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The Backyard Bouquet Podcast: Cut Flower Farming Podcast for Flower Farmers & Backyard Gardeners
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Ep.98: Ellen Frost: The Florist Who Went All In on Local Flowers
Ep 98 · Aug 12, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min
Some of the most beautiful lives begin by accident. Ellen Frost was gifted a bag of tulip bulbs for her wedding. She had never planted a thing. She read the directions, put them in the ground, and when they came up that spring, something in her shifted. She grew up in a working class town in Buffalo with no connection to flowers or gardens or nature, and yet that one small spring miracle set the course for everything that came next. Today Ellen runs Local Color Flowers in Baltimore, one of the e…
Ep. 97 Erin Clark of Muddy Hill Flower Farm: Growing 5,000 Dahlias in Snohomish County
Ep 97 · Jul 3, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
Some stories start with a grand plan. Erin Clark's started with five dahlias and a need to get outside. In 2020, home with a new baby and a world gone quiet, Erin went looking for an outlet. She found it in a 60-square-foot patch of dirt. A neighbor walked by, saw her planting, and the next day her husband gifted Erin a whole tray of tubers. That neighbor turned out to be a dahlia hybridizer who lived right around the corner. That small act of generosity grew into Muddy Hill Flower Farm, where E…
Ep. 96: Growing Regenerative Cut Flowers in a Vineyard with Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich of Cluster Flock Farms
Ep 96 · Jun 4, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich plants peonies, daffodils, and alliums underneath her grape vines, and she has quadrupled the value of every linear foot of her vineyard by doing it. She runs Cluster Flock Farms and Vineyard on twenty-five acres in Husum, Washington, where she grows wine grapes for some of the best winemakers in the Columbia Gorge, raises chickens and ducks and geese, runs flower subscriptions and a flower stand on Highway 141, and books a la carte wedding florals. She is also a queer…
Ep.95: Soil Health for Flower Farmers with Jen Aron of Blue Raven Farm
Ep 95 · May 14, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Today's guest is the woman I call when I have a real soil question. Jen Aron is a regenerative farmer and soil agronomist at Blue Raven Farm in Corbett, Oregon, and she has spent the last decade quietly proving that soil is its own ecosystem with its own voice. In this episode we walk through what is actually happening beneath our feet, why compost may not be the answer you have been told it is, and the mantra she has taught me to repeat when farming feels too slow: trust and stay the course. In…
Ep.94: Graeme Corbett on Life in Bloom: From TV to a Cutting Garden in Kent
Ep 94 · Apr 30, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
What does it actually look like to leave one career behind and walk into the one that's been waiting for you? In this episode, Jennifer sits down with Graeme Corbett, the grower and storyteller behind Bloom & Burn, just weeks after the release of his brand new book Life in Bloom. Graeme spent years working in television in London, casting contestants for shows like The Voice and Celebrity Big Brother, before flowers found him. He talks about the long line of side projects that almost worked, the…
Ep.93: Should Flower Farmers Be Using AI?
