Want to be a flower farmer?
Wondering if flower farming is for you or in the first years of getting your business started? Watch Lisa’s free series Flower Farming Business: Starting, Sustaining, and Surviving, and request Lisa’s webinar, “What it Takes to be a Flower Farmer” here.
Learn more about growing flowers as a cash crop, starting and managing a flower farming business, expanding what you grow, plus the services you can offer with our Online Courses. Lisa has created and produced for other flower-based industry leader experts online courses to help build professional flower farming businesses. Learn more here.
A Note from Lisa:
I was a novice gardener back in 1997 when I discovered that cut-flower farming was a career possibility. I had never dreamed I could become a flower farmer. Besides not knowing anything about farming, I lived in the middle of the city and only had a large yard. Looking back now, what appeared as odds stacked against me, actually became a big part of my flower-farming-business success story...read more.
Steps to get started:
- Watch the documentary Local Flowers, Local Farmers
- Watch the video below about why to join ASCFG
- Read the books listed below
- Listen to Lisa’s podcast: Field & Garden
Read:
The Flower Farmer by Lynn Bycinski
Cool Flowers by Lisa Mason Ziegler
Local Color by Frank and Pamela Arnosky
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