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The Dirt on Flowers — 287 episodes

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EP 287: In the Weeds with Judd

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EP 286: Uncut Week 25 The June Slump, Preppin' for Vacay and Keeping your Business Moving Forward

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EP 285: The Secret to Finding Great Help

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EP 284: Uncut Week 24 Bachelor Buttons are Back Baby, Wildroot Gin and Thank you

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EP 283: 5 Things We Would Tell You if We Were Not Scared of Hurting Your Feelings

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EP 282: Uncut Week 23 Moving, Mobility, and Growing the Flower Farm

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Ep 281: Behind the Scenes with Cross Street Flower Farm

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EP 280: Uncut Week 22 Rain + Million Downloads + Motivation to Keep Going

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EP 279: Are you looking at costs?

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EP 278: Uncut Week 21 Peony + Spring Crop Download

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EP 277: Designing Systems and Choosing Equipment: A Deep Dive into Mechanized Flower Farming

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EP 276: Uncut Week 20 - Mother's Day Rundown, Favorite Zinnias + Bad review Drama

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Ep 275: When accidents happen - Dr. Cole Biehl

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EP 274: Uncut Week 19 - Spirit Airlines, Prom Drama and Mother's Day Prep

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EP 273: Design Innovation with Passionflower Sue McLeary

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EP 272: Uncut Week 18 2026

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EP 271: Inside Lovely Hollow Farms with Nikki Van Lith

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EP 270: Uncut Week 17 2026

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EP 269 Tulip Season Rundown

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EP 268: Uncut Week 16 2026

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EP 267: How to Build & Run a Successful Outdoor Market

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EP 266: Uncut Week 15 2026

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EP 265: The Pre Season Pep Talk You Didn't know you Needed

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EP 264: Uncut Week 14 2026

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EP 263: Growing Pepperharrow Farm with Jenn & Adam O'Neal

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EP 262: Uncut Week 13 2026

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EP 261: What’s Slowing You Down?

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EP 260: Uncut Week 12 2026

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EP 259: When it is time to hire - the shift from overwhelmed farmer to CEO

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EP 258: Uncut Week 11 2026

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EP 257: Building a Mum-Obsessed Farm with Jessica Hall

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EP 256: Uncut Week 10 2026

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EP 255: Dirtbag Coffee Club with Meghan Dudenhoeffer

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EP 254: Uncut Week 9 2026

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EP 253: Jennifer Gulizia - Pricing and Marketing your dahlias like a Boss!

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EP 252: Uncut Week 8 2026

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EP 251: From DirtCon to Dirt Work: Making the Plan Stick

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EP 250: Uncut Week 7 2026

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EP 249: Spring Bulbs & Holiday Forcing with Val Schirmer

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EP 248: Uncut Week 6 2026

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EP 247: Growing Dahlias with Triple Wren Farms

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EP 246: Uncut Week 5 2026

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EP 245: Do You Want to Start Paying Yourself

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EP 244: Uncut Week 4 2026

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EP 243: How to Make a Profit on Your Farm

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EP 242: Uncut Week 3 2026

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EP 241: How to Get the Most Out of DirtCon (Without Trying to Do Everything)

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EP 240: Uncut Week 2 2026

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EP 239: Operating Limits: How to Stop Overcommitting

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EP 238: Uncut Week 1 2026

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EP 237: Year in Review 2025

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EP 236: Uncut Week 52

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EP 235: Farm Hits, Misses, and Never-Agains

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EP 234: Uncut Week 51

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EP 233: The 5 Components of a Great Email Introduction

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EP 232: Uncut Week 50

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EP 231: Our favorite things

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EP 230: Uncut Week 49

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EP 229: The Real Cost of Winging it

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EP 228: Uncut Week 48

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EP: 227 How Small-Scale Farmers Can Go from Hobby to Profit

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EP 226: Uncut Week 47

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EP 225: Analyzing your Data, Minus the Overwhelm

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EP 224: Uncut Week 45

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EP 223: The Race to the Bottom does not Have to be Yours

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EP 222: Uncut Week 44

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EP 221: Monsters of Flower Farming

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EP 220: Uncut Week 44

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EP 219: Lessons from the Flower Field

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EP 218: Uncut Week 43

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EP 217: Uncovering the Secrets of Soil Management

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EP 216: Uncut Week 42

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EP 215: Designing a Life You Love

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EP 214: Uncut Week 41

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EP 213: The Dirt on DirtCon- Tickets are LIVE!

