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Under the Row Covers and Succession Planting
My first episode y’all!!! As I am aligning my thoughts to share with you, I thought I would take you along as my season is already unfolding here. Do you peek under the row covers? I find it to be the scariest thing this farmer can do in mid-winter. Links to my...
Courage and Sweat Led to a Cutting Garden
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...Flower Possible
What sets entrepreneurs apart from non-entrepreneurs? The willingness to grant yourself the permission to not just dream— but to go after the dream without knowing exactly how to make it happen. Just do it. (Better words never spoken.) Perfect followup: Just jump and...
Connecting with Customers in a Contactless World
Note from Lisa: This article is based on a true story about a real business. The images are from my farm and business. Business was booming. Selling their flowers at several large farmers markets and had done so for many years. Each week at the market, customers...
Flower Farming Business: Starting, Sustaining, and Surviving
This 4-week series is brought to you by TheGardenersWorkshop.com. Making it possible for flower lovers at all levels to grow and enjoy flowers and to build businesses based on flowers! This video series shares the backside of becoming or being a flower farmer—the...
Becoming a Flower Farmer, the rest of the story…
I wrote a blog a while ago about my innocent ambitions of becoming a flower farmer. As I reviewed it, I realized my story hasn’t ended and in fact I am beaming with excitement about the late summer and fall this year! Having come out on the other side of high...
The Flower Farming Industry and the Pandemic
A panel chat with locally grown fresh flower industry folks during the COVID 19 pandemic and it’s impact. Panelist: Lisa Mason Ziegler hosting, Jonathan & Megan Leiss of Spring Forth Farm, Ellen Frost of Local Color Flowers, Jennie Love of Love N’...
Life-Changing Lessons
You know what I love the most about this adventure of producing online courses for others? It’s witnessing the wisdom and experiences pouring out of these amazing teachers. Their messages are powerful and the lessons are life-changing. Overly dramatic statement? Not...
A Better Way to Garden and Farm
When I was getting on the bus to leave Spring Forth Farm, I knew I would be back. From the organized appearance of the farm to hearing their story and then the teaching began, wowza. My wheels started turning. Before I left their farm that day over a year ago, I...
Life Changing Lessons
You never know until you walk in those shoes-a phrase that I value now more than ever since becoming a small business owner. When I think back on the past two decades and how my life and even my dreams have evolved, I’m stunned. I never imagined that my...
Facebook Live: Overcoming Challenges to Become a Flower Farmer
What’s stopping you from becoming a flower farmer? Dave and I discuss how we overcame the challenges we faced and more. What is your “I can’t start my business because…..” No experience? No cooler? No acreage? No greenhouse? No delivery vehicle? No startup...
Pipe Dreams and the Land of the Giants!
Do you have an idea sitting in the back of your mind that just won’t go away? Whenever you have a moment to sit and think… it just keeps coming back? The idea seems so impossible. Others may call it a pipe dream (something unattainable) and that may be so!...
A Lack of customers is not why flower farms fail….
There have been concerns expressed over all the new interest in commercial flower farming. Seasoned and new farmers are wondering: are there enough customers to go around? I say without hesitation, yes there are enough buyers out there. In the U.S. alone consumers...So many different walks of life!
Part of my job here at The Gardener’s Workshop job has become communicating what we do here and the ways we offer to share, educate, and supply what you need. As we are heading into the once a year enrollment period for Flower Farming School, I find myself totally...
Fence talk saved my flower farming life
During my years as a flower farmer and business owner, I’ve learned many monumental lessons. The one I am sharing here saved my flower farming life. It occurred during my early years of farming. I was frustrated and seriously thinking of quitting. It was nearly a...
Lisa Live! How Online Courses Work
We get so many questions on how our online courses work that I thought I would answer some of the most common ones here. You can learn more about the specific details of our Flower Farming School Online courses here and our mini-courses here.
Facebook Live! Surviving the Heat and What Not To Do!
This Lisa Live! reveals that we are moving our warehouse back home! Plus tips on gardening and farming in the heat and surviving. Tip of the day: eat the ugly frog first!! Make no farming decisions in the midst of summer! Don’t let the heat steal your thunder....
Flower Farming Myths and What I Wish I Knew…
A myth has a way of taking on a life of its own and driving us to unhelpful practices. While a myth might be false, it is often widely held and very influential. I’ve fallen for a few flower farming myths through the years, but on top of that, I created some of...
Is Flower Farming School Online for Me and Will I Have Time?
I’ve been getting questions from folks who aren’t sure if my Flower Farming School Online course is right for them and if they will have time to take the course. What you may not know about me is… I love to answer questions face-to-face, so I jumped on camera to...My Gift has Limits
When I embarked on developing Flower Farming School Online I had a list of goals for the project. At the top of that list was to make the course affordable for as many as possible. I remember my early days of starting a business- there was never enough $$$ to go...