The Backyard Bouquet Podcast: Cut Flower Farming Podcast for Flower Farmers & Backyard Gardeners

Ep. 99: Sustainable Floristry and Foam Free Design with T.J. McGrath

T.J. McGrath spent years in advertising, marketing, and retail before he ever touched a flower professionally. He was one of nine kids and never had a garden growing up.

Ep.98: Ellen Frost: The Florist Who Went All In on Local Flowers

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,

Ep. 97 Erin Clark of Muddy Hill Flower Farm: Growing 5,000 Dahlias in Snohomish County

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 l

Ep. 96: Growing Regenerative Cut Flowers in a Vineyard with Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich of Cluster Flock Farms

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 doin

Ep.95: Soil Health for Flower Farmers with Jen Aron of Blue Raven Farm

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

Ep.94: Graeme Corbett on Life in Bloom: From TV to a Cutting Garden in Kent

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, th

Ep.93: Should Flower Farmers Be Using AI?

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

Ep. 92: Growing Tulips & Dahlias in Holland with FAM Flower Farm

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 Keukenho

Episode 91: Dahlia Hybridizing with Kristine Albrecht of Santa Cruz Dahlias

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. Fro

Ep. 90: Sarah Raven, The Woman Who Changed How We Grow Flowers

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

Ep. 89: Flower Farming in Australia's Barossa Valley with Katie Arena

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 F

Ep. 88: Farming as Meditation: What Mindfulness Taught Chelsea Willis About Growing Flowers

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, Oreg

Ep. 87: Jenny Rae Swan: Ten Years of Flowers, Failures, and Finding Joy

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 on

Summit Speaker Series: Kamille Scellick, Kamille's Flowers

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 el

Summit Speaker Series: Charlotte Smith, The Marketing & Mindset Coach for Farmers

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 wi

Summit Speaker Series: Heather Cain on Selling Dahlias to Florists

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 sha

Summit Speaker Series: Marryn Mathis on Selling Out Your Dahlia Tuber Sale

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

Episode 86: From Backyard Dahlias to 4,000 Plants: Building Sweet Bloom Farm with Melissa Stewart

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 journe

Ep. 85: Growing & Breeding Dahlias at Scale: Inside Florelie Flower Farm in Australia

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 Ba

Ep. 84: Growing Cut Flowers in Small Spaces: Community, Education & Local Blooms with Fawn Rueckert

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