The Farmer Bailey Blog

3 Porch Farm shares the keys to success with your new Heirloom Mums.

Don’t miss your chance to extend your season and add quintessential autumn beauty to your bouquets.

"Farming is never boring and I don’t think I will ever want to give it up. Finding inspiration in new areas of farming is really what keeps me going."

An important update to Ready to Ship flash sales.

Scott and Jennifer Joray share their top tips for implementing A La Carte Weddings for farmer-florists.

Riah won a copy of Flower Farming for Profit, Lennie Larkin's new guide to growing a successful cut flower business. 

Veteran farmer-florists share their decades of hard-earned insight into growing, marketing, and delivering wedding flowers in this video webinar.

This old-fashioned garden perennial is long-lived, deer resistant, shade-loving and magically appears when absolutely nothing else is blooming.

Grow a customer-focused flower farm business with Lennie's top five tips.

"My farming life got easier, more profitable, and way more fun once I learned to measure what I was doing so that I could improve what I was doing."

Flower Farming for Profit author Lennie Larkin shares her top tips for a great season ahead.

Farmer Bailey is proud to sponsor The Flower Podcast, a deep resource of education and inspiration for flower farmers.

Chand Ahuja of Great Ring Farm won a copy of Flower Farming for Profit, an essential new book for growers.

Think like a plant to grow your best Lisianthus ever!

Voles, gophers and mice, oh my!

Cold weather on the way? Colder than you had hoped or planned for? Colder than you've seen in 30 years? Here are some tips to help your plants survive.

Bloom initiation in Lisianthus is a complicated relationship between day length, light intensity and temperature.

When it comes to using Hellebores as a cut flower, locally grown is always best.

Colin tells us why he ditched bespoke suits for muck boots, what he treasures most about his farmer lifestyle, and his favorite Farmer Bailey crops.

In a striking portrait by photographer Steve Schapiro, King and American political scientist and diplomat Ralph Bunche stand among fellow civil rights leaders wearing vivid flower leis.

Is PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz the color of the year? 

An All-Star team of farmers gathered in Madeira for fellowship and a bit of work.

Taking stock of 2023 success and failures, and looking ahead to 2024 goals and plans.

Plan for the coming year with us, with the help of the new Farmer Bailey Ship Week Calendar.