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EP 212: Uncut Week 40

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EP 211: What Every Farmer Needs to Hear Today

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EP 210: Uncut Week 39

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EP 209: Tulip Deep Dive

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EP 208: Uncut Week 38

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EP 207: 5 Ways to Make Money before the end of the year

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EP 206: Uncut Week 37

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EP 205: How to Launch a Successful Early Bird CSA

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EP 204: Uncut Week 36

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EP 203: Are you in a CSA slump?

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EP 202: Uncut Week 35

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EP 201: The Best Thing You'll Ever Do for Your Business

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EP 200: Uncut Week 34

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EP 199: How to Get Your Emails Seen & Opened with Angie Machado

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EP 198: Uncut Week 33

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EP 197: Sourcing Local Flowers with Ellen Frost

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EP 196: Uncut Week 32

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EP: 195 Workshops that Work: Systems, Strategy & Scaling with Brittany Doyle

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EP 194: Uncut Week 31

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EP 193: Kelly Shore the Floral Source

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EP 192: Uncut Week 30

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EP 191: Growing Cool Flowers with Lisa Mason Ziegler

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EP 190: Uncut Week 29

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EP 189: The Power of Reviews

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EP 188: Uncut Week 28

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EP 187: Sweet Pea School with Marryn Mathis

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EP 186: Uncut Week 27

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EP 185: How to Plan Now for a Strong second Half of the Year

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EP 184: Uncut Week 26

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EP 183: Then vs. Now: Our Perennial Journey (Replay + Reflection)

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EP 182: Uncut Week 25

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EP 181: Tips and Tricks on "You Pick" Events

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EP 180: Uncut Week 24

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EP 179: Refocus, Reconnect and Embracing Change with Jessica Chase

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EP 178: Uncut Week 23

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EP 177: Profit-Driven Farming with Jenny Marks

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EP 176: Uncut Week 22

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EP 175: Stop Playing Small - Creating confidence in pricing

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EP 174: Uncut Week 21

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EP: 173 Calculating the Leap: Quitting your 9-5

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EP 172: Uncut Week 20

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EP 171: Transform Your Marketing with Expert Tips from Channing Muller

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EP 170: Uncut Week 19

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EP 169: Fire, Ready, Aim - Overcoming Indecision

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EP 168: Uncut Week 18

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EP 167: Embracing Your Enneagram Type with Jackie Brewster

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EP 166: Uncut Week 17

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EP 165: Spilling the Dirt on Coolers

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EP 164: Uncut Week 16

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EP: 163: Is Your Farm Properly Insured? Essential Coverage for Agritourism with Keith Allen

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EP 162: Uncut Week 15

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EP 161: Avoid these Flower Farming Pitfalls

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EP 160: Uncut Week 14

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EP 159: Understanding Agritourism Law with Attorney Robert Barga

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Ep 158: Uncut Week 13

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EP 157: A Day in the Life of

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EP 156: Uncut Week 12

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EP 155: 10 Flowers to Grow in Your First Year

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EP 154: Uncut Week 11

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EP 153: 5 IG Strategies That Will Improve Your Local Business Visibility with Emily Connors

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Ep 152: Uncut Week 10

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EP 151: Is your perfectionism holding you back?

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EP 150: Uncut Week 9

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EP 149: Small Hinges, Swing Big Doors

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EP 148: Uncut Week 8

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EP 147: Farming: Where Flowers Bloom, Self-Care Dies?

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EP 146: Uncut Week 7

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EP 145: Creating Boundaries for your Business

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EP 144: Uncut Week 6

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EP 143: The Dirt on Peonies with Dave Dowling

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EP 142: The Dirt on Celosia with Michelle Elston

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EP 141: The Dirt on Sunflowers with Sunflower Steve Kaufer

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EP 140: Growing Lisianthus with Dave Dowling

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EP 139: Interview with Linda D'Arco from Ampersand Bulb Co.

