Slow Flowers Podcast

Slow Flowers Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 721: Designer-Grower Annika McIntosh of Hazel Designs and a bonus tour of Bellingham’s Field to Floral Market
June 18, 2025

https://youtu.be/E1exuo5iMOU A few weeks ago, I journeyed to Bellingham, a beautiful college town located close to the Washington-British Columbia border, where Annika McIntosh of Hazel Designs gr

Episode 720: Killing Frost Farm’s Jamie Rogers on solo flower farming in western Montana
June 11, 2025

https://youtu.be/9-oJEifK-u0?si=gW8_eyURbbSIEufO Growing specialty cut flowers for retail floral shops is a very specific niche and todays guest, Jamie Rogers of Killing Frost Farm in Helena, Mon

Episode 719: Weddings from the Garden, with urban farmer-florist Eleanor Blackford of Bloomwood Floral
June 04, 2025

https://youtu.be/BxZ3HiTn0UM?si=BtYeIDuXg2qjrW0n Visit an urban cutting garden with me today and meet long-time Slow Flowers member Eleanor Blackford, a wedding florist whose studio produces des

Episode 718: The Flower Farmers, with co-authors Robin Avni and Debra Prinzing; plus a bonus interview with Daniel Sparler, the book’s horticulture editor
May 28, 2025

https://youtu.be/BdnRayT0M2A?si=PQVfp6yMUSJD7n42 The Flower Farmers has been in the works for two years, as my co-author and the books creative director Robin Avni and I have poured our storytell

Episode 717: The future of Plant Masters, with legacy growers Leon and Carol Carrier, and their son Lee, next generation flower farmer now leading the family business
May 21, 2025

https://youtu.be/vw5w4ZwBuZU?si=YZLcTE7pJ5P5-zVP The Carrier family has been growing cut flowers and plants for more than 40 years, raising their three children with a love for flowers, and keepin

Episode 716: More than a side hustle, flower farming and floral design with Marly Surena-Llorens of Fenimore & Rutland
May 14, 2025

https://youtu.be/uGRgC8rjB_U?si=ucehNezGBXce9kuX Marly Surena-Llorens was born and raised in the U.S., but her Haitian mothers stories of tropical gardens filled with palms, crotons, and bougainv

Episode 715: From Farmers’ Market to Elevated Retail, with Abby Matson of Diddle and Zen and Julie Rémy of Fleuris Orchard and Blooms
May 07, 2025

https://youtu.be/P3SoClolo0g?si=_2euyh84isd_Ina4 It's a Red-Letter Week here at Slow Flowers, as my longtime collaborator, Robin Avni, and I celebrate the May 6th publication of The Flower Farmers

Episode 714: An inspiring conversation with Frances Palmer, ceramic artist, photographer, flower gardener, and author of Life With Flowers
April 30, 2025

https://youtu.be/2G-OjAkuVJY?si=lijpFSK8vvnkJW6L Renowned potter Frances Palmer has spent decades creating art that has enchanted designers and artists around the world. But there is another vibra

Episode 713: Sydney Fee of Fee, Fi, Fo Farm on how her sustainable hospitality and tourism background supports her farmer-florist enterprise
April 23, 2025

https://youtu.be/ILIsMQVb0xs?si=apa9xNGFjmMBb6gq Im always so inspired by the paths taken by our Slow Flowers Members to create their floral endeavors and todays guest has a fabulous back-story,

Episode 712: Growing and Designing with Hellebores. Meet our Hellebore Experts, Diane Szukovathy and Dennis Westphall of Jello Mold Farm and Rizaniño “Riz” Reyes of RHR Horticulture
April 16, 2025

https://youtu.be/02kn4dOI2tg?si=M1TUm5AjdtUwbr_z Just in time for gardening and farming season, Im thrilled to introduce you to The Flower Farmers,my new book co-authored with longtime collabora