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The Backyard Bouquet Podcast: Cut Flower Farming Podcast for Flower Farmers & Backyard Gardeners

Jennifer Gulizia of The Flowering Farmhouse

A podcast for flower farmers, gardeners, and cut flower growers who are growing more than just flowers.Hosted by Jennifer Gulizia of The Flowering Farmhouse, The Backyard Bouquet shares inspiring conversations and expert tips from the fields and gardens of cut flower farmers and home growers.Whether you"re planting your first backyard bed or running a thriving flower farm, each episode offers practical growing advice, heartfelt stories, and the encouragement to cultivate beauty, joy, and

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Ep.100: Arnold Wittkamp of Thursd: Inside the Global...

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2026/10/01

About eighty percent of the flowers sold in this country are imported, and I have said for years that local growers are not competing with each other, we are competing with that eighty percent. So this week I wanted to understand it better, from someone who knows it from the inside.Arnold Wittkamp is the founder of Thursd, the global online magazine for the flower and plant industry, and he came to it after thirty five years in the trade that started on the floating flower market in Amsterdam when

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73:13

Ep. 99: Sustainable Floristry and Foam Free Design...

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2026/09/03

T.J. McGrath spent years in advertising, marketing, and retail before he ever touched a flower professionally. He was one of nine kids and never had a garden growing up. Then his partner told him he was miserable, pointed him toward a little shop with a flower cooler two towns over, and everything changed.Today T.J. runs an entirely foam free studio in New Jersey, grows his own flowers at a cutting garden called Jardin de Buis, and teaches designers around the world how to work without single use

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69:08

Ep.98: Ellen Frost: The Florist Who Went All In on...

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2026/08/12

Some of the most beautiful lives begin by accident.Ellen Frost was gifted a bag of tulip bulbs for her wedding. She had never planted a thing. She read the directions, put them in the ground, and when they came up that spring, something in her shifted. She grew up in a working class town in Buffalo with no connection to flowers or gardens or nature, and yet that one small spring miracle set the course for everything that came next.Today Ellen runs Local Color Flowers in Baltimore, one of the early

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Ep. 97 Erin Clark of Muddy Hill Flower Farm: Growing...

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2026/07/03

Some stories start with a grand plan. Erin Clark's started with five dahlias and a need to get outside.In 2020, home with a new baby and a world gone quiet, Erin went looking for an outlet. She found it in a 60-square-foot patch of dirt. A neighbor walked by, saw her planting, and the next day her husband gifted Erin a whole tray of tubers. That neighbor turned out to be a dahlia hybridizer who lived right around the corner. That small act of generosity grew into Muddy Hill Flower Farm, where Erin

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Ep. 96: Growing Regenerative Cut Flowers in a...

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2026/06/04

Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich plants peonies, daffodils, and alliums underneath her grape vines, and she has quadrupled the value of every linear foot of her vineyard by doing it.She runs Cluster Flock Farms and Vineyard on twenty-five acres in Husum, Washington, where she grows wine grapes for some of the best winemakers in the Columbia Gorge, raises chickens and ducks and geese, runs flower subscriptions and a flower stand on Highway 141, and books a la carte wedding florals. She is also a queer

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Ep.95: Soil Health for Flower Farmers with Jen Aron...

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2026/05/14

Today's guest is the woman I call when I have a real soil question.Jen Aron is a regenerative farmer and soil agronomist at Blue Raven Farm in Corbett, Oregon, and she has spent the last decade quietly proving that soil is its own ecosystem with its own voice. In this episode we walk through what is actually happening beneath our feet, why compost may not be the answer you have been told it is, and the mantra she has taught me to repeat when farming feels too slow: trust and stay the course.In this

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Ep.94: Graeme Corbett on Life in Bloom: From TV to a...

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2026/04/30

What does it actually look like to leave one career behind and walk into the one that's been waiting for you?In this episode, Jennifer sits down with Graeme Corbett, the grower and storyteller behind Bloom & Burn, just weeks after the release of his brand new book Life in Bloom. Graeme spent years working in television in London, casting contestants for shows like The Voice and Celebrity Big Brother, before flowers found him. He talks about the long line of side projects that almost worked, the

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Ep.93: Should Flower Farmers Be Using AI?

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2026/04/25

I've been using AI on my flower farm for over a year, and up until recently, I've only told a handful of people. Today I'm opening a conversation I haven't heard many in our industry having. It's a conversation every farmer deserves to be part of, whether you end up using AI or not.In this solo episode, I share what I actually use AI for in my business, what I refuse to touch, and the ethical questions I've been living with: the data centers threatening the Hood River watershed, the training data

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Ep. 92: Growing Tulips & Dahlias in Holland with FAM...

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2026/04/23

There are some places on earth that flower people put on a bucket list and never quite cross off. Holland's flower bulb region is one of them. The fields outside Keukenhof, where tulips bloom in waves of color every spring and tourists from around the world stop their cars on the side of the road just to take a picture. For Linda and Marlies of FAM Flower Farm, that landscape is daily life.Linda and Marlies grew up as friends in middle school, both surrounded by flowers. Linda married Henk, a tulip

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Episode 91: Dahlia Hybridizing with Kristine Albrecht...

