The Flower Farmers

"If you've ever dreamed of being a flower farmer, this joyful book will show you that dreams do come true. The Flower Farmers celebrates a rich tapestry of creative and inventive free spirits who have built their lives around the soil, the harvest, and their communities. It's a visual feast and a delightful dose of inspiration." * Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Flower Confidential and The Drunken Botanist *
“Hope. Flowers so frequently represent our much-needed belief in hope. Possibilities. The 29 hard-working and big-thinking flower farmers profiled in The Flower Farmers: Inspiration Advice from Expert Growers by Slow Flowers founder, Debra Prinzing and her collaborator Robin Avni, offer readers a dazzling abundance of hope and possibilities for how flower farmers and their innovative businesses, large and small, new and long-established, in all corners of North America, are growing our world better environmentally and economically, socially and psychologically. From a great diversity of cultural and lived-experience backgrounds, The Flower Farmers offers us all more meaningful flowers and meaningful farms: more hope, possibility, connection, and substance - blueprints for the stuff ‘that dreams [and our hopes for the future] are made of.’” * Jennifer Jewell, Creator & Host of Cultivating Place, award-winning public radio program and podcast *
“In my work as a floral designer and educator, I am always inspired to design with locally-grown flowers. And there's nothing more exciting than getting to know the farmers who grow the beautiful flowers, and to know their stories, too. In The Flower Farmers, I can dig deeper into those stories of floral entrepreneurs whose paths are familiar to my own personal discovery of a flower-filled life.” * Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht, author of Flower Love and host of "The Big Flower Fight" on Netflix *