed...
Flower Farming 101: Top 5 Tips for Cool Flowers...
Tip #1: Know Your Frost DatesIdentify not only your hardiness zone, but also your historic average first and last frost dates. Your hardiness zone can only tell you which flowers...
Top 5 Must-Have Flowers Every Farmer Should Grow
During our high-production years, we sold our cut flowers to florists, grocery stores, farmers markets, and in subscriptions. Want to know what our all-time favorite must-have flowers are? The ones...