Flower Farming Business: Starting, Sustaining, and Surviving - Week 3

[@amandamartin7618]

You are such a joy to listen to! It’s almost like you’re a flower farm business therapist 😂 Always so reassuring

[@KM-rw3er]

Thank you for these videos! There’s a lot of untried voices that are speaking into this topic. Truly, thank you for sharing your years of experience with flower farming! Much appreciated.

[@hanginwithhippiecowboy7978]

Excellent series and information! Thank you for sharing! :-)

[@gildamolinar5155]

I could listen to you all day. You have the most informative content regarding flowers. Thank you!

[@karac.a.]

Thank you for doing this series! You're the best flower farming teacher I've heard. 🌻

[@karenschwartz5209]

Thank you for all the information.

[@KyLinda]

lol.. I find myself hanging on every word. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! you are a treasure ..

[@dc0145a]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@MichelleBeahm]

I love the “employees” goal .. because my weird goal for doing this is to have starter jobs for my girls and their 4H buddies and cousins

[@lisacook270]

I am starting my cut flower business and was struggling with starting out small. So glad I found you! Can’t wait to take your course this fall!

[@karac.a.]

I hope your farm does well! ☺️🌻🌷

[@lisacook270]

Thank you! I know the value of great mentors. The quality of business depends on it! That is why I am looking for the best and can’t wait to learn all I can and create great friendships along the way

[@karac.a.]

@@lisacook270 yes! Flower power! 😆 I hear joining the ascfg (association of specialty cut flower growers) is a great way to connect with other flower farmers. Lisa speaks at a lot of their conventions. 🌻

[@jamieholland-smith6946]

Thank you for the info. I want to just grow Cannas but I do want to make money. Glad I watched this before I started!

[@plantsim]

I think with beautiful huge plants like that which multiply, selling both the bulbs and the flowers would be awesome. I think lots of us want to source our plants from each other not from wholesalers far away.

[@traceyrigney8742]

Thank you 😊

[@CarolineJensen]

I totally understand watching a pretty cover crop going under!

[@CarolineJensen]

So good...thank you so much!

[@ElderandOakFarm]

Great tips! I'm starting a cut-flower farm next spring!

[@davidbahm8972]

Can I watch What it takes to be a flower farmer?

[@lisafeck1537]

I have been wondering if you were able to keep a landscape at least early in your business. There is no way I can do both now, it's just not possible for me. Still haven't planted anything. Having trouble establishing how I'm going to build my beds, so, if I miss the spring season, I miss it. I am working on it, went from, I need that Rainflo bed maker, to I need a pull behind a tractor tiller, then find a neighbor to pull it. I haven't bought one, and I haven't secured a neighbor, and I'm thinking, that plan is a big mistake, relying on someone else to be available everytime I need them. Now I'm thinking, find a great tiller, powerful, with a potato hiller/mounder attachment, do fewer beds then I wanted. Buy no plugs, start w/ the seeds I have. There is still plenty of equipment I need for starting seeds, lights, shelves, heat mats, the blocking mix, row cover, If I use silage tarps strategically, and sell/give samples to the florests, I can try to build my business with great flowers and filler, and plan way ahead for more beds next spring. That is where I am, for the moment, unless the farm fairy decides to drop off a tractor w/a tiller, maybe throw in a 4wd vehicle I can drive and pull a small trailer around my property, and a cooler, and a delivery truck, and a shed to store my supplies in, and and and. I am not deterred, I still want to be a cut flower farmer. Helps to write it out. Thank you Lisa Ziegler, your content is one of a kind. Keep talking to us about the reality of flower farming, I want to hear it, the cold hard truth, farming glasses on, gardening glasses off.