Slow Flowers Podcast

Slow Flowers Podcast


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Episode 581: Meet Laura Gonzalez of Swallows Secret Garden, a gardener-florist and land steward in Santa Cruz, California
October 26, 2022

https://youtu.be/1xh0i3Von2A I met today's guest, Laura Gonzalez, at the 2021 Slow Flowers Summit, which took place in the SF Bay Area at Filoli Historic House and Gardens. Swallows Secret Gard

Episode 580V: High desert flower farming with Trisha Starkey of Petals and Pages
October 19, 2022

https://youtu.be/Jnq09P0fuPk This week, we meet another inspiring Slow Flowers member, a farmer-florist whose Fernley, Nevada, enterprise is inspiring, considering some of the challenging growing

Episode 579: Flower farming with your sister, with Becky Osborne and Kate Munno of Connecticut’s Becky at Appleberry Farm
October 12, 2022

https://youtu.be/3KvuYwoLy18 Today, I want to introduce you to the women behind Becky at Appleberry Farm, Becky Osborne and Kate Munno. Becky at Appleberry Farm is based in Sandy Hook, Connecticut

Episode 578: Accidental flower farmers share their roots, with Tracy Yang and Nick Songsangcharntara of JARN Co. 
October 05, 2022

https://youtu.be/-ZKewIAbiCU Tracy Yang and Nick Songsangcharntara of JARN Co. Flower Farm Today, you're invited to join me on a quick visit to JARN Co., a 2nd year flower farm based in Monroe, Was

Episode 577: Building a home-based cut flower business with Backyard Blooms’ Janet Kramka
September 28, 2022

https://youtu.be/AIrGJUfpHuk You're in for a treat today with my conversation featuring Janet Kramka of Backyard Blooms, based in Trumbull, Connecticut. In August, Janet and I participated in a we

Episode 576: Georgia Flower Farm Visit with Rita and Mike Williams of WilMor Farms
September 21, 2022

https://youtu.be/lDLejfwkT5U Today's episode has been a long time coming. I first met Rita and Mike Williams, owners of WilMor Farms Flowers based in Metter, Georgia, when the Lowcountry Flower Gr

Episode 575: The Floral Coach’s Amy Balsters shares her bouquet-making philosophy and inspiring business model
September 14, 2022

I first met Slow Flowers member Amy Balsters in 2018 when she was a wedding and event florist operating as Amy Nicole Floral. We both attended a floral conference and during a few days together, we ma

Episode 574: Fourth-Year Flower Farmer, a virtual tour and visit with Jenny Chantz of Merritt Meadow Flower Farm in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
September 07, 2022

I’m excited to share today’s show with you for a number of reasons. My guest is farmer-florist Jenny Chantz of Merritt Meadows Flower Farm. Recently, we recorded this conversation about her farm, her

Episode 573: The 50 Mile Bouquet Series with Charles & Bethany Little of Charles Little & Co.
August 31, 2022

If you’ve been following along for a while, you have noticed that 2022 is the 10-year celebration of the publication of The 50 Mile Bouquet, a book that, to be honest, started me along the journey tha

Episode 572: Joseph Massie returns the Slow Flowers Podcast to unveil The Flower School, his new beautiful and useful new design book
August 24, 2022

I’m thrilled today to welcome Joseph Massie back to the Slow Flowers Podcast. I wanted to share the great news of the arrival of Joseph’s first book, The Flower School, which has a subtitle: “the prin