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SLOW FLOWERS with Debra Prinzing

SLOW FLOWERS with Debra Prinzing

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SLOW FLOWERS is about making a conscious, sustainable choice in how you choose flowers. The podcast introduces listeners to the leading voices in the SLOW FLOWERS movement, from the field to the vase. Meet American flower farmers, eco-couture floral designers, innovative Do-It-Yourself designers and pioneering farmer-florists. Debra Prinzing, the leading advocate for American Grown flowers, hosts the conversation and encourages you to join the creative community.

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Episode 669: Making fashion with flowers, in our 10th anniversary celebration of American Flowers Week with five creators of our 2024 botanical couture collection

Published: June 26, 2024, 2:43 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes

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Episode 668: Slow Flowers Summit Preview with Farmer-Florists Melanie Harrington of Dahlia May Flower Farm and Janis Harris of Harris Flower Farm

Published: June 19, 2024, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 42 seconds

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Episode 667: Slow Flowers on the Road a Visit to Dutch Lily Days

Published: June 12, 2024, 1:33 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 665: Home in Bloom with Author, Educator and Floral Artist Ariella Chezar

Published: June 5, 2024, 6:36 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 41 seconds

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Episode 664: A Triple Talent How Sydney Garvey of Flowers by Garveys Gardens blends flower farming, wedding design, and owning a retail flower shop

Published: May 29, 2024, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 663: Designing with Dried Flowers a new book by Hannah Muller of Full Belly Farm and Wreath Room

Published: May 22, 2024, 1:40 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 662: Flower farming meets the retail flower shop with Little Petal Farm

Published: May 15, 2024, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 661: Spring Tune-Up for Florists, Shops, and Studios with Althea Wiles of Rose of Sharon Floral Design Studio

Published: May 8, 2024, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 660: Flower Farming in Los Angeles: Meet a trio of growers behind an upcoming flower farm tour as they discuss the unique character of urban flower farming in Southern California

Published: May 1, 2024, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 659: Designer Leslie Bennett, co-author of Garden Wonderland and founder of Pine House Edible Gardens and Black Sanctuary Gardens

Published: April 24, 2024, 2:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 43 seconds

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Episode 636: Slow Flowers Summit heads to Canada in 2024. Meet Becky Feasby, Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed, and Lourdes Still

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 25 seconds

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Episode 633: Building a Community of Local Flower Farmers Over Pie and Coffee, with Jodi Logue of Moss and Madder Farm

Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 3:24 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 632: Celebrating our 10th Anniversary! From the Slow Flowers Podcast Archives – an Encore of Episode 566 with Joanna Letz of Bluma Flower Farm

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 3:06 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 631: Celebrating our 10th Anniversary! From the Slow Flowers Podcast Archives – an Encore of Episode 529 with David Brunton of Right Field Farm

Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 2:16 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 630: Celebrating our 10th Anniversary! From the Slow Flowers Podcast Archives – an Encore of Episode 475 with Talia Boone of Postal Petals

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes

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Episode 629: Celebrating our 10th Anniversary! From the Slow Flowers Podcast Archives – an Encore of Episode 445 with Mara Tyler of Pennsylvania’s The Farm at Oxford

Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 2:28 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 1 second

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Episode 628: Jennifer Jewell’s love letter to seeds and her new book, “What We Sow”

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 627: Celebrating our 10th Anniversary! From the Slow Flowers Podcast Archives – an Encore of Episode 396 with Whit McClure of Los Angeles-based Whit Hazen

Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 626: Celebrating our 10th Anniversary! From the Slow Flowers Podcast Archives – an Encore of Episode 304 with Janis Harris of Harris Flower Farm in Ontario, Canada

Published: Sept. 6, 2023, 3:20 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 624: Brooklyn in Bloom with Suzanna Cameron of Stems Brooklyn Florist

Published: Aug. 23, 2023, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 613: Island Flower Growers, a cooperative flower hub serving all of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, with president Lorna Jackson and market manager Cara Scott

