Course Summary
Thriving Farmer Flower Summit
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Introduction
Welcome to the Flower Summit!
About Your Host - Michael Kilpatrick
Day One - Why Flowers?
Dave Dowling - The Cut Flower Industry: Then and Now
Jessica Hall - Growing Your Flower Dream in Real Life
Mike & Polly Hutchison - Flower Farming and Retail: A New Adventure
Heidi Daniels - Why People Love Flowers: Insights from a Retail Greenhouse Grower
Stacey Murphy - Adding Flowers to Your Garden
Dr. Barbara Utendorf - Benefits of Flowers for Us and Our Ecosystem
Logan Keister - Teas, Tinctures, Meads, and More: An Introduction to Medicinal and Culinary Flowers
Day Two - Flower Growing Tips and Techniques
Greg Peterson - Building Healthy Soil
Jennifer WIdowski - Micro Flower Farming: Starting small to see what works for you
Sarah Funk - Successful Succession Planting: Planning for both supply AND sanity
Erik Brimstad and Beth Satterwhite - Fitting Flowers into Your Field: When flowers are just one part of your flower operation
Christy Ralphs - Applying Lean Principles to Flower Farming
Hillary Alger and Joy Longfellow - Johnny's Seeds Overwinter Cut Flower Trial Results
Tania Cubberly - Flowering in the Tunnel
Christina Ford - Managing an Efficient Harvest
Betsy Busche - Making Profitable Market Bouqets
Melissa Smith - Growing Dahlias in Hot Climates
Maggie Sheehan - Working with and Blooming in Your Climate
Day Three - Build A Flower Business
Roz Chandler - The Growth of a Flower Business: Stories from the FIeld Gate
Jessica Hall - Building A Strong Family Farm
Julie Treanor - Building A Brand for Your Business
Becky Sadlowski - Walking As Yourself: Marketing Based on Who You Are and What You Value
Don Lareau - Marketing and Scaleability of Organic Flower Farming
Gretel and Steve Adams - Scaling Up Your Flower Operation: Standardizing systems and setting up for success
Roger & Mary Winstead - Growing and Selling Edible Flowers
Shannon Allen - Providing a Profitable Flower CSA
Lyndsay Biehl - Setting Up Your U-Pick Operation
Lori Rice - Photographing Your Flowers to the Fullest
Lennie Larkin - Tracking Profitability on Dahlia Production
John Reinwald - Advice every flower farmer needs to know about growing a following on Instagram
Molly Edgington - Revenue from RVers: Finding a new income stream for your flower farm