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EP 138: Q4-ish Review with Shawn Mercer

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EP 137: The Journey of a Chrysanthemum Grower Brian Kanotz of King's Mums

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EP 136: The 2025 Cut List

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EP 135: Our Favorite Things

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EP 134: Do these 5 things before the end of the year

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EP 133: Spilling the Dirt on Managing a Flower Farm During Fall's Busy Transition

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EP 132: The evolution of Sunny Meadows Flower Farm with Gretel Adams

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EP 131: Discover the Insiders: Learn How You Can Benefit From Joining

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EP: 130 Growing in Low Tunnels with Jennifer Rall

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EP 129: Blooms and Doom: Hilarious Misadventures in Flower Farming

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EP 128: How Mistakes Shape Our Flower Farming Journey

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EP 127: From Soil to Storage: Mastering the Art of Dahlia Digging

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EP 126: Why Your Farm Needs a Website With Alix Northrup

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EP 125: Mythbusting Social Media Trends

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EP 124: Spillin' the Dirt: From Date Nights to CSA Bouquets

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EP 123: From Engineer to Crops: Andrea McAdow's Path to Building a Thriving Farm Business in Arizona

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EP 122: Defining What Success Means to You

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EP 121: Don't Let "Dream Destroying Deborah" Hold You Back: Embrace Your Marigolds!

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EP 120: Spillin' the Dirt on Lisianthus

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EP 119: Q2-ish Review

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EP 118: Entrepreneurial Mindset with Julia Shanks - The Farmers Office

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EP 117: Wreaths, Workshops, and Winter: Unlocking Holiday Success in Flower Farming

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EP 116:Spill the dirt- Harvest timing & efficiencies

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EP 115: Blooms, Challenges, and Resilience with Shanti of Whipstone Farm

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EP: 114 Our Favorite Online Tools

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EP 113: Breaking the Mold of Traditional Flower Farming with Laura Beth Resnick

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EP 112: The Heavy Cost of Staying in your Comfort Zone

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EP 111: Blooming Beyond Borders: A Conversation with Canadian Flower Farmer Janis Smith-Harris

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EP 110: 7 Characteristics of a Resilient Farmer

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EP 109: Our Q1-ish Reviews

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EP 108: Mastering Tulips with Linda D’Arco & Emily von Trapp

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EP 107 : Workshop Series (Part 3 Marketing your Workshops)

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EP 106: Workshop Series (Part 2 Pricing Strategies)

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EP 105: Workshop Series (Part 1-Planning)

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EP 104: The FSA Lowdown with Amanda Sargent

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EP 103: Knowing your Critical Number

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EP 102: Mental Prep - Forcing Tulips and Endless House chores

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Ep 101: Running a Profitable U-Pick with Loretta Ball

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EP 100: Our Most Memorable Moments

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EP 99 : Aunt Willie's Wild Flowers with Linda Doan

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EP 98: Why branding matters with Alix Northrup

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EP 97 : Finding your Customer Avatar with Corinna Bench of My Digital Farmer

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EP 96 : 6 Symptoms of Fear in Flower Farming

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EP 95 : Digging into SEO with Julia Bocchese

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EP 94: Wedding Consults 101

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EP 93: 5 Things to do now for your best year!

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EP 92 : Master Growing in a High Tunnel with Tracey & Matt Parriman

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EP 91: So You Want a High Tunnel? Part 2

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EP 90: So You Want a High Tunnel? Part 1

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EP 89: Behind the Scenes of the Bloom Hill Farm Expansion with Judd & Shannon

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EP 88: The Evolution of Petal Pickers with Daniel Schavey

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EP 87: Spilling the Dirt with Questions Asked by You

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EP 86: Our Year in Review

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EP 85: Our Favorite Things

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EP 84: The importance of a weekly newsletter

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EP 83: Creating a Lasting Connection with your Customer

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EP 82 : 5 Keys to Profit with Lennie Larkin

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EP 81: Turkey Day Gratitude

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EP 80 : Target Market Series: Flower CSA

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EP 79: High Tunnel Chats - Seed Starting Woes - Social Media

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EP 78: A Message from the Heart

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EP 77: Wedding Design with Tara Fodor of Farmhouse Blooms

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EP 76: Spooky Edition - Our Flower Farming Horror Stories

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EP 75: Target Market Series: Weddings

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EP 74: Spill the Dirt - Marketing

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EP 73: The most profitable flowers

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EP 72: Fall tasks on the farm

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EP 71: Farming with your Partner with Shannon and Judd

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EP 70: Creating your Roadmap to $100K - Managing your mindset (Part 3)

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EP 69: Creating your Roadmap to $100K - Managing Expenses (Part 2)

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EP 68: Creating your Roadmap to $100k (Part 1)

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EP 67: Is Agritourism a good fit for your farm?

