Episodes

https://youtu.be/yOLV0XJX1ic?si=h_G5fRCyQrUj7WQE It’s engagement season and many of our wedding and event designers are busy at this time of year, consulting with prospective couples and pulling together concepts and proposals. For Slow Flowers designers, those who infuse their business values with sourcing and sustainable considerations, there’s an important added layer involved. Jessica Stewart of Bramble & Blossom Today’s guest, Jessica Stewart, is well aware of the importance of educating cl...

https://youtu.be/J85KKde0QOg?si=G_qU8ViQQmjc7jHQ Jessica Hall of Harmony Harvest Farm and The Mum Project PROMO CODE: Harmony Harvest has provided a promo code for our listeners and viewers. You can apply this to any retail or wholesale order SLOWMUMS I’m welcoming Jessica Hall of Harmony Harvest Farm back to the Slow Flowers Podcast today with an update on her Weyers Cave, Virginia-based farm’s expanding collection of specialty, old-fashioned, heirloom, and hard-to-find chrysanthemums for growe...

https://youtu.be/unM1Q5WXRgM?si=w--GNPRP6MHFBtwj Today’s guest is longtime Slow Flowers member Toni Reale, owner and creator of Roadside Blooms in North Charleston, South Carolina. Let’s learn about how she takes risks to grow her diversified floral and plant enterprise – I’m certain that you’ll gain some tips for your business!The shop specializes in weddings, events and everyday deliveries using near 100 percent American- and locally-grown blooms. Toni Reale, Roadside Blooms Toni founded Roads...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTVga8HIZOM It's 2024~ Welcome to a New Year! This is the 10th year we’ve produced the Slow Flowers' Floral Insights and Industry Forecast, which originated in 2015 as a series of media presentations that we also shared with members and listeners. This episode is accompanied by two important, free resources. First, a video report that I recently recorded with Robin Avni, creative director of BLOOM Imprint, our Slow Flowers publishing venture. This is the video com...

https://youtu.be/q8vpkczS_6I?si=0f7YAE6kmrI2MbrU 2023 Slow Flowers Year in Review (PDF)Download the PDF of our Year in Review presentation Slow Flowers Society 2023 Year in Review with Debra Prinzing News of the Week Our commitment to featuring a diversity of subject matter experts and experienced voices, not to mention bringing the Slow Flowers Summit to an unforgettable location, will continue for 2024. And for the first time, we’re hosting an international Summit at Banff Centre for Arts & Cr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdhR47SiWo If you’re a regular listener, you’ve heard the announcement about our first ever international Slow Flowers Summit heading to Banff, Alberta, Canada in June 2024. Not only are we super excited about bringing our seventh annual Slow Flowers Summit to Canada, we’re also proud to announce that all of our speakers are Canadian-based Slow Flowers members, designers and flower farmers, and Canadian sustainability experts. The new film series includes a short...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM_gRuFjlnA Today’s episode is like a floral runway show for growers and designers alike and you’ll be wowed by the new flower seed introductions for 2024, revealed by Hillary Alger and Joy Longfellow of Johnny’s Selected Seeds. Flower experts Joy Longfellow and Hilary Alger of Johnny's Seeds We are so happy to have had such a long relationship with Johnny’s Seeds as a content partner and sponsor of the Slow Flowers movement. And at this time of year, gardeners an...

https://youtu.be/gMiHdS8Z9Sc?si=W6bODEm9PB1VKmst Kristen Rubin, Sweetwater Stem Co. This week we’re learning about how one grower has managed her first five flower farming years. Kristen Rubin of Sweetwater Stem Co., in Gig Harbor, Washington, will share how she found sales channels for her blooms at a time when local farmers’ markets were closed due to the Pandemic. Kristen and her husband Allan bought what she describes as a vintage, 8-acre farm in 2019, previously home to highland cattle, whe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2LUprKQ7r8 The Slow Flowers Podcast is grateful to the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market for its longtime support -- and today's episode underscores our relationship. From its beginnings in 2010, when a group of local flower farmers hatched up the idea of starting a wholesale hub for local flowers here in Seattle, my storytelling has been intertwined with their stories. My guests today are part of that narrative. Please join me on a visit to Field to Heart owned b...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ7Eb9uGN-k Sarah Jo Eversole at Everbloom Fields Today, you’re invited to join me on a visit to Everbloom Fields, an urban flower farm located just south of downtown Dallas. Sarah Jo Eversole is the primary farmer with a little maintenance help from her husband, Matt, and their two young children are often found playing among the flowers while Sarah Jo tends to her crops. Anemones from Everbloom Fields You’ll learn how Sarah Jo started Everbloom Fields six years ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIj5Amfyo4w A conversation about the native plants and sustainable land care practices of the Canadian prairies and grasslands Last Friday, November 10th, we held a virtual members meet-up to introduce the just-announced Slow Flowers Summit in 2024. We shared the dates -- June 23-25, 2024 -- the venue, beautiful Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Banff, Alberta, Canada, surrounded by the Canadian Rockies, and highlights of our program. We have eleven inspiring ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlIq1TrnmY8 So wonderful to reunite with Slow Flowers friend Andrea K. Grist! Today’s episode includes a short conversation with longtime Slow Flowers Society member Andrea Grist, of Florasource KC, based in Overland Park, KS, outside Kansas City. Andrea is a past guest of this podcast and I caught up with her in person when she had a long layover while flying through Seattle in August. Ostensibly, we met for lunch, but I couldn’t not bring along my video camera t...