Ep 93 · Apr 25, 2026 · 56 min
I've been using AI on my flower farm for over a year, and up until recently, I've only told a handful of people. Today I'm opening a conversation I haven't heard many in our industry having. It's a conversation every farmer deserves to be part of, whether you end up using AI or not. In this solo episode, I share what I actually use AI for in my business, what I refuse to touch, and the ethical questions I've been living with: the data centers threatening the Hood River watershed, the training da…
Ep. 92: Growing Tulips & Dahlias in Holland with FAM Flower Farm
Ep 92 · Apr 23, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
There are some places on earth that flower people put on a bucket list and never quite cross off. Holland's flower bulb region is one of them. The fields outside Keukenhof, where tulips bloom in waves of color every spring and tourists from around the world stop their cars on the side of the road just to take a picture. For Linda and Marlies of FAM Flower Farm, that landscape is daily life. Linda and Marlies grew up as friends in middle school, both surrounded by flowers. Linda married Henk, a t…
Episode 91: Dahlia Hybridizing with Kristine Albrecht of Santa Cruz Dahlias
Ep 91 · Apr 16, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
There are people who grow dahlias, and then there are people who spend two decades quietly shaping what dahlias can become. Kristine Albrecht is one of those people. From a weed-choked quarter acre in Santa Cruz, California, Kristine has built an extraordinary breeding program, growing 1,500 seedlings a year and selecting only about 50 to carry forward. Her cultivars (all marked with the K.A. prefix) have won some of the highest honors in the dahlia world, including multiple Daryl Hart Awards an…
Ep. 90: Sarah Raven, The Woman Who Changed How We Grow Flowers
Ep 90 · Apr 8, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min
She left medicine to grow flowers at her kitchen table. Thirty years later, Sarah Raven has written fourteen books, built a garden empire at Perch Hill, and changed how a generation thinks about cut flowers. In this episode, Jennifer sits down with Sarah to talk about her journey from wildflower-obsessed child to one of the most respected voices in the gardening world. They dig into the science of cutting (and why your garden actually gets better when you harvest from it), the magic of dahlia hy…
Ep. 89: Flower Farming in Australia's Barossa Valley with Katie Arena
Ep 89 · Mar 26, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
She started with zero qualifications, a personal trainer husband, and six dahlia tubers from the hardware store. Now Katie and her husband Rob run Little Lyndoch Flower Farm in Australia's Barossa Valley, growing just three crops on under an acre, and building a business that actually brings them joy. In this episode, Katie shares how they sold everything during COVID to fund the farm, why growing fewer crops made them more profitable, and what it really looks like to build something from the gr…
Ep. 88: Farming as Meditation: What Mindfulness Taught Chelsea Willis About Growing Flowers
Ep 88 · Mar 17, 2026 · 56 min
Chelsea Willis is the kind of farmer who notices the frogs in the dahlias. She's the owner of Sweet Delilah Farm on Sauvie Island, just 15 minutes outside Portland, Oregon. But her path to farming wasn't traditional. With a background in psychology and youth counseling, Chelsea originally wanted to find a way to get young people out on the land, because she saw how much easier it was for them to open up when their hands were busy and their feet were in the dirt. Then a piece of land became avail…
Ep. 87: Jenny Rae Swan: Ten Years of Flowers, Failures, and Finding Joy
Ep 87 · Feb 26, 2026 · 55 min
Some of the best flower farming stories start with a moment that changes everything. For Jenny Rae Swan, it was losing her mother at a young age and realizing that the only place she felt truly at peace was in a garden. That grief, paired with a wild amount of courage, led her to quit a stable career in higher education, rent a small plot on a local blueberry farm, and start growing flowers with no land of her own and very little money. She told everyone she knew she was going to be a flower far…
Summit Speaker Series: Kamille Scellick, Kamille's Flowers
Feb 26, 2026 · 20 min
If you've ever looked at a dahlia and wondered "what if I could create my own variety?" Kamille is the person you need to learn from. Her session is unlike anything else at the summit. She's taking us on the journey of a seedling from its first bloom to its official debut and showing how the art of hybridizing is so much more than science. It's about mentorship, community, and opening your garden to others. What I love about Kamille's approach is that she believes the most bea…
Summit Speaker Series: Charlotte Smith, The Marketing & Mindset Coach for Farmers
Feb 24, 2026 · 19 min
Charlotte is a 5th generation farmer and mindset coach and there's a reason she's one of our first speakers on Day 1 of The Profitable Dahlia Summit. Everything starts with mindset. You can learn every strategy in the world for selling dahlias, but if you don't believe you're worth charging for them, none of it matters. Charlotte is going to get your head right so you can take full advantage of every single session that follows. She's tackling the "broke farmer trap," the pricing guilt, the scar…
