Small flower farm layout

Enjoy bouquets every week with your own cut flower garden. These gardens can be small or large and filled with your favorite flowers.

My first year as a cut flower grower was full of lessons learnt. Looking back on my journey, I can reflect on the five biggest mistakes and how I will change going forward into the next growing seasons.

Cut flowers are one of the highest-grossing crops per acre. Create a debt-free farm and surround yourself with beauty by following this expert advice.

Here are the results of my frugal backyard flower farm (with a seed cost of just under $100). Over 25 cut flower varieties with reviews and photos!

Here at Floret, we have just 2 tiny acres dedicated to flower production. We utilize every available square inch of that space growing large volumes of high-quality cut flowers that supply more than a dozen grocery stores, numerous flower shops, our on-farm workshops, and wedding couples throughout the Pacific Northwest. We employ high-intensity production techniques […]

In early 2021 when I was starting my small-scale flower farm, I noticed that it was not terribly easy to find free resources to help me get going. Sure, there were a few I found right away (many of which I mention in this post), but I wanted someone who had been there before who could walk me through the process and who could tell me about what to expect from this new venture. I did find several paid courses that offered the kind of information I was looking for, but I wasn’t even positive…

When Vail Family Farm was started three years ago, a large part of the vision for our specialty cut flower farm was always to invite people to their space. Check out this article on hosting flower events.

In the past few years, flower farming has seen a distinct boom in the U.S. While there used to be relatively few sources you could go to if you were wanting to go into growing cut flowers for profit, there are now more than you could ever read / watch / follow in a lifetime. However, I have found relatively few sources that give actual hard and fast numbers for what it costs to START one (although occasionally you’ll get a ballpark figure–I’ve seen some saying as little as around $600 and…

On land passed down through generations, a Wisconsin family experiences—and shares—the glory of gardening.