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

This book is a great read for someone new to the flower business. As someone without a green thumb, I have been inspired to start my own seedlings this year for the first time ever. My husband the constant gardener has even picked up a tip or two. This book answered many of my questions about how to get our small organic farm business off the ground, and most especially if this is a possibility for us to think about and something to put our energy into. Lynn Byczynski answered questions about how to start, what plants to start with, how we will need to market our flowers and many other basic questions. If you are thinking about the flower business this book is full of valuable info.

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

Acre-for-acre, flowers are the most profitable--as well as the most beautiful--crop on the farm. In The Flower Farmer expert flower grower Lynn Byczynski provides a complete introduction to raising a cornucopia of cut flowers for home use and for sale to retail customers, florists, and other markets.

The book offers detailed, manageable plans for flower growing on a scale ranging from a backyard border to a half-acre commercial garden. It will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers, including:

Home gardeners who want growing tips from professionals, so that they can enjoy an abundance of flowers year-round in fresh and dried bouquets

Passionate gardeners and small-scale growers who want to raise and sell cut flowers in season for additional income

Small commercial farmers who want to increase farm revenue or even make a living from selling field-grown, specialty cut flowers.

The Flower Farmer provides a clear, realistic look at both the benefits and the challenges of growing flowers organically for local markets. Chapters include information on:

The best varieties of cut flowers--an A-Z list of more than one hundred recommended annuals and perennials, spotlighting the cultivars that are grown by professional flower farmers

How to cut, store, and preserve flowers for long-lasting beauty

How to dry flowers for crafting or for a dried-flower business

Flower-arranging basics from a designer's perspective

Extending the season with woody shrubs and trees

Marketing options for commercial growers, including sales at farmer's markets, supermarkets, florists, and wholesalers.

Sprinkled throughout are profiles of successful flower farmers--from Vermont to California, Texas to Wisconsin--each of them providing a unique perspective proving that growing flowers can be as profitable as it is satisfying.

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