341. Vegtables Love Flowers | Lisa Ziegler Returns | Online Flower Farmer Courses You Will Love

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Jonathan & Megan Leiss: The No-Till Micro-Scale Flower Farm - available anytime

Lisa Ziegler: Flower Farming School Online: The Basics, Annual Crops, Marketing, and More! - Registration Opens October 2020

Steve & Gretel Adams: Growing Cut-Flower Crops in Hoop and Greenhouses - Registration: November 16-20, 2020

Jennie Love: The Wedding Process - Registration is only open October 1-5, 2020

Ellen Frost: Florist School Online: Growing Your Business with Local Flower

Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty

Welcome to the Green Organic Garden. It is Friday, August 21st, 2020.I have the most amazing guest on the line, she was guest number 2, she came back after that and today she is here to dazzle you after her 3rd book called Vegetables Love Flowers to here is Lisa Ziegler.

Thank you so much, Jackie. It is so my pleasure to be here and really, I do remember now that I was number two, that was a long time ago. Wasn't it?

Welcome back, tell. I do have a lot of new listeners since December. And so tell them a little bit about you because maybe they haven't heard much about you.

Urban Flower Farmer

Sure. Thanks. So I, if you can't tell from my accent, I am kind of in the South, I'm on the coast of Virginia. I'm in Southeastern Virginia and I am an urban flower farmer.

My little three acre farm is right in the middle of the city. Literally I'm surrounded by 200,000 residents and my place. Although when I first, my first half of my career, I only had an acre and a quarter totally, including where my home was.That's now up to almost three acres and I have no hoophouses.

The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers

Everything I do is grown outdoors in a garden or a field. And, you know, I started farming in 1998, like so many other people after reading Lynn Byczynski's book, the Flower Farmer and just hit the ground running because I'm such a follower, meaning I really followed her instructions. I think it helped me to be successful right out of the gate.

And when you're successful out of the gate, it helps you just to keep on going after it, you know, not everybody is like us, Jackie, where you were...