Slow Flowers Podcast

https://youtu.be/Gq3hs8tc8Wo?si=64jB7EX2_EMdo-a8

Jennifer Jewell’s long-running public radio show "Cultivating Place" asks: “Is cultivating place well the ability to feed your family better? Is it the ability to have a say in how our climate and our environment is cared for, starting right in our own backyards? Is it, in part, the tending to your household or community economy in a healthy and sane manner? Is it carrying the culture of your ancestors forward into the future or perhaps even rewriting the culture as you found it into the one you would like to tend and grow?”She continues, “Cultivating your place might even just be a matter of putting beautiful flowers on your bedside table every week you can, or having the gift of a public park or greenspace near enough that you can walk there, sit in the sun, or greet the trees and other neighbors there...”Jennifer is a Slow Flowers member who has joined us in advocating and supporting for domestic floral agriculture, local and seasonal flower growing and sourcing, and sustainable floral design practices that honor the land, the people connected to that land, and their communities. Today, she joins me to share news of the first, live, Cultivating Place symposium, taking place in South Bend, Indiana, later this month. It is called “The Power of Gardeners,” which is also the title of the new, 10-part Cultivating Place documentary series set to debut on PBS nationwide next spring. I’m delighted to catch up with Jennifer and you’re invited to listen in!

I’m thrilled to welcome Jennifer Jewell as a return guest to the Slow Flowers Podcast, as she updates us about all that’s happening in the Cultivating Place community.

Jennifer is the founder and host of Cultivating Place, a national award-winning weekly public radio program and podcast that debuted in 2016. The show evolved from Jennifer’s first public radio program, “In A North State Garden,” which aired on North State Public Radio in Northern California from 2008 to 2015. Her current one-hour, interview-based program, “Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden,” is co-produced by North State Public Radio and focuses on the culture of gardening around the world. Cultivating Place is syndicated on NPR affiliate radio stations across California and in Ohio and available as individual episodes to public radio stations on Public Radio Exchange (PRX).

The Power of Gardeners speaker lineup:

Top row: Abra Lee (left) and Ben Futa (right), co-hosts of Cultivating PlaceBottom row: Chris Fehlhaber (left) and Wambui Ippolito (right)

Over the years, a passionate community has formed around Cultivating Place, and later this month, hosts, listeners, and friends, will gather for their first in-person symposium, called “The Power of Gardeners” The Symposium includes a full day of lectures and panels on Friday, September 25. In addition to the show’s co-hosts Abra Lee and Ben Futa, Jennifer will be joined by Wambui Ippolito and Chris Fehlhaber to round out the speaker lineup. The gathering will also include a panel on the creation of The Power of Gardeners documentary series, with filmmaker and director Myriam Nicodemus.

The Power of Gardeners will continue on Saturday, September 26th, with a guided tour led by Ben Futa, as participants will visit his South Bend floriculture and horticulture enterprises, including the gardening boutique called Botany & Co. and the Lot Next Door Nursery. Later, guests will visit and hear more about the background and future of gardens and green spaces contributing to the reconnection of people, plants, pollinators, and purpose of place in South Bend. Ben is a new member of Slow Flowers, as he is now a cut flower farmer who grows on satellite land near Botany & Co. We’ll learn more from him in a future episode of the Slow Flowers Podcast, I promise.

Let’s jump right in and welcome Jennifer Jewell to the Slow Flowers Podcast. Together we will explore what she means by the phrase “cultivating place,” and how we all should embody the word “Gardener, with a capital G.” A program note: The first 3 minutes of today’s episode includes a trailer for “The Power of Gardeners;” it’s a sneak peek into the new PBS documentary series set to debut next April. This will be followed by my extended interview with Jennifer.

There is still time to register at the Early Bird rate of $140 to attend The Power of Gardeners – the discount continues through September 15th. Follow the link in our show notes for more details. As I mentioned to Jennifer, this is an incredibly affordable event, so if you’re in the region and you can make the trip to South Bend, I encourage you to do so.

In South Bend, you‘ll learn lessons from people tending plants in their places, despite many odds, and in doing so growing everything better: the ecology of interdependent gardens, the look and feel of the city, the economic and cultural integrity and vibrancy of their communities, and the future history of these people and this place.

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Thank you to our Sponsors

This show is brought to you by slowflowers.com, the free, online directory to florists, shops, and studios who design with local, seasonal and sustainable flowers and to the farms that grow those blooms. It’s the conscious choice for buying and sending flowers.

