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The Slow Flowers Podcast is the award-winning, long-running show known as the “Voice of the Slow Flowers Movement.” Airing weekly for more than 9 years, we focus on the business of flower farming and floral design through the Slow Flowers sustainability ethos. Listen to a new episode each Wednesday, available for free download here at slowflowerspodcast.com or on iTunes, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.
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The Backyard Bouquet Podcast: Cut Flower Podcast for Flower Farmers & Backyard Gardeners
Jennifer Gulizia of The Flowering Farmhouse
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A podcast for flower farmers, gardeners, and cut flower growers who are growing more than just flowers. Hosted by Jennifer Gulizia of The Flowering Farmhouse, The Backyard Bouquet shares inspiring conversations and expert tips from the fields and gardens of cut flower farmers and home growers. Whether you're planting your first backyard bed or running a thriving flower farm, each episode offers practical growing advice, heartfelt stories, and the encouragement to cultivate beauty, joy, and c ...
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Episode 730: Meet farmer-florist Colleen Raney of Diadem Flowers as we discuss her new project, Songbird Seed Co., specializing in hard-to-find British sweet pea seeds and more
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https://youtu.be/gaTn7jO3DS4?si=xEnvvGPsdI7t0di3I truly love learning about the floral journeys that so many of our members have taken to arrive at a life immersed in flower growing, floral design, or both. For Colleen Raney, the path began when she and her husband were professional musicians. Colleen’s decades-long career as a celebrated Irish sin…
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Ep. 67: How to Press Flowers Like a Pro: Featuring Kate Punnett of The August Press
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If you’ve ever had more flowers than you know what to do with—or wished you could make a special bouquet last forever—this episode will spark your creativity. In this conversation, I’m joined by Kate Punnett, founder of The August Press, a professional flower press studio dedicated to turning fresh blooms into timeless art. With over a decade as an…
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Episode 729: Jenny Jonak of Dragon Song Farm on building community, enriching a family’s lifestyle, and encouraging creative expression through flower farming
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https://youtu.be/L3ykZ98zqsE?si=uJggIXWspcqsw0moDragon Song Farm is located in Oregon’s Willamette Valley outside Eugene. Founder Jenny Jonak’s mission is to bring a sense of floral magic to her customers and community while promoting sustainable, earth-friendly growing practices. By using regenerative farming techniques, Dragon Song ensures that t…
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Episode 728: Building a Successful Floral Tourism Destination, with Lori and Jim Bochner of Bochner Farms in Indianola, Iowa
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https://youtu.be/EB6eWif0mio?si=pfsFql-4xDnbwBWNThe Bochner family lived in the Des Moines, Iowa, suburbs for many years, in a house surrounded by a beautiful flower garden. As gardeners with other careers, Lori and Jim never dreamed of packing up everything, moving to rural Iowa, and growing thousands of flowers on a farm. Today, they consider Boc…
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Ep. 66: How to Shift Your Mindset and Build a Profitable Flower Farm with Charlotte Smith
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If you’ve ever struggled with burnout, self-doubt, or pricing your flowers with confidence, this episode is for you. In Episode 66 of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, Jennifer sits down with Charlotte Smith — a farmer, coach, and host of The Profitable Mindset Podcast — to talk about the mindset shifts that can make or break your flower farming busine…
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Ep. 65: From CSA to Advocacy: How Jenny Jonak of Dragon Song Farm Is Growing More Than Just Cut Flowers
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In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, host Jennifer Gulizia sits down with Jenny Jonak of Dragon Song Farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley to explore how one flower farmer is blending sustainable flower farming, community-supported agriculture (CSA), and policy advocacy to create real impact. Jenny shares how she grew her CSA flower farm f…
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Episode 727: A tour of La Flor Farm’s dahlia fields, where four generations grow exquisite blooms for the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market and local florists
