Slow Flowers Podcast

Recent Episodes

Episode 703: The New Art of Paper Flowers with Quynh Nguyen of Pink & Posey

Posted February 12, 2025 • 00:57:32

https://youtu.be/Qr-Di1slgMQ?si=sHuKvg69KD_g4MIf Join Quynh Nguyen, the paper artist behind Pink and Posey, as she shares her decade-long journey in...

Episode 702: Sustainable Floral Design and its History, with Per Benjamin – author, World Cup Winner, and florist for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies

Posted February 5, 2025 • 00:35:24

https://youtu.be/xo0eJsPkCKQ?si=JQMfrx44CujdC8ys Last weekend I was invited to Vancouver, British Columbia, where two floral luminaries, Hitomi Gilliam...

Episode 701: Meet Mother-Daughter Duo Kim Urso and Kylie Pack of Yellow Petal Farm, Nevada’s Small-Business Agriculture Award Recipients for 2024

Posted January 29, 2025 • 00:49:36

https://youtu.be/7SxS3vDHrQo?si=EkE5x41RdrS5V0qn Showcasing floral agriculture as a valuable farm crop in an area surrounded by ranches and alfalfa...

Episode 700: How Sue Dykstra and Kelly Lewis of Michigan’s Creekside Growers transitioned a 25-year-old retail plant nursery into a cut flower farm with year-round production

Posted January 22, 2025 •

https://youtu.be/cHpC0UiCDzA?si=fdpuerpqG-mQ63Xk Experienced plantswoman Sue Dykstra has operated nurseries for decades. She opened Creekside Growers...

Episode 699: Building a Flower Farm Centered Around Floral Tourism with Misty Vanderweele of All Dahlia’d Up Flower Farm in Palmer, Alaska

Posted January 15, 2025 • 00:46:56

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czmwuwa6XG4&feature=youtu.be Yes, you can grow gorgeous cut flowers in Alaska. Just ask Misty Vanderweele, anAlaska...