Last year was our first year selling dried flowers, having previously grown fruits and vegetables for farmers' markets, distributors, groceries, restaurants, auctions, etc.

This year, we're expanding the one acre of flowers to include more variety and some herbs.

We use the same methods for growing flowers as we did for vegetables, starting plants in a seed house in February, then moving them to a greenhouse in March. From there they are transplanted into raised beds. Every several days we check the plants for insects or disease, and, if needed, we spray affected plants with pyganic or spinosad, which are OMRI approved for organic growing. Most of the time, there's no need to spray at all. By the end of July, the flowers start blooming.

Once the flowers are blooming, we harvest late morning and bring them into the drying shed to be bunched and hung to dry. When dried, they're ready for bouquet-making and shipment.


Kel