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The Cool-Season Flower Chronicles Series

Lisa's five-week video series guides gardeners through the rewarding process of growing cold-season hardy annuals. ...
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The Magic and Beauty of Farm Tours

This summer, Lisa is hosting an open garden and warehouse day on Saturday, June 28th, 2025.  If you have the opportunity to visit, it will be one ...
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Cover Crops For Small Farms & Gardens

The benefits of cover cropping far outweigh the head scratching that goes into trying to figure out how to work them into a small farm crop rotati...
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  • Download the Kajabi Online Course & Community App

    On March 18th, 2026, the "Learn" phone app will no longer be available. We're moving back to Kajabi's main phone app. They've made huge improvements to their app in the...

  • Ellen Frost Visits for Open Farm Day

    Republished with permission from author Ellen Frost. I first met Lisa Mason Ziegler of The Gardener's Workshop after a presentation I made at the ASCFG national conference. I definitely knew who she was...

  • Benefits of Buckwheat: Organic matter, habitat,...

    A great mid-summer addition to the garden is buckwheat. There is plenty of time left in the growing season to take advantage of its many benefits and it is easy...

  • How to make the most of your cut-flower bounty!

    We are known on the local cut-flower scene for our near-perfect blossoms and how long they last in the vase. While this may have happened by chance at the beginning...

  • You can grow Sweet Peas!

    Sweet Peas are perhaps the sweetest flower we grow. Once a customer pulls a “sweetie bouquet” to their nose—the respond is the same “my grandma used to grow these” or...

  • Steve & Lisa's Love Story: 2025 Edition

    We love working together on the farm! Hands down our favorite. The love, respect, and devotion that Steve and I share continue to gain depth and width as we move...

  • Using Floating Row Covers

    I am often asked how I use row covers on my farm. Below are the reasons to use, how to use, and when to remove. In all installation during warm-to-hot...

  • The Truth About Success

    Let’s just cut to the punchline, shall we? The day-to-day living with a successful business is pretty much the same as when I started flower farming 27 years ago: sheer...

  • Seed Starting: The Pain and the Triumph

    Small soil blocks with snapdragon seedlings ready to go to the garden. Most gardeners confess that they’ve always wanted to start seeds. Some are too scared to even give it...

  • FAQ: Seed Starting with Soil Blocking

    I have been soil blocking since the beginning of my flower farming career in 1998. When I discovered soil blocking in Eliot Coleman's book  The New Organic Grower  it solved...

  • The Cool-Season Flower Chronicles Series

    Lisa's five-week video series guides gardeners through the rewarding process of growing cold-season hardy annuals. Listen to each week’s videos as a podcast HERE. Week 1: The Cool Flower Concept...

  • Growing Great Zinnias

    The first cuts of the season for the Benary’s Giants. Growing great zinnias is easy. Hands down zinnias are the favorite garden flower for many. As a flower farmer, it...

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I write about organic gardening, flower farming, and business. What started out as a family garden back in 1996 has grown into so much more! I never imagined that it would lead to an urban commercial farm, an online garden shop, becoming an author, traveling the country teaching, and now online courses!
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