In the US alone, there are 4 billion cut flower stems sold every year. The word flower is searched for on google 4,950,000,000 times and there are 280,000,000 results for Monets flower quote “I must have flowers always and always. Based on these sats and my own personal experience I’d say “we” MUST have flowers.  Someone is always going to be getting married and having babies. Funerals are a given and this goes for holidays and people falling in love and wanting to give flowers for important milestones in our lives as well. Besides who doesn’t want to feel their best or have meaning in their life?  Further, Flowers are a beautiful sacred…

Those first dahlia blooms that lined my windowsill after the passing of my son, created a need in me of really wanting to share the feelings of wellbeing and peace flowers brought me in the throes of my mother’s grief. I wanted to share their magic in any way that I could. This included farming cut-flowers commercially. I’ve taken the stage to speak about flower power. Have had a handful of years with sold-out dinner tours with long waiting lists, an annual flower school not to mention sold-out farmers market after, market, happy flower subscribers, and over-the-moon brides. Then covid hit right at the time many farms across the country were starting their…

I started with Dahlias, a row of sweetpeas, and some sunflowers, each one in remembrance of someone I love. At the time they were the only varieties I was going to farm. I thought how special to have a symbolic but simple business model. Well we all know how that worked out for me. I ended up diving deep into packing my brian as full as I could with all things flowers. Continuing my education by touring other farms, attending workshops and conferences. I hungered to try my hand at more. Oh boy, all that new beauty took my breath away. Hands on teaching by far is my preferred method of learning. So…