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Time is money, and for flower farmers that is a particularly accurate statement. There are only so many hours in a day, and although farmers in general are known to be hard-working people with grueling schedules, saving time is important.

More importantly, time is also about effort and efficiency. The more time, effort and stress that comes from flower farming, the higher the risk of burnout, getting injured or sick, and the less sustainable it becomes in the long term.

To save you some time (and work!), I wanted to share some things we’ve learned over the years to make our flower farming business more efficient

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How to Grow Orlaya for the Cutting Garden (and Floral Design)

Orlaya is the funny name for a beautiful flower that we weren’t growing.

I wasn’t convinced initially that we should grow it - it was an umbellifer much like Queen Anne’s Lace (Chocolate Lace Flower) and Ammi and fennel, all of which we were growing already and had good success with.

On the other hand, there were a couple things that (after discussing it with other growers - we’re the worst at enabling each other in growing too many varieties of flowers!) had me excited about orlaya

Book Review: The Pottery Gardener by Arthur Parkinson

One of my favorite books has been Arthur Parkinson’s ‘The Pottery Gardener’. If you’re not aware of Arthur Parkinson, he is a young British gardener whose love of gardening, fancy chickens, use of dust bins as planters, cut flowers, adorable sketches and constant references to ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ make him quite endearing and interesting.