Summit Speaker Series: Heather Cain on Selling Dahlias to Florists
Feb 23, 2026 · 18 min
In this bonus episode, I'm sharing my Instagram Live conversation with Heather Cain of Petal Pink Flower Farm. We talked all about selling dahlias to florists and she shared so much that I know you're going to want to hear her full session at the summit. Have you ever thought about selling your dahlias to florists but weren't sure where to start? What do they actually expect? How do you price for wholesale? How do you even approach them? Heather is answering all of it at the Profitable Dahlia Su…
Summit Speaker Series: Marryn Mathis on Selling Out Your Dahlia Tuber Sale
Feb 23, 2026 · 23 min
In this bonus episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcst, I'm sharing my Instagram Live conversation with Marryn Mathis of The Farmhouse Flower Farm. We talked about getting ready for her tuber sale season, how it feels like a total rollercoaster, and some of Marryn's favorite dahlias this year. Marryn is speaking at the Profitable Dahlia Summit on March 4th and she's teaching how to host a dahlia tuber sale that sells out in a single day. Grab your summit ticket at the link in the show notes.…
Episode 86: From Backyard Dahlias to 4,000 Plants: Building Sweet Bloom Farm with Melissa Stewart
Ep 86 · Feb 17, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, I’m joined by Melissa Stewart of Sweet Bloom Farm, a boutique dahlia farm in Battle Ground, Washington. Melissa’s journey began the way so many of ours do, with a few mystery dahlias from a garden center and a spark she couldn’t ignore. What started as six blooming plants in her suburban backyard quickly grew into 20 varieties… then 50… then 100… and eventually into a two-acre farm growing 4,000 dahlias. In this conversation, we talk about: Scalin…
Ep. 85: Growing & Breeding Dahlias at Scale: Inside Florelie Flower Farm in Australia
Ep 85 · Feb 6, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min
In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, we’re heading south to Australia to visit Florelie, a small-scale but highly productive specialty cut flower farm near Ballarat, Victoria. Jennifer is joined by flower farmer and dahlia breeder Lorelie Merton, who shares how a gifted bunch of homegrown peonies sparked a journey that led her from speech pathology to full-time flower farming. Today, Florelie grows flowers on just 2.5 acres of a 20-acre property, with 20,000 dahlias, a robust dahlia…
Ep. 84: Growing Cut Flowers in Small Spaces: Community, Education & Local Blooms with Fawn Rueckert
Ep 84 · Jan 28, 2026 · 59 min
What’s possible when you start with just a small bit of earth—and a love of flowers rooted in childhood stories? In today’s episode, I’m joined by Fawn Rueckert, founder of Sego Lily Flower Farm, a thriving suburban flower farm growing on just one-third of an acre in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley. Fawn’s journey into flower farming began long before her first seed tray—from listening to The Secret Garden as a child to learning from generations of women who gardened before her. What started as a backya…
Ep.83: The Purposeful Gardener: Growing Food, Flowers, and Joy With Tasha Medve
Ep 83 · Jan 15, 2026 · 56 min
What if your garden could feed your family, support pollinators, and bring more joy into your everyday life — all at the same time? In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, Jennifer sits down with Tasha Medve, creator of The Purposeful You and author of the bestselling book The Purposeful Gardener. Tasha shares how her journey into purposeful gardening began during early motherhood, when making conscious, sustainable choices for her family became a priority. What started as a small garde…
Ep. 82: How to Plan Your Most Profitable Growing Season Yet (Live 2026 Dahlia Planning Workshop Replay)
Ep 82 · Jan 11, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min
Welcome to Season 3 of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast — and to the first episode of 2026. To kick off the new year, I’m doing something a little different. In this episode, I’m sharing the full replay of a live planning workshop I hosted this past weekend called How to Plan Your Most Profitable Dahlia Season Yet. Growers joined live from all over the world — Australia, Canada, Germany, France, New Zealand, the UK, and across the U.S. — and the response made it clear this was too valuable to let di…
Ep. 81: Geotuning the Land: How Addressing Geopathic Stress Can Support Soil Health and Regenerative Farms
Ep 81 · Dec 26, 2025 · 49 min
What if caring for land goes beyond soil tests, nutrients, and visible inputs? In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, Jennifer is joined by Brittney Herrera, founder and creative director of Thunder Egg, to explore the concept of geotuning—a practice often described as acupuncture for the land. Through her work, Brittney helps harmonize land and spaces by identifying and correcting geopathic stress, subtle disruptions in the Earth’s natural field that can impact people, plants, animals…
