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Nurturing a Winter Wonderland: My Essential Flower Farming Practices
As winter settles in, many people tuck away their gardening gloves and wait for spring. But for flower farmers like me, winter isn’t a time to step back—it’s an opportunity to lay the groundwork for next season’s blooms. Here at Ross Flower Farm in the beautiful Skagit Valley of Washington, I’ve come to embrace winter as a season of preparation, care, and quiet anticipation. There’s something deeply rewarding about tending to my flower farm in the crisp air, knowing that each small effort now will bring bursts of color in just a few months. So let’s grab a warm drink, bundle up, and dig into the ways you can nurture…
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Optimizing Seed Planning for a Flourishing 2025 Flower Season
As a growing flower farmer, every season is a new opportunity to learn, refine, and improve. With each passing year, I discover more about what works best for my farm, and 2025 is no exception. This year, I’m taking a more intentional approach to seed planning by expanding my seed inventory tracking and fine-tuning my sowing schedule. My goal is to make well-informed decisions about when and how to start seeds, setting my flowers up for success from the very beginning. Streamlining My Seed Inventory I started by enhancing my existing seed inventory spreadsheet, adding more details to ensure I capture everything I need to know at a glance. From…
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Finding My Way Back: Grief, Healing, and Moving Forward
How does one begin to express themselves after experiencing the deepest and most difficult loss of their life? I suppose I’ll start with the name of the grief I’ve been navigating, so you have a foundation to understand the rest of this post. Complicated Grief “In complicated grief, painful emotions are so long-lasting and severe that you have trouble recovering from the loss and resuming your own life.” Let’s get into it. The last time I wrote a blog post, I had just learned that my ex-husband was missing. He hadn’t been seen since the beginning of the month. The moment I found out, I reached out to his twin…
Growing with passion and a deep hunger to learn.
