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15 Tried-and-True Native Plants for North American Flower Farmers

I have had this long-standing dream for my farm that has finally come to fruition this season: an all-native bouquet, including fillers, foliages and focal flowers. It took several seasons of curating a diverse collection of perennials and shrubs – culling some and adding others – to be able to make bouquets of only-native ingredients that […]

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Overwintering Dahlias in Zone 7/6b

Regenerative No-Dig System for Overwintering Dahlias in Zone 6b/7 Initial Planting of Dahlias Prepare new beds for planting using no-till methods such as cardboard and deep mulch and/or cover cropping and tarping. Amend soil according to soil test recommendations. Pay particular attention to pH and mineral content. Dahlias prefer a pH around 6.5; slightly acidic.

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No-Till Flower Farming: The First Step to Regenerative Flower Farming

I originally adopted the no-till approach to farming out of necessity.  Well, desperation, really.  An intensely rainy spring in 2018 kept me from being able to till the soil as usual and meant the only way to get transplants in the ground was to skip the tilling and try something new.  Thus began my foray

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Perennial Bulbs: Five Favorites for Cut Flower Production

[et_pb_section bb_built=\”1\”][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\”4_4\”][et_pb_text _builder_version=\”3.18.4\”] Recently I was remembering back to 2009 as I was going into my second growing season as a flower farmer.  I just had a tiny community garden plot that year that totaled a grand 1,682 square feet. But from that garden, I managed to grow enough flowers to go to two

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Putting a Flower Farm to Bed for Winter

[et_pb_section bb_built=\”1\”][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\”4_4\”][et_pb_text _builder_version=\”3.18.4\”] Here in October, we farmers all a little (or a lot) weary as the 2019 growing season winds down.  Every year in autumn, I go through quite the range of emotions. So much bittersweet relief, anxiety, anticipation, unease, antsy-ness, appreciation, and much more as the killing frost looms ever closer. My

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No-Till Flower Farming | Part 1

[et_pb_section bb_built=\”1\”][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\”4_4\”][et_pb_text _builder_version=\”3.18.4\”] No-till flower farming is a system of farming that (nearly, if not entirely) eliminates the turning over of the soil, be it with machinery or by hand. There are many reasons that may spur a farmer to decide to go with no-till farming practices.  Mine specifically were a notable decrease in

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