And thank you to our lead sponsor, My Patio Tree: Expertly Grown Plants, Perfectly Designed to Elevate Your Garden. Their second-generation family tree farm has curated the best-performing, cutting-edge, multi-zone varieties to enhance your garden, patio or special event. Every tree purchased supports Plant With Purpose, a nonprofit organization that restores hope by reversing global poverty and environmental damage. Learn more at mypatiotree.com.

Thank you to Charles Little & Company for supplying our industry with some of the most beautiful and sustainably-grown design ingredients, available nationwide through their website at charleslittleandcompany.com. Based in Eugene, Oregon, the farmers at Charles Little & Company have been growing and drying flowers since 1986. New products and dried flower collections are added to their website at the first of each month. Check it out at charleslittleandcompany.com.

And thank you to the Seattle Growers Market, a farmer-owned cooperative committed to providing the very best the Pacific Northwest has to offer in cut flowers, foliage and plants. The Growers Market’s mission is to foster a vibrant marketplace that sustains local flower farms and provides top-quality products and service to the local floral industry. Visit them at seattlegrowersmarket.com.

The Slow Flowers Podcast is a member-supported endeavor, downloaded more than 1.6 million times by listeners like you. Thank you for listening, commenting and sharing – it means so much. As our movement gains more supporters and more passionate participants who believe in the importance of our domestic cut flower industry, the momentum is contagious. I know you feel it, too. If you’re new to our weekly Show and our long-running Podcast, check out all of our resources at SlowFlowersSociety.com.

Thank you for listening! Sending love, from my cutting garden to you! (c) Missy Palacol Photography

I’m Debra Prinzing, host and producer of the Slow Flowers Show & Podcast. The Slow Flowers Podcast is engineered and edited by Andrew Brenlan. The content and opinions expressed here are either mine alone or those of my guests alone, independent of any podcast sponsor or other person, company or organization. Next week, you’re invited to join me in putting more Slow Flowers on the table, one stem, one vase at a time. Thanks so much for joining us today and I’ll see you next week!

Music credits:

Drone Pine; Gaena; Heartland Flyerby Blue Dot Sessionshttp://www.sessions.blue

Lovelyby Tryad http://tryad.bandcamp.com/album/instrumentalshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

In The Fieldaudionautix.com

https://youtu.be/R-QtKdwKdSU?si=fipDZUssACCpompf

If the garden is your muse, or your source of peace and mental wellness, you’ll want to join me today on a restorative and inspiring visit to FloraWood, where Jen Wilcoxon’s delightful home garden and design studio serve as the basis for her creative, plant- and flora-based business. Jen founded FloraWood in 2019 to share her love of all things green with others via custom floral and botanical designs. She sources most of her plants and flowers from local Oregon growers and uses some of the varieties that flourish right outside her studio. Jen’s original vision for FloraWood was to bring people together in beautiful spaces and share the joy of creating. She taught around Portland while also offering container design services. Soon, clients requested cut flower bouquets for special occasions too, which led to FloraWood’s focus on bespoke, garden-style arrangements for any occasion! Jen recently welcomed me into her charming garden studio where she designed a signature compote arrangement featuring locally-grown blooms. I know you’ll enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed my visit!

Jen Wilcoxon of FloraWood PDX (c) Milana Gilligan @gilligan_milana

When Jen Wilcoxon built her design studio, she set her intention for FloraWood and wrote it on the foundation: Growth, Beauty, Abundance, Creativity, Community, Friends, Joy.

Inside the garden studio at FloraWood (c) Milana Gilligan @gilligan_milana

FloraWood is the manifestation all of these attributes, a deep reflection of Jen’s personal mission to live among and share the beauty of flowers.

The dreamy garden studio (c) Milana Gilligan @gilligan_milana

In the process of creating and building her client base, she has learned much about herself and her values. As she writes: “FloraWood has allowed me to slow down and really pay attention to the rhythm of nature and the plants and flowers of each season. I feel reconnected with nature’s beauty anew each season and enjoy the creative process of designing bespoke floral and botanical arrangements for my clients. By building FloraWood, I feel as though I created the perfect job for myself.” All of this started in 2019, after having a career in marketing and taking a hiatus from the corporate world to raise two daughters and volunteer in her community.

FloraWood workshop The garden studio (c) Milana Gilligan @gilligan_milana

FloraWood began as a garden container design business, but by 2023, after juggling both floral design services and gardening services for a few years, Jen transitioned to floral design only. Her plate is very full, with year-round floral subscription services, event design, and workshops.

