Flower Farming for Profit

2024-01-25 Business & Economics

Author : Lennie Larkin
Release : 2024-01-25
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 769/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Flower Farming for Profit written by Lennie Larkin. This book was released on 2024-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With practical, step-by-step instructions and on-the-ground examples at every scale, Flower Farming for Profit is a comprehensive, beautiful guide to achieving profitability as a cut flower farmer. When Lennie Larkin set out to become a flower farmer, she found all sorts of resources about growing flowers but a scarcity of reliable information on how to build a profitable cut flower business. How do you create efficient systems and adequately value your own time and effort through your pricing? When and how should you consider scaling up your farm? How can you make doing what you love support you financially? In Flower Farming for Profit, Larkin answers these questions—and many, many more. With instructive lessons and savvy business tips from her own and other successful farms around the world, she explores: • The diverse challenges of both wholesale and retail sales channels, from florists and farm stands to farmers markets • Streamlining weddings for the farmer-florist, from communications to floral design • Efficient recordkeeping and bookkeeping • Steps for conducting your own cost-of-production analysis • Marketing and growth strategies • Business planning, goal setting, and making financial projections • Crop planning based on local climatic conditions, market demand, and sales projections The cut flower industry continues to experience wild growth. To successfully do what they love while expanding the market for sustainably produced flowers, new and experienced farmers alike must deliberately step back from the field and into the office. Flower Farming for Profit is a one-of-a-kind guide to creating the type of numbers-driven business that will allow individual farms to prosper and local flower economies to thrive.

Don't Panic

2020-02-11

Author : Sarah Adams
Release : 2020-02-11
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Don't Panic written by Sarah Adams. This book was released on 2020-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible, visually engaging, and absolutely packed with key information, this book is a "must have" for market farmers, gardeners, and small business owners specializing in local market sales. From established growers reassessing existing operations, to dreamers simply planning for the day they can finally make the jump, DON'T PANIC: A Business Guide to Small Scale Cut Flower Farming is an essential tool in creating a solid, sustainable plan for your market farming business. Written from the perspective of Alberta Girl Acres' owner Sarah Adams, a communications and marketing professional who left it all behind to jump into the business of cut flower farming, DON'T PANIC: A Business Guide to Small Scale Cut Flower Farming details all the ins and outs of starting a small scale cut flower business. Including chapters such as "The Dream", "The Reality", "The Plan", "Branding and Key Messaging", "Communications", "Production", "Identifying Your Market", "Marketing", "Operations & Management", "Financials", plus pages and pages of valuable tips, useful guides, and handy resources. "I am quite certain this book will find a wider audience than those just interested in small scale flower, fruit, and produce production. It offers well presented information for any small business startup. Sarah's approach is so honest, friendly and engaging, and the book such a visual delight that many startups and small business owners will find it irresistible." - Gary Linford, President & Program Director, ReGeneration Family Business Transitions, Inc. This is a "revised and expanded" edition of the 2018 release of DON'T PANIC: A Business Guide to Small Scale Cut Flower Farming: Year One, which was released as a limited run in March 2018, and sold out within 30 days. This edition is a response to the overwhelmingly positive reviews, and ongoing requests to make another edition available. Now packed with even more information, and available to a vastly wider audience!

The Flower Farmer

2008-02-22 Business & Economics

Author : Lynn Byczynski
Release : 2008-02-22
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 657/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Flower Farmer written by Lynn Byczynski. This book was released on 2008-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From taking cuttings to winning new customers, this is the guide to growing beautiful organic flowers for enjoyment or profit Over 75,000 copies sold! The first edition of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers helped thousands of small growers start successful cut-flower businesses. This expanded and thoroughly revised second edition has become equally influential for backyard novices and experienced growers alike. New sections in this edition include: Utilizing greenhouses Recommendations for flower cultivars Post-harvest handling Also updated is the acclaimed resource directory, complete with sources of seeds, plants and supplies, and expert information on organic production under the National Organic Program. For the beginner and backyard gardener, there is an extensive section on the basics, including Variety selection Soil preparation Planting, cultivation & harvest Floral design For the commercial grower, The Flower Farmer, 2nd Edition includes information about: Larger-scale production Advice about selling to florists, wholesalers, and supermarkets Understanding the wedding and farmers market customers This updated edition also includes revised profiles of successful growers, offering behind-the-scenes insight into the operation of some of the most cutting-edge flower farmers in the country. Because of the extensive revisions and enhanced content, The Flower Farmer, 2nd Edition is essential reading for those already in the flower business, as well as those who dream of growing flowers for enjoyment or profit.

The Flower Farmer's Year

2014-10-23 Cut flower industry

Author : Georgie Newbery
Release : 2014-10-23
Genre : Cut flower industry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 331/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Flower Farmer's Year written by Georgie Newbery. This book was released on 2014-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow your own gorgeous flowers that fill your house with scent. Look after the planet by reducing your blooms' air miles.

Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden

2017-03-07 Gardening

Author : Erin Benzakein
Release : 2017-03-07
Genre : Gardening
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 931/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden written by Erin Benzakein. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Amazon Best Seller — Welcome to the farm! The Cut Flower Garden: Erin Benzakein is a florist-farmer, leader in the locaflor farm-to-centerpiece movement, and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm in Washington's lush Skagit Valley. A stunning flower book: This beautiful guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging gorgeous blooms year-round provides readers with vital tools to nurture a stunning flower garden and use their blossoms to create show-stopping arrangements. Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspiration—a book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements organized by season. Find inspiration in this lush flower book: Irresistible photos of Erin's flower farm that showcase exquisite blooms Tips for growing in a variety of spaces and climates Step-by-step instructions for lavish garlands, airy centerpieces, and romantic floral décor for every season If you liked Paris in Bloom, you'll love Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden.

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