ASCFG Events Calendar

Ask an Expert: Not Your Grandma’s Dried Flowers

Zoom

Let's liberate cut flower farmers of this world from tedious rubber banding of bunches and climbing on ladders! Emily Patrick of Carolina Flowers will show you how to create high quality, colorfast, intact dried flowers quickly and efficiently. Emily has prepared and sold dried flowers for over five years and will share her hard won […]

Ask an Expert: Using the Paperpot Planting System for Specialty Cut Flowers

Zoom

Join the ASCFG for the May 2024 Ask an Expert session led by Julia Keel of Full Keel Farm! Julia will present on using the Paperpot system for cut flowers on her farm in Florida. After adopting the Paperpot trays in 2020, she estimates that about 85% of Full Keel Farm's 2024 crops will be […]

Ask an Expert: How Intellectual Property Can Protect and Grow Your Flower Business

Zoom

Join us for the June 2024 Ask an Expert session on intellectual property! Jenny Jonak of Dragon Song Farm has been an attorney for 27 years. She will talk about intellectual property issues that you can use to protect and grow your flower business. Briefly, intellectual property refers to the creative work or processes you […]

Ask an Expert: Drawbacks in Selling Invasives to Florists

Zoom

Curbing the Spread of Invasive Species in Flower Farming and Floristry Challenges and Solutions for Growers and Florists Invasive species are causing problems across farms, gardens, waterways, wildlife habitats, and landscapes. They are often foraged or grown by flower farmers and used in designs by florists. Sometimes this is intentional, while other times it results […]

Ask an Expert: Maximizing Season Extension

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Join Maya Kosok of Hillen Homestead (Baltimore, MD) to learn about season extension without a greenhouse or high tunnel. Maya will cover several different ways to maximize your growing space with minimal infrastructure, including planting hardy annuals, selecting perennials, using low tunnels for frost protection, succession planting, and more. Many regions of the United States […]

Ask an Expert: Business Planning for Flower Farmers

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RESCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 7, 2024. Join us for an Ask an Expert session taught by Lennie Larkin of B-Side Flower Farm. Business planning can be an overwhelming process, which keeps flower farmers from doing it. But the good news is that business planning doesn't have to be a one-site-fits-all, formal process. In this session, Lennie […]

Ask an Expert: Hosting Successful & Profitable On-Farm Workshops

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Join us for the November 2024 Ask an Expert Session! Hosting workshops can be a wonderful way to share about your farm operation and to provide guests with a unique, memorable experience – but there is more planning and preparation to hosting workshops than most farmers anticipate. During this session, Niki Irving of Flourish Flower […]

ASCFG Supplier Showcase: Get Ready to Thrive in 2025!

Zoom

The ASCFG will host the 2025 Supplier Showcase on Monday, December 9, and Tuesday, December 10, 2024. This is a wonderful opportunity for members to connect with agricultural and cut flower vendors. ASCFG members are invited to attend these complimentary webinars, during which vendors will discuss current and forthcoming products, tools, and other useful resources. […]

ASCFG Supplier Showcase: Get Ready to Thrive in 2025!

Zoom

The ASCFG will host the 2025 Supplier Showcase on Monday, December 9, and Tuesday, December 10, 2024. This is a wonderful opportunity for members to connect with agricultural and cut flower vendors. ASCFG members are invited to attend these complimentary webinars, during which vendors will discuss current and forthcoming products, tools, and other useful resources. […]

Ask an Expert: Best Practices for Seed Saving

Zoom

Join us for the ASCFG's January 2025 Ask an Expert webinar on Monday, January 13, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern! Erika Clarke founded and manages Sow Local Seeds, a family farm that specializes in locally adapted and ecologically produced flower, herb, and vegetable seeds in Nova Scotia, Canada. During her presentation, she will walk attendees through […]

Ask an Expert: Pressed Flowers for New Products and New Customers

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Join us for the ASCFG’s February 2025 Ask an Expert webinar on Monday, February 17, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern! Kate Punnett created a small flower press company called The August Press where she sells flower presses across North America. She also captures her pressed art digitally and sells her prints, and her future goals are […]

Ask an Expert: Solar Panels on Cut Flower Farms

Zoom

Jenny Jonak has been an attorney for 27 years as well as the founder and owner of Dragon Song Farm in Eugene, Oregon. During this Ask an Expert webinar, Jenny will describe her experience with installing solar panels on her cut flower farm. This important infrastructure investment required time, upfront costs, and research, and Jenny […]