Seed starting with soil blocking from beginning to end  We use the soil blocking method of seed starting. My experience has been that once equipped with a soil blocker tool, all you add each year are seeds and blocking mix. What drew my initial interest was that 40...
Week 1: Before you Start Seeds I am so looking forward to spending Seed Starting Saturdays with you! I hope that these weekly videos will help guide you and let you know that we don't always do it right either. Having blunders and failures is just part of gardening...
Steve & Gretel Answer Your Questions  What are Steve and Gretel harvesting and planting now?  Meet Student Jonalyn of Blossom Lane Farm  Meet Student Wanda of Fox Hollow Peonies in Alaska  Catch Up with SMFF Meet Student Wendy Brubaker of Morningside Meadows...
We are pleased to share the article, The Evolution of No-Till Practices on Spring Forth Farm, that Jonathon Leiss a Gardener's Workshop Instructor, wrote for Growing for Market. TGW is a proud partner of Growing for Market and believes in their mission to educate...
Did you know that lisianthus is a cool-season hardy annual? Also called a Cool Flower. She is a stand-alone in the Cool Flower lineup because she blooms in summer, unlike the rest of the CF that typically bloom in spring. For my first 10 years of farming, I planted...
How Ellen's course will help your business Learn more about Ellen's online course:Â Growing Your Business with Local Flower Sourcing
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This is a series of social media post I did over a period of a week on zinnias. I hope you enjoy them as much as our friends over there did. Anybody else tapping their toe wanting flowers? Add in my obsession with green and I’m getting restless! I’m remembering this...
I've tried to not take my gardening lifestyle for granted, but I think it has happened. Reading and hearing the struggles of others trying to grow a flower garden, I’m realizing that I have just been assuming that everyone lives with a garden like I do. I was wrong. I...
Have we met? My name is Lisa Mason Ziegler, welcome! It is so great to connect with you here. I’m an urban flower farmer, teacher, author, and online course publisher. My little business has gone through so much change and growth in the past 22 years that I can...