Thanks so much for joining me today.

Find and follow Jen at FloraWood’s social places on Instagram and Facebook

Upcoming fall workshops in her beautiful Portland studio.

Thank you to our Sponsors

This show is brought to you by slowflowers.com, the free, online directory to florists, shops, and studios who design with local, seasonal and sustainable flowers and to the farms that grow those blooms. It’s the conscious choice for buying and sending flowers.

Thank you to our lead sponsor, My Patio Tree: Expertly Grown Plants, Perfectly Designed to Elevate Your Garden. Their second-generation family tree farm has curated the best-performing, cutting-edge, multi-zone varieties to enhance your garden, patio or special event. Every tree purchased supports Plant With Purpose, a nonprofit organization that restores hope by reversing global poverty and environmental damage. Learn more at mypatiotree.com.

Thank you to Rooted Farmers. Rooted Farmers works exclusively with local growers to put the highest-quality specialty cut flowers in floral customers' hands. When you partner with Rooted Farmers, you are investing in your community, and you can expect a commitment to excellence in return. Learn more at RootedFarmers.com

And thank you to Johnny's Selected Seeds, an employee-owned company that provides our industry the best flower, herb and vegetable seeds -- supplied to farms large and small and even backyard cutting gardens like mine. Find the full catalog of flower seeds and bulbs at johnnyseeds.com.

Thank you for joining me today! The Slow Flowers Podcast is a member-supported endeavor, downloaded more than 1.6 million times by listeners like you. Thank you for listening, commenting and sharing – it means so much. As our movement gains more supporters and more passionate participants who believe in the importance of our domestic cut flower industry, the momentum is contagious. I know you feel it, too. If you’re new to our weekly Show and our long-running Podcast, check out all of our resources at SlowFlowersSociety.com.

Thank you for listening! Sending love, from my cutting garden to you! (c) Missy Palacol Photography

I'm Debra Prinzing, host and producer of the Slow Flowers Show & Podcast. The Slow Flowers Podcast is engineered and edited by Andrew Brenlan. The content and opinions expressed here are either mine alone or those of my guests alone, independent of any podcast sponsor or other person, company or organization. Next week, you're invited to join me in putting more Slow Flowers on the table, one stem, one vase at a time. Thanks so much for joining us today and I'll see you next week!

Music credits:

Drone Pine; Gaena; Margot Zunniby Blue Dot Sessionshttp://www.sessions.blue

Lovelyby Tryad http://tryad.bandcamp.com/album/instrumentalshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

In The Fieldaudionautix.com

https://youtu.be/G89VtK9U79s?si=mfwBN6zQB5hNmBhJ

Bloomz Flower Farm is a 25-acre farm and design studio in Zillah, Washington, with gorgeous views of Mt. Adams, surrounded by beautiful farmland in all directions, including wheat and alfalfa production. Here, owner Sara Groeneweg has infused flower farming into all aspects of her life and business. After earning an agriculture education degree at Washington State University in 2000, Sara taught high school agriculture for eight years before starting her family. Now, in addition to raising two teenage sons, she teaches middle school science – one full-time job – while also growing more than 50 varieties of flowers at Bloomz Flower Farm for weddings, events, flower subscriptions, and market bouquets – her other full-time job. A natural teacher, Sara acknowledges that she is a crazy for flowers and loves sharing their beauty with others.

Sara Groeneweg of Bloomz Flower Farm

Lisianthus at Bloomz Flower Farm

Sara Groeneweg grew up in a family of gardeners and growers in western Washington. When she was young, showing livestock at the local fair, Sara noticed the 4H and Future Farmers of America kids with their teachers. They looked like they were having so much fun that she decided: “That’s what I want to do when I grow up!”

Hey, this is adorable, Sara!

The experience led her into agricultural education where she studied at Washington State University and me her future husband, Leroy, a horticulture major. They married and settled in the Yakima Valley in eastern Washington, close to where Leroy grew up. Now with two teenage sons, life is very full. And like most competent women, Sara is a doer. She currently teaches science full-time at the local middle school in Wapato, while also operating Bloomz Flower Farm. As a farmer-florist, Sara loves designing weddings and of course, she grows everything for her events. The crops at Bloomz are arranged in beds and borders that beautify the landscape, which also has integrated structures like arbors and trellises – and an attractive and productive wood-framed greenhouse. In recent years, more of a farm vibe has crept onto the family property, with rows of dahlias and annuals occupying one huge zone.