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https://youtu.be/Aa6Q2fWCG1g?si=AuRMPGoLwVJ-ZE_vLong before I met the women of La Flor Farm, I met their gorgeous flowers. For the past three years, mom Michele and daughter Chantelle have supplied customers (like me) who shop at the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market with a breathtakingly beautiful selection of the highest quality flowers – from tul…
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Ep. 64: From Side Hustle to Full-Time Flower Farmer: Brooke Palmer Reflects One Year Later
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In Episode 64 of The Backyard Bouquet, flower farmer and educator Brooke Palmer of Jenny Creek Flowers returns to the podcast—one year after making the leap from part-time growing to full-time cut flower farming. After balancing a teaching career and a growing flower farm for several years, Brooke decided in 2024 to hang up her classroom keys and p…
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Episode 726: Navigating weddings as a farmer-florist with Julie Raymond of Bittersweet Gardens
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https://youtu.be/0doEw6lpGz4?si=XdYFY6NZ8r23c5-WBased in Kingston, Massachusetts, on Boston’s South Shore, farmer-florist Julie Raymond grows cut flowers for her clients’ wedding florals. After an initial career in social service, Julie’s graduate work in horticulture and landscape design now informs her philosophy. She says: “That background in sc…
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Episode 725: Slow Flowers returns to Sunny Meadows Flower Farm to celebrate The Flower Farmers with Steve and Gretel Adams
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https://youtu.be/RslR3txR91Q?si=yleBkHEYO26z4Ag4Next year, Gretel and Steve Adams will celebrate the 20th farming season at Sunny Meadows Flower Farm in Columbus, Ohio. Far younger than the average U.S. farmer, these first-generation flower growers have built Sunny Meadows into an impressive floral enterprise encompassing more than 30 acres, employ…
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Episode 724: When a flower farmer opens a retail design studio, with Stacey Chapman of Westwind Flowers Farm & Studio
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https://youtu.be/_tDUwuW3ZGY?si=0gpALTpIPayQcwCGIn early March, Stacey Chapman embarked on a new chapter for Westwind Flowers, opening a design studio and retail space in Gordonsville, Virginia. Adding this beautiful destination for her customers and the public means Westwind can provide more local flowers to their community on a greater scale with…
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Episode 723: Drawing from her family’s horticulture roots, Michigan-based farmer-florist Erin Webb of Florista of West Olive shares a farm tour and design demonstration
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https://youtu.be/D2d_-D2HVK8?si=VMUallUaLM2SBsumErin Webb grew up immersed in plants and horticulture, following three generations of Michigan ornamental nursey owners before her. For as long as she can remember, Erin was immersed in the business of plants. After studying business and Spanish in college, and after an initial career in corporate Ame…
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Ep.63: Floral Standards Every Flower Farmer Should Know with Diane Szukovathy of Jello Mold Farm
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In Episode 63 of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, Jennifer sits down with Diane Szukovathy of Jello Mold Farm to explore the critical role of floral standards in flower farming. Diane shares how she went from planting zinnia seeds as a child to co-founding the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market and co-authoring Floral Standards — a groundbreaking guide …
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Episode 722: Ondrea Kidd of Post Falls, Idaho-based Sowing Joy Farm named Top 10 Florists to Watch in 2025 by MSN
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https://youtu.be/EiLxxVb7v9k?si=N590_MIvVkx3YabgOndrea Kidd has been recognized by MSN as one of the “Top 10 Florists to Watch in 2025”, bolstering the farm’s status as a leader in eco-friendly, heirloom floral design. The report highlighted innovators shaping the future of luxury floral design and it came as a complete surprise to this farmer-flor…
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Ep. 62: Inside a Family-Run Wedding Flower Farm: How Jennifer Joray Grows Cut Flowers for 40+ Weddings a Season
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What does it take to grow cut flowers for over 40 weddings a season—while running a farm as a family of four? In Part 2 of our conversation, Jennifer Joray of Eastern River Farm returns to share the details of how her family built a thriving, regenerative flower business in Maine. From crop planning to bouquet-making, and from packing systems to bu…
