What To Know Before Starting a Flower Farm

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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If you’ve wanted to quit your job and start a flower farm, this is the episode for you. Briana shares what she wishes she knew when starting Blossom and Branch Farm. Connect With Briana Bosch: Briana Bosch is the owner of Blossom and Branch Farm, where she field-grows flowers as well as works to regenerate the wooded section of her property. Blossom and Branch Farm Facebook Instagram Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever dreamt of quitting your job and growing flowers for a living?
0:17.7	I think a lot of people listening to this podcast probably have.
0:21.4	I don't know if my dream was necessarily flowers.
0:23.4	I think for me it was growing microgreens and that is what I did a while ago.
0:28.0	It certainly didn't make enough to live off of, but that's another story.
0:30.7	But we do have someone who I think did just that.
0:33.4	I actually don't know Brianna, your origin story of Lawson and Branch Farm.
0:37.4	But my understanding at least is that you started in 2018 and I'm curious what you were doing before that.
0:42.7	I did like 18 different things.
0:44.3	I was a journalist.
0:45.2	I was a ballerina.
0:47.2	I always a copy editor.
0:48.8	I've worked in a marketing.
0:50.5	I have my MBA.
0:51.4	So I worked for Disney and worked for Allergan, like very corporate world.
0:56.0	And then, yeah, I just hated it.
0:57.6	I hated all of it.
0:59.1	So that's why I started the farm.
1:01.2	I just, I had a huge existential crisis, the sorts.
1:06.2	Wow.
1:07.2	One of my best friend passed away.
1:10.6	I was suicide.
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