For the last couple of years, we’ve been creating content, lots of it….. Words, Photos, Videos, Audios, and check sheets, and we’ve now got quite a collection of courses going.
One of the things we’ve been asked most is ‘How did we get started?’
We looked around, bought books - well, THE book as there was really just one
‘The Flower Farmer’ by Lynn Bycynski, an American grower with US varieties and wide grass paths.
Then Arjen Heuse published ‘The Cut Flower Grower’s Handbook’ too
We all went on farm visits or flower growing workshops:
Paula went to Gill Hodgson in Yorkshire
Carol went to Green and Gorgeous in Oxfordshire
Claire went to Sarah Raven and Georgie Newbery’s Common Farm Flowers…
And we all joined Flowers from the Farm!
If you think you might like to start your own flower farming journey, we’d recommend you do all of these things, and wander the internet, there are now many more books and more farms to visit, courses to go on.
And now another option: we’ve created a new on-line course:
Start at the beginning - you don’t think of yourself yet as a flower farmer…. maybe you’d count yourself as a gardener who might like to to see if they could make some money growing flowers, or maybe you’ve acquired some land that you feel you’d like to do something with, or maybe you’ve already got a farm that grows other crops, and flowers are something you could add into the mix ……. this is just the course for you!
We’ve got together all the information that you need when you’re starting out…. the initial business stuff, who your customers could be, what you could grow and how, plus we’ve asked people on our other courses what they’d wished they’d known when they started. It’s all there! More info here
lots of reference books