Sara during our Slow Flowers Summit tour of the Seattle Growers Market

I first met Sara when she attended the 2023 Slow Flowers Summit in Bellevue, Washington, arriving with buckets of her own stems to share for our floral design takeover there. When I scheduled a trip to the Yakima Valley a few weeks ago, I invited myself for a visit and tour. Plus, we recorded a wonderful conversation about Sara’s floral journey. I know you’ll enjoy seeing what she grows in her gorgeous garden, including the dahlias at their peak. Let’s jump right in and get started!

Wedding florals, grown and designed by Sara Groeneweg

a Bloomz Flower Farm wedding

Dahlias from Bloomz Flower Farm

Find and follow Bloomz Flower Farm on Instagram and Facebook.

Thank you to our Sponsors

This show is brought to you by slowflowers.com, the free, online directory to florists, shops, and studios who design with local, seasonal and sustainable flowers and to the farms that grow those blooms. It’s the conscious choice for buying and sending flowers.

Thank you to our lead sponsor, My Patio Tree: Expertly Grown Plants, Perfectly Designed to Elevate Your Garden. Their second-generation family tree farm has curated the best-performing, cutting-edge, multi-zone varieties to enhance your garden, patio or special event. Every tree purchased supports Plant With Purpose, a nonprofit organization that restores hope by reversing global poverty and environmental damage. Learn more at mypatiotree.com.

Thank you to the Seattle Growers Market, a farmer-owned cooperative committed to providing the very best the Pacific Northwest has to offer in cut flowers, foliage and plants. The Growers Market’s mission is to foster a vibrant marketplace that sustains local flower farms and provides top-quality products and service to the local floral industry. Visit them at seattlegrowersmarket.com.

And thank you to Longfield Gardens, which provides home gardeners with high-quality flower bulbs and perennials. Their online store offers plants for every region and every season, from tulips and daffodils to dahlias, caladiums and amaryllis. Check out the full catalog at Longfield Gardens at longfield-gardens.com.

Thank you for joining me today! The Slow Flowers Podcast is a member-supported endeavor, downloaded more than 1.6 million times by listeners like you. Thank you for listening, commenting and sharing – it means so much. As our movement gains more supporters and more passionate participants who believe in the importance of our domestic cut flower industry, the momentum is contagious. I know you feel it, too. If you’re new to our weekly Show and our long-running Podcast, check out all of our resources at SlowFlowersSociety.com.

Thank you for listening! Sending love, from my cutting garden to you! (c) Missy Palacol Photography

I'm Debra Prinzing, host and producer of the Slow Flowers Show & Podcast. The Slow Flowers Podcast is engineered and edited by Andrew Brenlan. The content and opinions expressed here are either mine alone or those of my guests alone, independent of any podcast sponsor or other person, company or organization. Next week, you're invited to join me in putting more Slow Flowers on the table, one stem, one vase at a time. Thanks so much for joining us today and I'll see you next week!

Music credits:

Drone Pine; Gaena; Telnik Sparkleby Blue Dot Sessionshttp://www.sessions.blue

Lovelyby Tryad http://tryad.bandcamp.com/album/instrumentalshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

In The Fieldaudionautix.com

https://youtu.be/Jv0AOhkze38?si=v4B1hNOw4a4Jo9us

Spokane, Washington-based floral personality Katie Lila is on a mission to make fresh flowers a cultural expectation. Not just a novelty, but a norm. She has navigated many facets of the flower-verse – from running a floral event business, to crafting large-scale art installations, and producing her floral-centric TV series. We first featured Katie as producer and host of “Follow the Blooms” in 2024 when it debuted on a live-streaming platform. Now the series has moved to PBS with a nationwide distribution that reaches 70% of public TV viewers across the country. I reunited with Katie last week at Bellevue Botanical Garden, where she previously filmed our Slow Flowers Summit in 2023. The “Flower Summit” episode is part of Season One. Bellevue Botanical Garden hosted a Follow the Blooms screening for members and volunteers. You’ll hear an update from Katie as we discuss manifesting one’s floral dreams, and a conversation with James Gagliardi, the BBG director, who discusses the importance of public gardens in the life of communities everywhere. Katie also generously shared a preview of her “Flower Summit” Episode. If you attended that fabulous event, you might just see yourself on the screen!

