Thank you for being so inspiring. I'm a third year flower farmer, and I always feel behind wishing I had a greenhouse, a barn or building especially for my business, and better equipment. You have helped me understand that I can still do it with field grown flowers and perseverance. I'm so happy y'all are successfully rebuilding your farm!
Thank you so much for sharing your story, I recently found your page and have been hooked and going through every video, been inspired more to keep my vision alive. I am based in South Africa and currently building my small scale farm and homestead. Your advice has helped me so much to have a sound mind with taking one month at a time and believing more in those small beginnings. Enjoying the process and a few years from now we will reap the harvest. A simple life doing what I love, farming and homesteading and waking up every day to a field of bright flowers. So excited!! Thank you again for sharing and please keep sharing all the up's and down's!!
Also some questions…since you asked. Do you think the market is getting saturated with all the new flower farms? How did you start marketing your business in the beginning? Thank you!
Just received your beautiful book. Thank you for your inspiration! This is my 1st year flower farming and I'm struggling with how to time planting a variety in order to make bouquets. Also how to know how much to plant. Anyway really enjoy your videos. God bless you both!
Me and my husband just started flower farm last year,I always find your videos so powerful ,please keep sharing your thoughts ,it helps some of us tremendously.
Jen and Adam, Thanks for the video progress report. You learn more from your failures and adversity than you do from your successes! Because of the tornado, you will be the smartest two flower farmers on the planet! Keep your chins up and positive attitude and you will be well rewarded! Churchill said, "we will never, ever give up!" Love your attitude and determination! Rely on each other! You are so inspiring! Congratulations.
Thank you both for sharing your passion and journey! My husband and I are trying to get a little flower farm going. You are correct in that working full time jobs is tough when trying to get the farm going! I know we try to keep a good sense of humor and grace. We appreciate your videos and real talk!
Thank you so glad to see the progress. This is my second year flower farming and I have so much to learn and do. I and my husband also work full time. You are correct I always feel behind and I lost all of my snap dragons this spring to wet feet. Made a mistake where I planted my spring crop and lost a lot. So I had only very few spring flowers. Try try try again.
Oh I love those thoughts feeling behind... even with weather that causes delays....5here is so much to get done, but I am learning to watch how God provides the flowers I need at just the right time. It’s too easy to feel like we are behind.
Christina is bringing the book to me soon, and I can’t wait to read it! I’m a pro at boot strapping, so my peony farm has been started without any loans and I’m looking at selling soon (year or two away). I love love love hearing you both about farming flowers and the business side of it all. Bless you for your knowledge and your commitment to continue! You both are amazing! Love from Alaska!
And, I needed to hear about your lavender failure too! That failure will happen. I am in the same situation with my peony farm and having injury from the winter months. It’s not all loss, but a large slow start and some loss, I don’t think I’ll know the true damage until later. Plans in the works for some major mulching solution to instill every fall going forward. Good luck and I am excited to continue following your story!
Happy belated birthday, Adam! Recently I was with my mom and she was watching storm chaser/tornado videos while I was distracted doing something else. Without looking, I heard you talking about the tornado damage and I told mom your voice sounded familiar. Bam! There you were on the screen and I told her that I knew you. (You can run but you can’t hide.) I was shocked to run across you guys in such a bizarre and tragic way but I’m delighted that I did. I’m so glad you, your fam and the house were okay. I’m so impressed with the farm and all you all have accomplished, twice now. I love being able to watch you and Jen. Makes me feel like you’re back here in TN. 🤗
Congratulations. Your event barn is lovely. Is that pine? We built a barn with pine siding a few years ago and painted it a dark cream color. Wish I had primed the knots first before applying the paint.
About a 1 1/2 months ago, I started following you. I fell in love with all the flowers in several of your videos, and your work. Like y'all we live in an area (Oklahoma) that experiences tornadoes. I wanted to say before continuing on, I'm so.so. sorry your farm was hit with a tornado. Thank goodness you both are okay! It's scary, and stressful....I myself experienced multiple tornadoes, the worst an F5 tornado that hit on May 20, 2013. The good Lord was watching over all of us!! I have a question, I love Zinnia's and want to plant a wide row or two of Zinnia's close to a wild flower patch. Do you recommend direct sowing the Zinnia's, or starting the seeds indoor with grow lights?
I really enjoy and appreciate your videos! FYI, the audio edits were almost seamless in this video, but the frequent video cuts made it hard to watch. Your content is golden though. Keep ‘em coming!
I think my biggest struggle is finding an affordable cooler currently! Also working with shade cloth to cover my dalhias. I've learned they do not like too much sun in the south.
