The Backyard Bouquet Podcast: Cut Flower Farming Podcast for Flower Farmers & Backyard Gardeners
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Ep.100: Arnold Wittkamp of Thursd: Inside the Global Flower Industry
October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minAbout 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…
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Ep. 99: Sustainable Floristry and Foam Free Design with T.J. McGrath
September 3, 2026 · 1 hr 13 minT.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…
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Ep.98: Ellen Frost: The Florist Who Went All In on Local Flowers
August 12, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minSome 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…
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Ep. 97 Erin Clark of Muddy Hill Flower Farm: Growing 5,000 Dahlias in Snohomish County
July 3, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minSome 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…
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Ep. 96: Growing Regenerative Cut Flowers in a Vineyard with Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich of Cluster Flock Farms
June 4, 2026 · 1 hr 12 minJocelyn 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…
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Ep.95: Soil Health for Flower Farmers with Jen Aron of Blue Raven Farm
May 14, 2026 · 1 hr 12 minToday'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…
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Ep.94: Graeme Corbett on Life in Bloom: From TV to a Cutting Garden in Kent
April 30, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minWhat 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…
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Ep.93: Should Flower Farmers Be Using AI?
April 25, 2026 · 56 minI'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…