Well-marketed cut flowers can net existing farms an increase in income per acre compared to traditional vegetables, according to Robin Trott, a seasoned Extension educator at the University of ...

STAUNTON — Bruno the dog barrels through the fields of flowers just to plop down on a patch of grass and roll on his back waiting for belly rubs. Erin Wright has found her own oasis in a little pocket ...

As Deanna Kitchen worked in her garden in the summer of 2010, cutting an unexpected bounty of late-blooming sweet peas, she realized she had more blooms than she could use. A lot more. So, she decided ...

Molly Gaeckle started her flower farm sowing just a few rows in the backyard garden of a small rental house in Minneapolis. Eight years later, her cut flower operation, Northerly Flora, has grown to ...

FAIRFIELD — Illinois Extension educators are teaming up with Blessed Blooms Flower Farm & Market in Fairfield, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois Summer Twilight Series to share information about cut ...

Black farmers account for 1.4 percent of the farming industry in the US. After noticing this underrepresentation working in the field, Shanice Fleming, owner of Queenz Cut Flower Farm — a division of ...

WESTFIELD, N.Y. — Flowers have always been a must-have for private events at Alchemy Wine Bar in Hamburg. A new purchase will allow owners Nicole Casell and Anne McIntosh to add fresh-cut flowers of ...

Once customers make the connection between the flowers, the farmers, and the seasons, says Oliver, they develop a relationship with those flowers, which become more special. Oliver says she is working ...