Absolutely love your channel ♥️ thank you for sharing your journey with honesty. Unfortunately many channels try to conform to an expected image. 🌻 farming will always be farming and honesty is honest. 🌱 one question 🤔 you mention getting more plugs, can you recommend a source. As a new flower farmer finding reliable resources can be exhausting. ❤️
Oh my! I love a lot of white too but the natural look is gorgeous! Please don’t paint it! I wish I had happy growing with flowers but didn’t even get one starter out of a dozen flower seeds. 😞
Great video, very informative as always. Glad to see all your progress in the rebuild. One question I have: what tiller did Adam decide to go with? I’m leaning towards a 3-point pto driven tiller for my vegetable garden and flower plots since I’m using a 30-plus year old rear tine tiller. I’m 64 and tiller is roughly half that age and we are both showing signs of wear with age. Ha! Keep up the excellent work! I appreciate all you do and the advice you share!
You and Sunflower Steve both have one, so it’s got to be the one! Thanks again for all you do, I appreciate both of you and the work/information you share.
This’s my first year flower farming. Your videos are some of my favorites! Just received your book - great work. What can you tell me about plugs that keep wanting to bloom too young? Been dead heading but short stems has been a problem.
If you leave them in their trays for too long that could cause issues. Also, potentially soil nutrients. Was there a specific flower that you planted from plugs that you were struggling with?
Re investments- my brother (a carpenter) always says 'buy the best and cry once'. 😊
Love this saying!
Thank you for being so inspiring. I'm a third year flower farmer, and I always feel behind wishing I had a greenhouse, a barn or building especially for my business, and better equipment. You have helped me understand that I can still do it with field grown flowers and perseverance. I'm so happy y'all are successfully rebuilding your farm!
Thank you so much for sharing your story, I recently found your page and have been hooked and going through every video, been inspired more to keep my vision alive. I am based in South Africa and currently building my small scale farm and homestead. Your advice has helped me so much to have a sound mind with taking one month at a time and believing more in those small beginnings. Enjoying the process and a few years from now we will reap the harvest. A simple life doing what I love, farming and homesteading and waking up every day to a field of bright flowers. So excited!! Thank you again for sharing and please keep sharing all the up's and down's!!
Love Adam’s shirt and Jen’s knees. My knees look exactly the same this time of year…the sign of a productive day!
Also some questions…since you asked. Do you think the market is getting saturated with all the new flower farms? How did you start marketing your business in the beginning? Thank you!
We’ll definitely address this Liz!
Just received your beautiful book. Thank you for your inspiration! This is my 1st year flower farming and I'm struggling with how to time planting a variety in order to make bouquets. Also how to know how much to plant. Anyway really enjoy your videos. God bless you both!
Hearing that everyone always feels behind is so helpful! Love the C.F. No shirt, Adam!
Me and my husband just started flower farm last year,I always find your videos so powerful ,please keep sharing your thoughts ,it helps some of us tremendously.
Jen and Adam, Thanks for the video progress report. You learn more from your failures and adversity than you do from your successes! Because of the tornado, you will be the smartest two flower farmers on the planet! Keep your chins up and positive attitude and you will be well rewarded! Churchill said, "we will never, ever give up!" Love your attitude and determination! Rely on each other! You are so inspiring! Congratulations.
The C.F. NO. shirt is FANTASTIC!!!
You two are so inspiring! Much love from NYC
You two are an adorable couple. Glad to have stumbled across this channel! Looking forward to all the pretty flowers.
You guys are the best! You're so amazing, so inspiring and so practically helpful!!!!!!!
Thank you both for sharing your passion and journey! My husband and I are trying to get a little flower farm going. You are correct in that working full time jobs is tough when trying to get the farm going! I know we try to keep a good sense of humor and grace. We appreciate your videos and real talk!
Thank you! Loved reading this sweet comment!
thank you guys 😊 a lot of good advice 👍 I have no problem growing flowers my problem is selling it 😊.
Thank you so glad to see the progress. This is my second year flower farming and I have so much to learn and do. I and my husband also work full time. You are correct I always feel behind and I lost all of my snap dragons this spring to wet feet. Made a mistake where I planted my spring crop and lost a lot. So I had only very few spring flowers. Try try try again.
Oh I love those thoughts feeling behind... even with weather that causes delays....5here is so much to get done, but I am learning to watch how God provides the flowers I need at just the right time. It’s too easy to feel like we are behind.
Bless you
Looking amazing! Such an inspiration for us all ❤️
Sending love and hugs from Barn Yard Blooms in Ontario Canada 🍁 💜 this is great advice!
Christina is bringing the book to me soon, and I can’t wait to read it! I’m a pro at boot strapping, so my peony farm has been started without any loans and I’m looking at selling soon (year or two away). I love love love hearing you both about farming flowers and the business side of it all. Bless you for your knowledge and your commitment to continue! You both are amazing! Love from Alaska!
And, I needed to hear about your lavender failure too! That failure will happen. I am in the same situation with my peony farm and having injury from the winter months. It’s not all loss, but a large slow start and some loss, I don’t think I’ll know the true damage until later. Plans in the works for some major mulching solution to instill every fall going forward. Good luck and I am excited to continue following your story!