Published: June 7, 2023, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 611: A conversation with Julie Remy of Fleuris Studio and Blooms and a tour of her prolific cutting garden on Vancouver Island

Published: May 24, 2023, 2:31 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 610: Growing and selling cut flowers in the high desert Rocky Mountain region with Gretchen Langston of Blooms Colorado

Published: May 17, 2023, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 609: Falling in love with a country farm and building a life around flowers with Abby Matson of Diddle & Zen

Published: May 10, 2023, 2:09 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 608: New Crop Pricing Tools with Rooted Farmers’ Amelia Ihlo and Garden State Flower Cooperative’s Leah Ducey

Published: May 3, 2023, 1:19 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes

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Episode 607: From Botanist to Flower Farmer with Kate Watters of Arizona’s Wild Heart Farm

Published: April 26, 2023, 6:56 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 606: The Profitability Sweet Spot for Selling to Wholesale Florists with Jessie Witscher of Vermont’s Understory Farm

Published: April 19, 2023, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 23 seconds

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Episode 605: The Color of Roses with Rose Story Farms’ Danielle Hahn

Published: April 12, 2023, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 604: Sustainable Design for Event Florals with Ingrid Carozzi of Tin Can Studios

Published: April 5, 2023, 4:43 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 603: Slow Pottery for Slow Flowers — Artisan Pottery to pair with Artisan Bouquets

Published: March 29, 2023, 5:19 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 602: Flower Farming for a Cause at What Cheer Flower Farm with Erin Achenbach

Published: March 22, 2023, 4:32 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 601: Meet Rita Feldmann of the Sustainable Floristry Network, a new global education organization for florists

Published: March 15, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 600: Becky Feasby of Prairie Girl Flowers on Florists, Invasive Species, and Protecting the Natural World

Published: March 8, 2023, 9:55 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 599: Sustainable Luxury Floral Design with Susan Chambers of San Francisco’s bloominCouture

Published: March 1, 2023, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 598: Alex Cacciari of Michigan’s Seeley Farm on trialing native perennials for the floral market

Published: Feb. 22, 2023, 6:09 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 597: All about the new Black Florists Fund and a conversation with its founders and first grant recipient

Published: Feb. 15, 2023, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 596: Ellen Seagraves of Chic Floral Design (AIFD and EMC) and president of the Independent Floral Designers Association

Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 7:05 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 595: Debra Prinzing and Robin Avni Present the 2023 Slow Flowers Floral Insights and Industry Forecast

Published: Feb. 1, 2023, 4:34 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 594: Flowers for All with educator and author Susan McLeary

Published: Jan. 25, 2023, 4:27 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 593: Tom Precht and Sarah Daken of Grateful Gardeners, on buying farmland and establishing a new aquaponics greenhouse operation

Published: Jan. 18, 2023, 3:28 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 592: Creating a sustainable, streamlined, and low-stress wedding floral business with Carolyn Kulb of Bloom Poet

Published: Jan. 11, 2023, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 591: Debra Prinzing Reflects on Slow Flowers Society’s 2022 Year in Review

Published: Jan. 4, 2023, 4:55 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 590: Foraged Design with artist and educator Françoise Weeks

Published: Dec. 28, 2022, 12:03 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 38 seconds

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Episode 589: Bellevue Botanical Garden’s Joseph Abken introduces the 2023 Slow Flowers Summit Host Venue

Published: Dec. 21, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 588: Meet Lourdes Still of Masagana Flower Farm in Manitoba – Experience Guide, Flower Grower and Natural Dyer

Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 3:52 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 587: Walking the Talk: Unpacking the Slow Flowers Manifesto and putting our six values into practice for your floral enterprise

Published: Dec. 7, 2022, 4:12 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 586: Flower farming on Hawaii’s Big Island with Christian Ingalls of Daisy Dukes Flower Farm