Katie Lila of Follow the Blooms

Slow Flowers Summit 2024 with Katie Lila of Follow the Blooms. From left: Gina Lett-Shrewsberry, Katie Lila, Debra Prinzing, Olivia Yates O'Donnell and Sarah Wagstaff

Katie Lila has spent more than two decades working in every nook and cranny of the flower industry—running a wedding and event business, holding workshops, creating massive floral installations, and producing “Follow the Blooms.” She has partnered with local growers, visited farms across the country, and inspired hands-on flower experiences in ways people never imagined.These days, Katie is a flower-reporter who documents the world of blooms and shares their narratives through media that tells a darn good story.

This all comes together in 10 episodes of “Follow the Blooms” Season One, just picked up nationally by PBS stations in 70 percent of the viewing market. As Katie integrates fresh flowers into the mainstream fabric of society through innovative floral experiences that spark joy, cultivate community, and invite curiosity, she is living out her own dream of floral storytelling – something we here at Slow Flowers have been doing for 15 years. We’re thrilled that Katie is a Slow Flowers member and encourage you to join her as she’s following the blooms. As Katie likes to say: “If my creativity had a theme song, it would be a quirky tune on a ukulele titled, ‘What Else Can We Do With Flowers?’”

WATCH Follow the Blooms on PBS

Join me to learn more about this project and also learn how you might be able to get involved in a future episode. Let’s jump right in and get started. Enjoy a sneak peek of the “Flower Summit” episode that features Tracy Yang of Jarn Co. Flower Farm, the Seattle Growers Market, and the Slow Flowers Summit from 2023. 

Season Two of Follow the Blooms is currently filming, but Katie is collecting ideas for Season Three.

Thank you to our Sponsors

This show is brought to you by slowflowers.com, the free, online directory to florists, shops, and studios who design with local, seasonal and sustainable flowers and to the farms that grow those blooms. It’s the conscious choice for buying and sending flowers.

Thank you to our lead sponsor, My Patio Tree: Expertly Grown Plants, Perfectly Designed to Elevate Your Garden. Their second-generation family tree farm has curated the best-performing, cutting-edge, multi-zone varieties to enhance your garden, patio or special event. Every tree purchased supports Plant With Purpose, a nonprofit organization that restores hope by reversing global poverty and environmental damage. Learn more at mypatiotree.com.

Thank you to Johnny's Selected Seeds, an employee-owned company that provides our industry the best flower, herb and vegetable seeds -- supplied to farms large and small and even backyard cutting gardens like mine. Find the full catalog of flower seeds and bulbs at johnnyseeds.com.

Thank you to Charles Little & Company for supplying our industry with some of the most beautiful and sustainably-grown design ingredients, available nationwide through their website at charleslittleandcompany.com. Based in Eugene, Oregon, the farmers at Charles Little & Company have been growing and drying flowers since 1986. New products and dried flower collections are added to their website at the first of each month. Check it out at charleslittleandcompany.com.

Thank you for joining me today! The Slow Flowers Podcast is a member-supported endeavor, downloaded more than 1.6 million times by listeners like you. Thank you for listening, commenting and sharing – it means so much. As our movement gains more supporters and more passionate participants who believe in the importance of our domestic cut flower industry, the momentum is contagious. I know you feel it, too. If you’re new to our weekly Show and our long-running Podcast, check out all of our resources at SlowFlowersSociety.com.

Thank you for listening! Sending love, from my cutting garden to you! (c) Missy Palacol Photography

I'm Debra Prinzing, host and producer of the Slow Flowers Show & Podcast. The Slow Flowers Podcast is engineered and edited by Andrew Brenlan. The content and opinions expressed here are either mine alone or those of my guests alone, independent of any podcast sponsor or other person, company or organization. Next week, you're invited to join me in putting more Slow Flowers on the table, one stem, one vase at a time. Thanks so much for joining us today and I'll see you next week!

Music credits:

Drone Pine; Gaena; Rose Ornamentalby Blue Dot Sessionshttp://www.sessions.blue

Lovelyby Tryad http://tryad.bandcamp.com/album/instrumentalshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

In The Fieldaudionautix.com

https://youtu.be/SqVoGI3RoGU?si=IZrA4gsWPLOOIDz4

In her new book, Floramama, flower farmer Chloé Roy combines ecological growing practices, proven business strategies, and the artistry of floral design into a visually rich guide to small-scale floriculture. This Quebec-based farmer-florist originally published Floramama in her native French language in 2023, and now, New Society Publishers has translated it into English for the rest of us to savor and absorb. Chloé is a biointensive ecological flower grower and flower farming educator. She learned market gardening from expert vegetable growers and then leveraged her skills and knowledge to turn Floramama Farm’s 1.5 acres into a thriving, six-figure flower business. We’re thrilled that the Slow Flowers Movement is featured in the book’s opening pages, where Chloé writes: “I discovered the Slow Flowers movement, inspired by the Slow Food Movement. American author Debra Prinzing published her 2014 book Slow Flowers (and) her work helped create a wonderful flower-growing community in the United States and eventually around the world.” It’s the Slow Flowers journey that connected me with Chloé and her work, and you’ll love our conversation today, which includes a deep dive into Floramama, the book.