Happy belated birthday, Adam! Recently I was with my mom and she was watching storm chaser/tornado videos while I was distracted doing something else. Without looking, I heard you talking about the tornado damage and I told mom your voice sounded familiar. Bam! There you were on the screen and I told her that I knew you. (You can run but you can’t hide.) I was shocked to run across you guys in such a bizarre and tragic way but I’m delighted that I did. I’m so glad you, your fam and the house were okay. I’m so impressed with the farm and all you all have accomplished, twice now. I love being able to watch you and Jen. Makes me feel like you’re back here in TN. 🤗
Hope your doing good, Kristen. Good to hear from you!
👍 Thanks for sharing!
I look forward to every video. Congratulations on your new event barn. God bless 😊
Thank you for your kind words! 🌸💗
Thank you. I love this conversation about resilience. Step by step and knowledge.
Congratulations. Your event barn is lovely. Is that pine? We built a barn with pine siding a few years ago and painted it a dark cream color. Wish I had primed the knots first before applying the paint.
It is and we’ll make sure to prime it first!
I just bought your book! So so excited for it to come in
Thank you! 🌸💗
Soo exciting hearing the progress and thank you for those tips that someday I will start my own flower farm... baby steps!
Yep! Baby steps all the way. Just keep chipping away and working towards your goals 💗
About a 1 1/2 months ago, I started following you. I fell in love with all the flowers in several of your videos, and your work. Like y'all we live in an area (Oklahoma) that experiences tornadoes. I wanted to say before continuing on, I'm so.so. sorry your farm was hit with a tornado. Thank goodness you both are okay! It's scary, and stressful....I myself experienced multiple tornadoes, the worst an F5 tornado that hit on May 20, 2013. The good Lord was watching over all of us!!
I have a question, I love Zinnia's and want to plant a wide row or two of Zinnia's close to a wild flower patch. Do you recommend direct sowing the Zinnia's, or starting the seeds indoor with grow lights?
You can direct sow but you have more control starting in trays
@@PepperHarrow Thank you!
Good advice 🙂 hope you guys had/have good insurance to help protect your income and assets too!
I really enjoy and appreciate your videos! FYI, the audio edits were almost seamless in this video, but the frequent video cuts made it hard to watch. Your content is golden though. Keep ‘em coming!
Love the shirt! You all are such an inspiration ❤🌻
Haha!! That shirt is so perfect. Adam was cracking me up talking about his 0% loans since he doesn’t actually like to spend money. 🤣🤣🤣
@@PepperHarrow 🤣🤣 It's such a fine balance. You have to spend money to make money, but I'm with Adam... it hurts my soul to spend it!
Any suggestions for dealing with prairie dogs?
I think my biggest struggle is finding an affordable cooler currently!
Also working with shade cloth to cover my dalhias. I've learned they do not like too much sun in the south.
We use a cooler with a coolbot. Before we had the cooler, we just built a room and ran an AC in it.
I bought an insulated aluminum trailer w a coolbot. It’s awesome. I can store flowers in the trailer plus haul it to markets.
This is so helpful. Thank you!
Absolutely love your channel ♥️ thank you for sharing your journey with honesty. Unfortunately many channels try to conform to an expected image. 🌻 farming will always be farming and honesty is honest. 🌱 one question 🤔 you mention getting more plugs, can you recommend a source. As a new flower farmer finding reliable resources can be exhausting. ❤️
If you have a tax ID, you can setup an account through Farmer Bailey Plugs. Very good source for some great plant starts.
What tiller did you change to?
Think large-start small.
Oh my! I love a lot of white too but the natural look is gorgeous! Please don’t paint it!
I wish I had happy growing with flowers but didn’t even get one starter out of a dozen flower seeds. 😞
Great video, very informative as always. Glad to see all your progress in the rebuild. One question I have: what tiller did Adam decide to go with? I’m leaning towards a 3-point pto driven tiller for my vegetable garden and flower plots since I’m using a 30-plus year old rear tine tiller. I’m 64 and tiller is roughly half that age and we are both showing signs of wear with age. Ha! Keep up the excellent work! I appreciate all you do and the advice you share!
I got a 48” King Kutter
You and Sunflower Steve both have one, so it’s got to be the one! Thanks again for all you do, I appreciate both of you and the work/information you share.
This’s my first year flower farming. Your videos are some of my favorites! Just received your book - great work.
What can you tell me about plugs that keep wanting to bloom too young? Been dead heading but short stems has been a problem.
If you leave them in their trays for too long that could cause issues. Also, potentially soil nutrients. Was there a specific flower that you planted from plugs that you were struggling with?
@@PepperHarrow
Mostly dianthus
The plugs arrived with blooms back in April. Thanks!
Could you tell me what tiller you have switched to?
King Butter
Are the 0% loans through the USDA, the manufacturer or another source? Thanks so much!
Through the USDA
Please share your newfound tiller knowledge!
We purchased a 48” King Cutter
Adams shirt 😂😂😂
Is the camera moving around? Makes me dizzy.