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Top 5 Must-Have Flowers Every Farmer Should Grow

July 25, 2022Lisa Mason Ziegler

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...

Best Flowers To Grow For Summer Bouquets

July 11, 2022Anne Gettys Morgan

Bouquet Builders that Beat the Heat We’ve just passed the longest day of the year – Summer Solstice. Here in western North Carolina the heat is on from now until...

5 Best Books for Starting a Cut-Flower Farm

June 28, 2022Lisa Mason Ziegler

Back before I was a flower farmer, when I was still just a “gardener gone wild” as I like to say, there weren’t very many learning resources available. I started...

Succession Plant Your Way to Flower Farming Suc...

June 6, 2022Anne Gettys Morgan

In 2018, I had the incredible opportunity to attend Lisa’s on-farm Flower Farmer Boot Camp to learn what it takes to become a successful flower farmer. Those two days would...

How Profitable is Flower Farming? (the truth fr...

May 24, 2022Lisa Mason Ziegler

Can you really make money growing and selling cut-flowers? You may have heard that cut-flowers are one of the most profitable specialty crops you can grow. But how profitable is...

Basil for the Big Win!

May 16, 2022Anne Gettys Morgan

Everyone loves it, we plant tons of it all summer long and we sell every single stem of it! From our florists and wedding designers to our grocery store clients...