Published: Nov. 30, 2022, 4:09 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 1 second

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Episode 585: Diane Szukovathy and Dennis Westphall of Jello Mold Farm on the 10-year publication anniversary of The 50 Mile Bouquet

Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 4:04 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 584: Farmer-florist Dee Hall of Mermaid City Flower Farm and founder of Black Flower Farmers

Published: Nov. 16, 2022, 4:28 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 581: Meet Laura Gonzalez of Swallows Secret Garden, a gardener-florist and land steward in Santa Cruz, California

Published: Oct. 26, 2022, 2:41 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 580V: High desert flower farming with Trisha Starkey of Petals and Pages

Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 3:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 36 seconds

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Episode 579: Flower farming with your sister, with Becky Osborne and Kate Munno of Connecticut’s Becky at Appleberry Farm

Published: Oct. 12, 2022, 2:41 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 578: Accidental flower farmers share their roots, with Tracy Yang and Nick Songsangcharntara of JARN Co.

Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 2:43 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 577: Building a home-based cut flower business with Backyard Blooms’ Janet Kramka

Published: Sept. 28, 2022, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 576: Georgia Flower Farm Visit with Rita and Mike Williams of WilMor Farms

Published: Sept. 21, 2022, 2:53 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 575: The Floral Coach’s Amy Balsters shares her bouquet-making philosophy and inspiring business model

Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 3:13 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 574: Fourth-Year Flower Farmer, a virtual tour and visit with Jenny Chantz of Merritt Meadow Flower Farm in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

Published: Sept. 7, 2022, 10:04 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 573: The 50 Mile Bouquet Series with Charles & Bethany Little of Charles Little & Co.

Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 572: Joseph Massie returns the Slow Flowers Podcast to unveil The Flower School, his new beautiful and useful new design book

Published: Aug. 24, 2022, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 571: Sustainable Everyday Flowers — how a retail studio honors its eco values with Kelsey Ruhland of Foxbound Flowers

Published: Aug. 17, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 570: A visit to Blossom & Branch, Briana Bosch’s Colorado Flower Farm

Published: Aug. 10, 2022, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 44 seconds

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Episode 569: Flowers & Photography with Krista Rossow of O’Flora Flower Farm

Published: Aug. 3, 2022, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 567: Portrait of a Local Flower Pioneer, with Seattle Wholesale Growers Market’s General Manager Brad Siebe, including updates about their new ecommerce platform

Published: July 20, 2022, 3:51 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 566: Growing Cut Flowers on an Urban Roof with Joanna Letz of Berkeley’s Bluma Flower Farm

Published: July 13, 2022, 2:55 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 565: Petals and Alpacas at Gholson Gardens in Walla Walla, Washington (Encore Edition)

Published: July 6, 2022, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 564: Meet the Creatives who designed our American Flowers Week 2022 Botanical Couture Collection

Published: June 29, 2022, 1:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 563: Slow Flowers Summit 2022 bonus tours with Sylvia Lukach of Cape Lily Floral and Molly Culver of Molly Oliver Flowers

Published: June 22, 2022, 2:39 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 562: Susan McLeary shares her large-scale, foam-free, floral design installation techniques at the 2021 Slow Flowers Summit (encore presentation)

Published: June 15, 2022, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 39 seconds

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Episode 561: Becky Feasby of Prairie Girl Flowers and IG’s Sustainability Sunday

Published: June 8, 2022, 1:43 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 560: Sourcing and designing with American-grown blooms with Michaela Newheart of FlowerFarm.com

Published: June 1, 2022, 4:06 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 559: Flowers as Artist’s Muse: Meet Ronni Nicole Robinson (Slow Flowers Summit 2022 speaker preview)

Published: May 25, 2022, 1:03 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 558: A pottery studio and cutting garden visit with ceramic artist Frances Palmer (Slow Flowers Summit 2022 speaker preview)