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Episode 721: Designer-Grower Annika McIntosh of Hazel Designs and a bonus tour of Bellingham’s Field to Floral Market
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https://youtu.be/E1exuo5iMOUA few weeks ago, I journeyed to Bellingham, a beautiful college town located close to the Washington-British Columbia border, where Annika McIntosh of Hazel Designs grows botanicals, designs gardens, and arranges flowers for everyday customers, weddings, and events. During what was a lovely morning in the garden and stud…
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Ep. 61: Jennifer Joray of Eastern River Farm on Flower Farming, Lyme Disease, and Finding Healing Through Nature
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What happens when a simple question—“What about farming?”—leads to a total life transformation? In this powerful episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, Jennifer Joray of Eastern River Farm shares her family’s courageous journey from city living to flower farming on a 20-acre homestead in Maine. But their story goes far beyond soil and seeds. Jenn…
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Episode 720: Killing Frost Farm’s Jamie Rogers on solo flower farming in western Montana
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https://youtu.be/9-oJEifK-u0?si=gW8_eyURbbSIEufOGrowing specialty cut flowers for retail floral shops is a very specific niche and today’s guest, Jamie Rogers of Killing Frost Farm in Helena, Montana, has a lot to share on this topic! Jamie co-founded the business with Carly Jenkins in 2014, the “killing frost” name a tongue-in-cheek reference to e…
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Episode 719: Weddings from the Garden, with urban farmer-florist Eleanor Blackford of Bloomwood Floral
https://youtu.be/BxZ3HiTn0UM?si=BtYeIDuXg2qjrW0nVisit an urban cutting garden with me today – and meet long-time Slow Flowers member Eleanor Blackford, a wedding florist whose studio produces designs using only what she grows on her 6,000-square-foot city lot in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. You’ll learn more about what Eleanor grows, inspire…
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Ep. 60: How Flowers Helped Nicole Sardo Heal, Grow, and Begin Again
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In this powerful episode of The Backyard Bouquet, host Jennifer Gulizia sits down with Nicole Sardo of Midnight Magic Garden—a former stop-motion artist who left her dream job at Laika Studios after a life-altering autoimmune diagnosis. Nicole shares her remarkable journey of healing through gardening, how she's building a flourishing micro flower …
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Episode 718: The Flower Farmers, with co-authors Robin Avni and Debra Prinzing; plus a bonus interview with Daniel Sparler, the book’s horticulture editor
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https://youtu.be/BdnRayT0M2A?si=PQVfp6yMUSJD7n42The Flower Farmers has been in the works for two years, as my co-author and the book’s creative director Robin Avni and I have poured our storytelling passion into the narratives and imagery that portray 29 North American growers. The book was released on May 6th by Abrams, and we’ve been in major cel…
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Episode 717: The future of Plant Masters, with legacy growers Leon and Carol Carrier, and their son Lee, next generation flower farmer now leading the family business
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https://youtu.be/vw5w4ZwBuZU?si=YZLcTE7pJ5P5-zVPThe Carrier family has been growing cut flowers and plants for more than 40 years, raising their three children with a love for flowers, and keeping the business in the family as it transitions into the hands of the next generation. Plant Masters, the specialty cut flower farm owned by Leon and Carol …
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Ep. 59: Frances Palmer on 'Life With Flowers': Gardening, Pottery, and the Art of Everyday Beauty
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In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet, we are joined by Frances Palmer—renowned potter, gardener, photographer, and author—to celebrate the release of her newest book, Life With Flowers. Known for her iconic handmade vessels and stunning floral photography, Frances shares how a life rooted in creativity, cultivation, and intention can lead to une…
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Episode 716: More than a side hustle, flower farming and floral design with Marly Surena-Llorens of Fenimore & Rutland
