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.
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Steps to Get Started
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 WorkshopsLisa’s Books:
• The Cut Flower Handbook
• Cool Flowers
• Vegetables Love FlowersJoin Lisa’s Online Flower Farming Community:
• The Flower Farmer Club -
Lisa's Blogs & Podcasts
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
• Top 5 Must-Have Flowers Every Farmer Should GrowPodcasts:
• Facing the Fears of Business
• Flower Farming MythbustersBlog:
• The Most Important Farming Tool: Your Mind
• The Truth About Success
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 Garden, by 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
- 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.
Tools of the Trade (Affiliate Links*)
- BIG Calendar-Journal, 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.