Lisa’s School Content
Class 1 – Starting and Sustaining a Business
Session 1 – Clearing Time to Start and Run a Business
Session 2 – The Business
Session 3 – Money Matters
Session 4 – Getting Legal & Professional
Session 5 – Taking Stock of What You Have
Session 6 – Getting Organized
Session 7 – Life Balance
Session 8 – Business Stumpers
Bonus Content
Class 2 – Building and Managing the Working Garden
Session 1 – Working Garden Design
Session 2 – Soil Building and Management
Session 3 – Making Beds
Session 4 – Flower Farming Tools
Session 5 – Cover Cropping
Session 6 – Weed & Pest Concerns
Bonus Content
Class 3 – Selling What you Grow
Session 1 – Potential Customers
Session 2 – Deep Dive on Specific Customer Types
Session 3 – Customer Service
Session 4 – Marketing
Session 5 – Making Bouquets
Bonus Content
Class 4 – What to Grow
Session 1 – Seasonal Growing Outdoors
Session 2 – Producing Consistently
Session 3 – Growing Warm-Season Annuals
Session 4 – Growing Cool-Season Annuals
Session 5 – The Supportive Landscape
Session 6A – My Top Warm-Season Annuals
Session 6B – My Top Cool-Season Annuals
Session 7 – Other Crops
Bonus Content
Class 5 – Starting Seeds
Session 1 – Do I Start Seeds or Purchase Plants?
Session 2A – How to Start and Grow Transplants Indoors
Session 2B – Soil Blocking
Session 3 – How to Plant Seeds in the Garden
Session 4 – Rules of Commercial Seed Starting
Session 5 – Making a Germination Chamber
Session 6 – The Seed Starting Calendar
Bonus Content
Class 6 – Harvesting and Conditioning Cut Flowers
Session 1 – The Commercial Harvesters Toolbox
Session 2 – Harvesting Practices
Session 3 – Conditioning Steps and Products
Session 4a – Where to Make the Cut
Session 4b – Harvest Tips Tender Annuals
Session 4c – Harvest Tips Hardy Annuals
Bonus Content
Kim Manning Wands (store manager) –
Lisa’s course lays the foundation for flower farming and then Dave’s course makes it explode with knowledge! I learned so much and am presently trying new plants and flowers that I discovered through his course. What a great team these guys make!! Highly recommend this class!!!
Shelia Ball Walls (store manager) –
I took both classes this past year. I was afraid I might be wasting my money. I have been a home gardener for 25 years and know a lot about flowers and plants and growing conditions in the landscape. However, I learned quickly that is not the same as flower Farming! Lisa and Dave both have a wealth of knowledge that have been extremely helpful to me to get started in cut flower production. I also love that I can go back and listen to different parts of a course to refresh my memory! You will learn to work smarter and plan better from these courses!