Well-marketed cut flowers can net existing farms an increase in income per acre compared to traditional vegetables, according to Robin Trott, a seasoned Extension educator at the University of ...
ELMORE - When Donna Sandwisch wanted fresh flowers to match her fall décor, she stopped by The Cut Flower Farm at Bench’s, the newest attraction at Benchmore Farms in Elmore. The Cut Flower Farm ...
Five years ago, the U.S. Census of Agriculture estimated that the number of Virginia cut flower producers had jumped from 117 in 2007 to 227 in 2012. Even more producers have entered the field since ...
With a PhD in political science, Mary Beth McConahey never thought she’d end up as a commercial flower grower. And when she did become a flower grower, she thought the growing itself would be the ...
STAUNTON — Bruno the dog barrels through the fields of flowers just to plop down on a patch of grass and roll on his back waiting for belly rubs. Erin Wright has found her own oasis in a little pocket ...
Cross Street Flower Farm is a boutique flower farm growing specialty cut and heirloom flowers. Owner and head farmer Nikki Bartley picks mahogany splendor hibiscus ...
FAIRFIELD — Illinois Extension educators are teaming up with Blessed Blooms Flower Farm & Market in Fairfield, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois Summer Twilight Series to share information about cut ...
EMILY -- It’s in a small hayfield hugging a picturesque country road -- a secret garden obscured by a grove of trees. Rows of petite cosmos, feathery amaranth, wispy zinnias and stately gold and ...
Molly Gaeckle started her flower farm sowing just a few rows in the backyard garden of a small rental house in Minneapolis. Eight years later, her cut flower operation, Northerly Flora, has grown to ...