Floramama’s Chloé Roy

A message from Floramama

In the lead up to Canadian Flowers Week, taking place August 17-23, we scheduled today’s episode to shine a light on one of Canada’s inspiring floral stories. Chloé Roy is a successful ecological flower grower, flower farming instructor, and founder of the ground-breaking start-up Floramama. After working with Jean-Martin Fortier at Les Jardins de la Grelinette for two years, she was inspired to apply her skills in human-scale agriculture to floriculture. Chloé launched Floramama, Quebec’s first biointensive flower farm, in 2014.

Floramama Farm

Tulips from Floramama Farm

Since then, Floramama has grown to provide full-time employment for several women while delivering bouquets to over 550 annual subscribers and selling to the public through farmers’ markets, to florists and designers, to small local shops and a large organic grocery store chain, as well as arranging flowers for weddings and events, turning Floramama’s 1.5 acres of flowers into a $380,000 annual business. Chloé lives and farms in Frelighsburg, Quebec.

Floramama, the book - available in French, and now, in English, too!

Flora Mama bouquet wrap

Table of Contents, Floramama Book

CSA Bouquets

Also, check out Canadian Flowers Week’s website and Instagram to learn how you can support and celebrate this wonderful floral holiday, which Slow Flowers inspired and helped to launch. The campaign acknowledges that many of the flowers that are sold in Canada are imported and aspires to increase the percentage of local flowers used by floral designers and purchased by Canadian consumers. By raising awareness of flower seasonality in Canada and connecting with growers, both the industry and consumers can start to make locally conscious purchase decisions without having to sacrifice quality and uniqueness. Learn more at canadianflowersweek.ca.

Thank you to our Sponsors

This show is brought to you by slowflowers.com, the free, online directory to florists, shops, and studios who design with local, seasonal and sustainable flowers and to the farms that grow those blooms. It’s the conscious choice for buying and sending flowers.

Thank you to our lead sponsor, My Patio Tree: Expertly Grown Plants, Perfectly Designed to Elevate Your Garden. Their second-generation family tree farm has curated the best-performing, cutting-edge, multi-zone varieties to enhance your garden, patio or special event. Every tree purchased supports Plant With Purpose, a nonprofit organization that restores hope by reversing global poverty and environmental damage. Learn more at mypatiotree.com.

Thank you to Rooted Farmers. Rooted Farmers works exclusively with local growers to put the highest-quality specialty cut flowers in floral customers' hands. When you partner with Rooted Farmers, you are investing in your community, and you can expect a commitment to excellence in return. Learn more at RootedFarmers.com.

And thank you to Longfield Gardens, which provides home gardeners with high-quality flower bulbs and perennials. Their online store offers plants for every region and every season, from tulips and daffodils to dahlias, caladiums and amaryllis. Check out the full catalog at Longfield Gardens at longfield-gardens.com.

Thank you for joining me today! The Slow Flowers Podcast is a member-supported endeavor, downloaded more than 1.6 million times by listeners like you. Thank you for listening, commenting and sharing – it means so much. As our movement gains more supporters and more passionate participants who believe in the importance of our domestic cut flower industry, the momentum is contagious. I know you feel it, too.

Thank you for listening! Sending love, from my cutting garden to you! (c) Missy Palacol Photography

If you’re new to our weekly Show and our long-running Podcast, check out all of our resources at SlowFlowersSociety.com. I'm Debra Prinzing, host and producer of the Slow Flowers Show & Podcast. The Slow Flowers Podcast is engineered and edited by Andrew Brenlan. The content and opinions expressed here are either mine alone or those of my guests alone, independent of any podcast sponsor or other person, company or organization. Next week, you're invited to join me in putting more Slow Flowers on the table, one stem, one vase at a time. Thanks so much for joining us today and I'll see you next week!

Music credits:

Drone Pine; Gaena; Stencilsby Blue Dot Sessionshttp://www.sessions.blue

Lovelyby Tryad http://tryad.bandcamp.com/album/instrumentalshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

In The Fieldaudionautix.com