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https://youtu.be/uGRgC8rjB_U?si=ucehNezGBXce9kuXMarly Surena-Llorens was born and raised in the U.S., but her Haitian mother’s stories of tropical gardens filled with palms, crotons, and bougainvillea plants inspired her lifelong love of flowers. Yet, Marly says some of her most vivid floral impressions came from the BBC programs of her youth, when…
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Ep.58: The Slow Flowers Movement & The Power of Local Blooms with Debra Prinzing
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In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, we are joined by Debra Prinzing, founder of the Slow Flowers Movement and co-author of The Flower Farmers: Inspiration and Advice from Expert Growers. Debra shares her journey from writing The 50 Mile Bouquet to founding the Slow Flowers Movement—a movement that champions local, seasonal, and sustain…
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Episode 715: From Farmers’ Market to Elevated Retail, with Abby Matson of Diddle and Zen and Julie Rémy of Fleuris Orchard and Blooms
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https://youtu.be/P3SoClolo0g?si=_2euyh84isd_Ina4It's a Red-Letter Week here at Slow Flowers, as my longtime collaborator, Robin Avni, and I celebrate the May 6th publication of The Flower Farmers, our beautiful and informative new book featuring 29 growers across North America. You’ve heard a bit from some of the experts profiled in The Flower Farm…
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Ep.57: Celebrating 100 Years of Bearded Iris: The Legacy of Schreiner's Iris Gardens
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This week on The Backyard Bouquet, we’re celebrating a century of spectacular blooms with Schreiner’s Iris Gardens, one of the most iconic names in American flower farming. For over 100 years, the Schreiner family has been growing and breeding world-class bearded iris—a legacy that began in Minnesota and eventually found its forever home in Oregon’…
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Ep.56: The Push of Spring: How Seeds and Seasons Reshape Us
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In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, Jennifer invites you to step away from the rush of the season and pause at the garden gate. With raw honesty and gentle encouragement, she explores what it means to be in a season of becoming—when everything feels tender, stretched, and unfinished. Through the metaphors of seeds cracking open, the lo…
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Episode 714: An inspiring conversation with Frances Palmer, ceramic artist, photographer, flower gardener, and author of Life With Flowers
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https://youtu.be/2G-OjAkuVJY?si=lijpFSK8vvnkJW6LRenowned potter Frances Palmer has spent decades creating art that has enchanted designers and artists around the world. But there is another vibrant side of her creative life that she’s equally passionate about and devoted to – flower gardening and arranging. Today, join me in an engaging conversatio…
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Ep.55: Cut Flower Farming with Dave Dowling: Real-World Advice for Growing and Selling Flowers
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In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, we’re joined by one of the most respected voices in the cut flower industry—Dave Dowling. With over 20 years of experience as a flower farmer and now a trusted mentor to growers across North America, Dave shares insights you won’t want to miss. We talk about how he got started growing flowers (before…
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Episode 713: Sydney Fee of Fee, Fi, Fo Farm on how her sustainable hospitality and tourism background supports her farmer-florist enterprise
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https://youtu.be/ILIsMQVb0xs?si=apa9xNGFjmMBb6gqI’m always so inspired by the paths taken by our Slow Flowers Members to create their floral endeavors and today’s guest has a fabulous back-story, which we’ll share with you today. Sydney Fee of Fee, Fi, Fo Farm is based in New York’s Finger Lakes Region, home to nearly 150 wineries and many destinat…
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Ep.54: Earth Day in the Garden: Where Flowers Lead Us to Soil, Stewardship & Hope
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In this special Earth Day episode of The Backyard Bouquet, flower farmer and garden educator Jennifer Gulizia shares a deeply personal reflection on growing in harmony with the earth—and what it really means to be a steward of soil, beauty, and biodiversity. This solo episode blends story, science, and soul. Jennifer shares a poem Where Flowers Lea…
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