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 ...

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 ...

ADA, Minn. — Hidden behind rows of trees, sits a half acre of zinnia flowers, showcasing their array of colorful petals dotted in the black soil. While it’s not the typical crop you find in northwest ...

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 ...

The domestic U.S. flower farming market was largely stamped out by cheap import competition in the 1970s and 1980s when flying roses from Ecuador became cheaper than producing them in the States. More ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever experienced that romanticized idea of a flower farm? You’re picking flowers at sunset on a warm summer night, and everything is amazing. Behind those beautiful rows of flowers are people ...