From horses to cows to flowers of her own, Kate from Blühen Acres Flowers is sharing her story this week. Kate has a fun story about making something for herself and some great product ideas that go beyond the standard "market bouquets". I'm sure you'll enjoy her story as much as I did! Interview with BlUHEN ACRES: What circumstances lead you to start your farm? My family an[...]
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Read Part 1 HERE We’ve all been there, staring down a piece of land covered in weeds and grass, wondering where to begin. Cultivating soil is work. So much work. Conventional growing uses tillers, plows and herbicide, but is that the best we can do? What is healthiest for our land? Until a couple months ago I was 100% anti tilling. Actually, more like 88.7 percent. You see, while[...]
Sometimes things that should be self-explanatory to me, just aren’t. It was the summer of 2015 and I had this crazy idea of starting a flower farm. I was already obsessed with gardening and had even worked in a greenhouse but there was still a huge gap in what I wanted to do and what I already knew how to do. This is how I found myself typing into Google, “how to turn a hay field int[...]
You’ve decided to start a flower farm… so now what? Guess what friends, I am in the exact same spot. There are so many things running through my brain at the moment that taking a nap seems easier than working most days. Like I’ve mentioned before, we moved from Iowa to New Mexico last year. I got to grow a few vegetables and some calendula last summer, b[...]