Ep. 80: Growing Dahlias, Letting Go of Perfection, and Finding Joy in the Garden With Anne Long of The Dahlia House
Ep 80 · Dec 19, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
What if growing dahlias wasn’t about doing everything perfectly—but about showing up, finding joy, and learning to flourish right where you are? In today’s episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, we are joined by Anne Long of The Dahlia House, a longtime dahlia grower, educator, and creative who has spent more than two decades growing flowers—and helping others discover that you don’t need a huge farm, endless time, or a picture-perfect life to fill your days with beauty. This honest, heartfelt…
Episode 79: How Janniebird Farm Thrives in Zone 4 with Flower Farmer Annie Amrich
Ep 79 · Dec 12, 2025 · 59 min
How do you grow flowers in a region known for long winters, short seasons, and frequent frosts? In this episode, we are joined by Annie Amrich of Janniebird Farm, a Zone 4 flower farmer thriving in the high-altitude climate of Gunnison, Colorado. Annie shares how she forces thousands of tulips each year, grows without greenhouses, and keeps flowers blooming nearly year-round in a place where frost can arrive any month of the year. Annie’s journey — from athletic training and medical sales back t…
Ep.78: How Claudia Built a Blooming Backyard and a Beloved YouTube Gardening Channel
Ep 78 · Dec 5, 2025 · 1 hr 5 min
Have you ever wondered how a simple backyard garden can grow into a thriving YouTube channel that inspires gardeners everywhere? In this episode, Jennifer sits down with Claudia of In The Garden with Claudia, a Zone 8b gardener in Oregon who transformed a small suburban space into a blooming cut flower haven. What began as a creative outlet during the pandemic soon became a beloved YouTube channel where gardeners turn for honest tips, beautiful garden tours, and a dose of encouragement. Claudia…
Ep.77: Flower Farming & Floral Design in Montana: The Flower Hat Story with Julio Freitas
Ep 77 · Nov 19, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min
Have you ever wondered what it really takes to build a creative and meaningful life in the floral world, especially when your journey starts far from where you end up? In this episode, we are joined by Julio Freitas of The Flower Hat, a Montana-based floral designer and flower farmer whose work has influenced and inspired thousands. Julio shares how he went from hotel management to running a thriving floral design studio and one acre flower farm, and how following small sparks of curiosity event…
Ep.76: How to Sell Your Flowers with Lennie Larkin of Flower Farming for Profit
Ep 76 · Nov 11, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min
Have you ever wondered how to confidently sell your flowers and build a thriving flower business? In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, host Jennifer Gulizia sits down with Lennie Larkin, flower farmer, educator, and founder of Flower Farming for Profit. Lennie shares her expert advice on pricing, mindset, and how to approach flower sales with clarity and confidence. Tune in to Episode 76 to learn: How to know when you’re ready to start selling your flowers The biggest myths about flo…
Ep.75: Gratitude in the Garden: The Five Petals That Root Us Through Every Season
Ep 75 · Nov 8, 2025 · 19 min
As another growing season comes to a close, Jennifer invites you to pause and reflect on the power of gratitude. In this solo episode, Jennifer shares how gratitude can carry us through each stage of growth, from the early seeds of an idea to the quiet rest of winter. She looks back on this past year of farming with honesty and perspective, offering gentle reminders that growth often happens in the unseen moments. Through her reflections, Jennifer encourages you to find gratitude not only in the…
Ep.74: Nicole Pitt of Flower Hill Farm: Growing Through Change and Finding Strength in Every Season
Ep 74 · Nov 4, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
In this heartfelt conversation, Jennifer sits down with Nicole Pitt, the flower farmer and creative behind Flower Hill Farm and Boon Street Nursery in upstate New York. Nicole is also the voice and heart behind the popular Flower Hill Farm YouTube channel, where she shares her authentic journey as a farmer, creator, and community builder. Nicole opens up about how life’s unexpected seasons have shaped her perspective, what it means to grow through change, and how the flower community has support…
Ep.73: Journey to Bloom: Learning to Be Present in Every Season
Ep 73 · Oct 25, 2025 · 18 min
As the flowers fade and the farm quiets down for winter, Jennifer reflects on what this past year of rebuilding her farm has taught her about patience, gratitude, and growth. Inspired by the timeless reminder that “it’s not the destination, it’s the journey,” she shares how slowing down and being present has brought new meaning to the work of tending both the land and the heart. This episode is an invitation to pause and reflect, to notice the beauty in what’s already growing, to find joy in the…
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