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 farmers markets a week […]
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The soil in hoop houses typically gets very depleted over many years of crop production and revitalizing hoop house soils becomes a necessary focus as a farm matures. There are two unheated hoop houses at Love ‘n Fresh Flowers, both Gothic-style and measuring 24’ x 48’, giving us a little over 2,300 square feet under
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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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