https://youtu.be/6mAqGZYBCb4 We’re releasing today’s episode on Wednesday, November 1st, and this means you’ve probably just wrapped up your Halloween festivities. But as we turn our attention to harvest, home, and the November holidays, the seasonal decorations continue -- and of course with that, orange-gold-and-rusty color palettes are ever present. With that our minds, today’s episode shares plant passions and design ideas that are perfect for this time of year. Succulent pumpkin design by E...

https://youtube.com/live/orcgviPZEdU?feature=share We’ve just wrapped up our celebration of the 10-year Anniversary of the Slow Flowers Podcast with a retrospective of a decade that brought you more than 500 original episodes of interviews. Whew! I am in awe of the amazing guests we have featured, their passion for local flowers, their ingenuity, dedication, and contributions to the Slow Flowers Movement. Let’s see what the next decade brings! Jodi Logue, Moss and Madder Farm Today, we resume ou...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bWvsGt8yg This is our final encore episode as part of the 10-year celebration of the Slow Flowers Podcast being on the air as the original floral podcast since our debut in July 2013. Thanks for celebrating with me as we returned to the archives and shared a few of the special the stories and voices of flower farmers and florists featured in the past decade. This week, I’m sharing a favorite encore episode from the 10th year of the Slow Flowers Podcast, a video ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5E5FyIFkvo This week, I’m sharing an encore episode from the 9th year of the Slow Flowers Podcast, a conversation with David Brunton of Right Field Farm based in Millersville, Maryland, recorded in October 2021. David and Lina of Right Field Farm, growing local and sustainable cut flowers in year four! 2021 was the first season during which we incorporated video interviews as part of the Slow Flowers Show; each week’s show later posted as audio-only for our Podca...

I hope you have been enjoying our 10-year retrospective as I have. It has been so fun to reconnect with some of our Slow Flowers members who shared their stories on the Slow Flowers Podcast over the past decade. Postal Petals founder and CEO Talia Boone @ Nancy Hernandez This week, I’m delighted to revisit my Fall 2020 interview with Talia Boone of Los Angeles-based Postal Petals. Postal Petals has a social impact mission through flowers and I’m excited to re-introduce Talia and her story in our...

Mara Tyler (c) Taken by Sarah I hope you have been enjoying our 10-year retrospective as I have. It has been so fun to reconnect with one of our guests dating back to the Slow Flowers Podcast’s first episode in 2013, and pick up where I left off with one of our amazing Slow Flowers Members who appeared as a guest on the show. This week, we turn the dial back to early March 2020, literally on the eve of the Covid 19 Pandemic. I interviewed Philadelphia farmer-florist Mara Tyler of The Farm at Oxf...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SJ8FiEBuHE Today’s conversation is both timely and inspiring; compelling and important. I want to welcome Jennifer Jewell back to the Slow Flowers Show. You are in for a very special hour with this gifted human. Jennifer Jewell (c) Caitlin Atkinson Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Since 2016, she has written and hosted the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place. She is p...

Whit McClure at the Slow Flowers Summit 2019 In April 2019, I met up with today’s encore guest, flora artist Whit McClure of Los Angeles-based Whit Hazen. Studio floral designer Whit McClure moved to Los Angeles in 2015 and almost immediately dove into the floral community there. Her introduction to flower farming and floral design is rooted in connections made through food justice and the local culinary community in Washington, D.C. Whit spent years after college working on farms, in community ...

Today is the 5th Encore Episode of our retrospective to highlight one episode from each year of the past decade and bring the best of the Slow Flowers Podcast to you. If you're a longtime listener, you might recognize these flower folks; if you're new to the Slow Flowers Podcast, I'm excited to introduce you to them for the first time. Janis, known in her community as the "flower lady" In July 2017, we turned attention to the Slow Flowers Movement in Canada, where there is amazing flower farming...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcejY1Zed-M Today, we have a fun episode to share with you and the timing is perfect to welcome Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht to the Slow Flowers Podcast. Kristen first appeared on the Podcast in July 2020 when he appeared on the small screen as head judge and Netflix’s breakout star on The Big Flower Fight. He is the owner of Seattle-based design studio Wild Bloom Floral, and is author of a brand-new, inspirational floral design book, called “Flower Love: Lush Flo...

https://www.youtube.com/live/Ji5r2OqRNC0?feature=share Today we're taking a pause on the 10-year retrospective to bring you a fun video episode -- a shop tour, interview, and floral design demonstration that I filmed on August 4th at Stems Brooklyn. Suzanna Cameron of Stems Brooklyn Stems Brooklyn team It had been many years since I first visited Stems and spent time with founder Suzanna Cameron, and so much has changed since then. Stems began life 10 years ago in the tiny foyer of a Brooklyn ba...

Today is the 4th Encore Episode as our decade-long retrospective to highlight one episode from each year of the past decade and bring the best of the Slow Flowers Podcast to you. If you're a longtime listener, you might recognize these flower folks; if you're new to the Slow Flowers Podcast, I'm excited to introduce you to them for the first time. Mary Coombs (right) and Dawn Clark (left) of A Garden Party LLC Today, I'm happy to introduce you to Dawn Clark and Mary Coombs, horticulturists and f...