Published: May 18, 2022, 2:24 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 557: How an interior designer expanded into floral design, with Jennifer Driscoll of Redwood Wild Florals

Published: May 11, 2022, 2:28 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 41 seconds

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Episode 556: A floral conversation with Andrea K. Grist of Florasource KC and KC Bloom Hub

Published: May 4, 2022, 2:02 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 555: “Farewell Flowers,” Creating a Sustainable Funeral and Sympathy Practice, with Lori Poliski of Flori LLC, and Tammy Meyers of LORA Bloom

Published: April 27, 2022, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 554: A garden and studio tour with Lorene Edwards Forkner, sharing her new book “Color In and Out of the Garden”

Published: April 20, 2022, 2:41 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 553: Hitomi Gilliam and Gregor Lersch present the FREESIA Challenge, a new focus on Sustainable Floral Design Education

Published: April 13, 2022, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 29 seconds

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Episode 552 (Part Two): Eva Leach, on songwriting as an expression of female empowerment

Published: April 10, 2022, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 552 (Part One): Teresa Rao of Belle Pétale designs with local flowers, floriography and French inspiration

Published: April 7, 2022, 3:07 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes

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Episode 551: Riz Reyes shares his first book: GROW, A Family Guide to Plants and How to Grow Them

Published: March 30, 2022, 1:13 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 550: Celebrate the publication of Black Flora, with author Teresa J. Speight

Published: March 23, 2022, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 21 seconds

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Episode 549: Local Flowers on the National Stage, Starring in a John Deere Commercial with Judd and Shannon Allen of Ohio’s Bloom Hill Farm

Published: March 16, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 548: Flowers – Self Care Made Easy, and more about the new flower promotion campaign with Steve Dionne of CalFlowers

Published: March 9, 2022, 3:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 547: “Small Farm, Big Dreams” with Jennifer and Adam O’Neal of PepperHarrow Farm

Published: March 2, 2022, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 546: Oregon-grown flowers with Bethany Little of Charles Little & Co. and Beth Syphers of Crowley House Farm

Published: Feb. 23, 2022, 3:16 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 545: Valentine’s Day with all-local flowers — live from the top of the Empire State Building with Jaclyn Rutigliano of Hometown Flower Co.

Published: Feb. 16, 2022, 4:14 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 47 seconds

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Episode 498: It’s a family affair with Dru Rivers of Full Belly Farm and Hannah Rose Muller of Full Belly Floral

Published: March 24, 2021, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 39 seconds

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Episode 497: Meet Jill Brooke, floral journalist and creator of Flower Power Daily

Published: March 17, 2021, 4:19 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 13 seconds

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Episode 496 Growing a Slow Flowers Farm-ily – a beautiful story from Perry-winkle Farm, where Mike Perry and Cathy Jones mentor and co-farm with Taij and Victoria Cotten

Published: March 10, 2021, 4:38 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 27 seconds

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Episode 495: A farmer-florist creates a boutique business on a small island. Meet Lindsey Cummins of Dancing Flower Farm

Published: March 3, 2021, 6:05 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 1 second

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Episode 494: How does Rooted Farmers’ marketplace work? An update from founder Amelia Ihlo and insights from farmer-florist Haley Billipp of Eddy Farm and Connecticut Flower Collective

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 4:24 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 493: What is Fleurvana? Join Debra Prinzing’s Conversation with co-founders Shawn Michael Foley and Gina Thresher

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 4:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 492: For Beginning Flower Gardeners, a conversation with authors and podcasters Allison and Sean McManus of Spoken Garden

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 4:49 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 491: The 19-year evolution of a retail florist with Kelly Marie Thompson of Chicago-based Fleur Inc.

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 3:50 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 490: The launch of BLOOM Imprint, Slow Flowers’ new publishing venture, with co-founders Debra Prinzing and Robin Avni

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 489: Fawn Rueckert of Sego Lily Flower Farm, an urban micro farm in Utah

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 6:21 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 25 seconds

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