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2026/04/16

There are people who grow dahlias, and then there are people who spend two decades quietly shaping what dahlias can become. Kristine Albrecht is one of those people.From a weed-choked quarter acre in Santa Cruz, California, Kristine has built an extraordinary breeding program, growing 1,500 seedlings a year and selecting only about 50 to carry forward. Her cultivars (all marked with the K.A. prefix) have won some of the highest honors in the dahlia world, including multiple Daryl Hart Awards and the

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Ep. 90: Sarah Raven, The Woman Who Changed How We...

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2026/04/08

She left medicine to grow flowers at her kitchen table. Thirty years later, Sarah Raven has written fourteen books, built a garden empire at Perch Hill, and changed how a generation thinks about cut flowers.In this episode, Jennifer sits down with Sarah to talk about her journey from wildflower-obsessed child to one of the most respected voices in the gardening world. They dig into the science of cutting (and why your garden actually gets better when you harvest from it), the magic of dahlia

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Ep. 89: Flower Farming in Australia's Barossa Valley...

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2026/03/26

She started with zero qualifications, a personal trainer husband, and six dahlia tubers from the hardware store. Now Katie and her husband Rob run Little Lyndoch Flower Farm in Australia's Barossa Valley, growing just three crops on under an acre, and building a business that actually brings them joy.In this episode, Katie shares how they sold everything during COVID to fund the farm, why growing fewer crops made them more profitable, and what it really looks like to build something from the ground

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Ep. 88: Farming as Meditation: What Mindfulness...

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2026/03/17

Chelsea Willis is the kind of farmer who notices the frogs in the dahlias.She's the owner of Sweet Delilah Farm on Sauvie Island, just 15 minutes outside Portland, Oregon. But her path to farming wasn't traditional. With a background in psychology and youth counseling, Chelsea originally wanted to find a way to get young people out on the land, because she saw how much easier it was for them to open up when their hands were busy and their feet were in the dirt.Then a piece of land became available

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Ep. 87: Starting and Scaling a Flower Farm: Jenny Rae...

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2026/02/26

In Episode 87 of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, Jennifer sits down with Jenny Rae Swan, founder of Flowerwell, a cut flower farm and floral design studio in Rochester, New York.As a first-generation farmer, Jenny Rae didn’t grow up in agriculture, but she followed her pull toward flowers and built Flowerwell from a small plot on a neighboring blueberry farm into a thriving flower farm and design business. In this conversation, she shares what it really looks like to start a flower farm without a

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Summit Speaker Series: Kamille Scellick, Kamille's...

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2026/02/26

If you've ever looked at a dahlia and wondered "what if I could create my own variety?" Kamille is the person you need to learn from. Her session is unlike anything else at the summit. She's taking us on the journey of a seedling from its first bloom to its official debut and showing how the art of hybridizing is so much more than science.It's about mentorship, community, and opening your garden to others. What I love about Kamille's approach is that she believes the most beautiful varieties come

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Summit Speaker Series: Charlotte Smith, The Marketing...

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2026/02/24

Charlotte is a 5th generation farmer and mindset coach and there's a reason she's one of our first speakers on Day 1 of The Profitable Dahlia Summit. Everything starts with mindset. You can learn every strategy in the world for selling dahlias, but if you don't believe you're worth charging for them, none of it matters.Charlotte is going to get your head right so you can take full advantage of every single session that follows. She's tackling the "broke farmer trap," the pricing guilt, the scarcity

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Summit Speaker Series: Heather Cain on Selling...

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2026/02/23

In this bonus episode, I'm sharing my Instagram Live conversation with Heather Cain of Petal Pink Flower Farm. We talked all about selling dahlias to florists and she shared so much that I know you're going to want to hear her full session at the summit.Have you ever thought about selling your dahlias to florists but weren't sure where to start? What do they actually expect? How do you price for wholesale? How do you even approach them?Heather is answering all of it at the Profitable Dahlia Summit

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Summit Speaker Series: Marryn Mathis on Selling Out...

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2026/02/23

In this bonus episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcst, I'm sharing my Instagram Live conversation with Marryn Mathis of The Farmhouse Flower Farm. We talked about getting ready for her tuber sale season, how it feels like a total rollercoaster, and some of Marryn's favorite dahlias this year. Marryn is speaking at the Profitable Dahlia Summit on March 4th and she's teaching how to host a dahlia tuber sale that sells out in a single day.Grab your summit ticket at the link in the show notes. Tickets

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Episode 86: From Backyard Dahlias to 4,000 Plants:...

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2026/02/17

In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, I’m joined by Melissa Stewart of Sweet Bloom Farm, a boutique dahlia farm in Battle Ground, Washington.Melissa’s journey began the way so many of ours do, with a few mystery dahlias from a garden center and a spark she couldn’t ignore. What started as six blooming plants in her suburban backyard quickly grew into 20 varieties… then 50… then 100… and eventually into a two-acre farm growing 4,000 dahlias.In this conversation, we talk about: Scaling

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Ep. 85: Growing & Breeding Dahlias at Scale: Inside...

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2026/02/06

In this episode of The Backyard Bouquet Podcast, we’re heading south to Australia to visit Florelie, a small-scale but highly productive specialty cut flower farm near Ballarat, Victoria.Jennifer is joined by flower farmer and dahlia breeder Lorelie Merton, who shares how a gifted bunch of homegrown peonies sparked a journey that led her from speech pathology to full-time flower farming. Today, Florelie grows flowers on just 2.5 acres of a 20-acre property, with 20,000 dahlias, a robust dahlia

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