Today’s episode features a takeover of our popular weekly live Q&A session on Instagram, normally called Ask a Flower Farmer. In this episode we instead did an Ask a Florist session with guest host Ellen Frost of Local Color Flowers in Baltimore, MD. Ellen is not a flower farmer, but a year-round designer who creates exclusively with flowers and foliage purchased from local growers. She is also one of our course instructors here at The Gardener’s Workshop. In this Q&A Ellen fielded questions about floral design, the different flowers she uses, and some great business questions too.
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Instagram: Ellen Frost Flowers
Instagram: Local Color Flowers
Florist School Online: Growing Your Business with Local Flower Sourcing
On-Demand Mini-Workshop: Preparing to Sell to Florists
Jonathan & Megan Leiss’ course: The No-Till Micro-Scale Flower Farm
The Gardener’s Workshop on Instagram
Postharvest Handling book in the ASCFG bookstore
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The Field and Garden Podcast is produced by Lisa Mason Ziegler, award-winning author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers, owner of The Gardener’s Workshop, Flower Farming School Online, and the publisher of Farmer-Florist School Online and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa’s Story and connect with Lisa on social media!
