Want to Be a Flower Farmer?

Are you wondering if flower farming is right for you, or are you in the first years of starting your flower business?

A Note From Lisa:

It all began in 1998 when I discovered that cut-flower farming was a career possibility. 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…Learn more.

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 instructional materials.
Online Courses:
– Online Flower Farming & Business Schools
– Online Flower Workshops
Lisa’s Books:
– The Cut Flower Handbook
– Cool Flowers
– Vegetables Love Flowers
Join Lisa’s Online Flower Farming Community:
– TGW Club
Steps to Get Started
Video Series:
– What it Takes to be a Flower Farmer
– How Profitable is Flower Farming? (the truth from a farmer)
– Flower Farming Business: Starting, Sustaining, and Surviving
Podcasts:
– Facing the Fears of Business
– Flower Farming Mythbusters
Video Blogs:
– How Profitable is Flower Farming? (the truth from a farmer)
– Top 5 Must-Have Flowers Every Farmer Should Grow
Blog:
–The Most Important Farming Tool: Your Mind
Lisa's Soil Blocking Blogs & Podcasts

Books (Affiliate Links*)

Designing with Dried Flowers: Creating Everlasting Arrangements by Hannah Rose Rivers Muller
Flower Farming for Profit: The Complete Guide to Growing a Successful Cut Flower Business by Lennie Larkin
The New Organic Grower, A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener by Eliot Coleman
The Vegetable Gardening Book: Your complete guide to growing an edible organic garden from seed to harvest by Joe Lamp’l
The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers by Lynn Byczynski
Good Bug Bad Bug: Who’s Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically by Jessica Walliser
Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Gardenby Jessica Walliser
The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife by Nancy Lawson
Wildscape:Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and other Sensory Wonders of Natureby Nancy Lawson
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful by Amy Stewart

Special Deals:

If you are growing cut flowers and don’t have Allan Armitage’s books, now is the time! They should be in every farmer’s library. Visit his bookstore and use the code ‘Lisa’ for free shipping. (U.S. domestic orders only).

Tools of the Trade (Affiliate Links*)

AT-A-GLANCE Yearly Wall Calendar, 20″ x 30″, Extra Large, Spiral Bound, Monthly
2-Quart (8 cups) Plastic Measuring Cup
Valent USA Dipel Pro DF Biological Insecticide BT 54%, 1lb bag
Irrigation suppliers: DripWorks
Transforms any well-insulated room into a walk-in cooler with CoolBot. Use this link for $25 off.

*As an Amazon Affiliate, The Gardener’s Workshop may earn a small commission if you purchase using these links within a certain timeframe. This commission is paid by Amazon at no additional cost to you.

The Gardener's Workshop Supports the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers

Want to Be a Flower Farmer?

Books (Affiliate Links*)

Tools of the Trade (Affiliate Links*)

Transforms any well-insulated room into a walk-in cooler with CoolBot. Use this link for $25 off.