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EP 66: Planning for Spring of 2024

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EP 65: Burnout, Books and Hiring your first employee

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EP 64: Industry Update: The state of Bulb Harvest in Holland with Jeroen Menkveld of Netherland Bulb

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EP 63: Navigating the Early Years of Business with Ben Hanna - Heirloom Roses

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EP 62: The Dirt on Sunflowers

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EP 61: Feeding your soil with cover crops. Albert Tomechko of Vitalize Seed

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EP:60 The Evolution of a Flower Business with Connie Homerick of the Ohio Flower Collective

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EP 59 : Sleep, Creep, Leap - Farming with Perennials

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EP 58 : Filling the gap month - Our most valuable crops & more!

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EP 57: How do you sort through all the farming advice out there?

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EP 56: Letting your customer define your product with Christy Ralphs of Nourish Gardens

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EP 55: Getting Unstuck and Too Many Flower Farms?

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EP 54: Making the Most of Your Land with Joanna Webb

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EP 53: Mothers Day Reflections

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EP 52: Working Smarter NOT Harder with Michelle Elston

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EP 51: Year 1- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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EP 50: DOF Insider Interview- Kendra at Dogwood Farms

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EP 49: Our Biggest Failures

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EP 48: How to Make Farmer's Markets Work for You with Jenny Marks

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EP 47: The Skinny on Succession Planting

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EP 46: Spilling the Dirt on Marketing

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EP 45: Creating a Successful Launch with Kalin Sheick

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EP 44: Email Marketing with Andy Snyder of Terra Farms

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EP 43: Digging Out of your Content Rut

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EP 42: The 3 C's of Successful Marketing

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EP 41: Profit Goals, Paying Yo Self, and Understanding Quickbooks

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EP 40: I am starting my farm. Now what?

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EP 39: Prioritize Profit with these Habits

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EP 38: Revenue is Vanity, Profit is Sanity

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EP 37: Spillin' the Dirt on Crop Plans

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EP 36: 5 Lessons Learned over the past 7 years

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EP 35: Goal Setting for Success

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EP 34: The Dirt on Flowers Insiders

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EP 33: Finding Your Marigold

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EP 32: Holiday Christmas Party

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EP 31: Full time hustle, Wranglin' kiddos, and Starting over

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EP 30: The Dirt on Employees - Part 2

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EP 29: The Dirt on Employees

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EP 28: Dirtbag Deep Dive - One on One Coaching

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EP 27: Taking the Stress out of Bookkeeping

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EP 26: Christmas/Holiday Greens Business on a Flower Farm

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EP 25: Crop plans, Under-cutters and CSA sales

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EP 24: Reflecting on our Summer Season

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EP 23: What they never tell you when starting a farm

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EP 22: Turn your Dirt into Soil with Marcus McCartney

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EP 21: Big risk, big return - Worst advice and knowing when to hire.

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EP 20: Dirtbag Deep Dive - One on One Coaching

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EP 19: The Dirt on Dahlias - Part 3 Spill the Dirt

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EP 18: The Dirt on Dahlias - Part 2

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EP 17: The Dirt on Dahlias - Part 1

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EP 16: Farm life, cover crops and 6 figure goals

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EP 15: The Dirt with Lori Hernandez of Three Acre Fam - How to Have a Healthy Relationship with your Farm

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EP 14: Growing your email list and selling to florists

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EP 13: ASCFG Rooted and Reconnected Conference Recap

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EP 12: Avoiding the Comparison Trap

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EP 11: The Dirt on our Favorite Greenery + Foliage

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EP 10: Full-time leap, time is money and how to keep your head above water.

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EP 9: The Dirt on Flower CSA's

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EP 8: Turning a profit, our amazing customer and on the hunt for balance.

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EP 7: The Dirt on Running a Profitable You Pick

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EP 6: The Dirt on Weed Management with Judd Allen of Bloom Hill Farm

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EP 5: The Dirt on Ranunculus and Anemone

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EP 4: Finding your target market - which sales outlet is right for you?

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EP 3: Direct Seeding for Success

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EP 2: The Dirt on Tulips

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EP 1: Let's get the Dirt on Flowers!