The Sustainable Flowers Podcast

The Sustainable Flowers Podcast:

A conversation about sustainable cut flower growing and designing between two passionate Canadian growers trying to figure it out.

Heather and Clara grow cut flowers for market on the northern edge of the Canadian Prairies. In this podcast they discuss the issues they face and alternatives to conventional approaches that they are putting into practice or are trialing to ensure that their small-scale flower farming operations are sustainable. Looking to the past and to new technologies to learn the whys and hows, they discuss everything from peat to floral foam, Antirrhinum to Zinnias as well as their weekly adventures on their Zones 2 and 3 flower farms.

Episode 04 Potting mix components and alternatives

Feb 26, 2019

In this episode we follow up on our discussion about why we should think about the peat in our potting mixes, with a discussion of some of the other components of potting mixes, like perlite and vermiculite and we discuss the options out there available in North America (but not necessarily available in Western Canada).

Episode 03a Field Notes Catch-Up mini episode

Feb 25, 2019

In this mini catch-up episode you will hear the our "field notes" conversations recorded in late January, early February 2019.

Our learning curve around podcasting has been steep and as you know we just published our first 3 episodes last week.

We wanted to do this catch-up episode to bring our "field...

Episode 01 Introductions

Feb 16, 2019

Welcome to the Sustainable Flowers Podcast, we are so glad you are joining us on this adventure!

Today we are introducing ourselves and chatting a bit about what motivated us to start this podcast conversation. As well, we talk a bit about what's going on on our farms this week.

Heather's flower farming business is...

Episode 02: Sustainability

Feb 16, 2019

This week we're discussing the word "Sustainable" and why we used it in our podcast title.

This wonderful word is threadbare from over and ill-use, but we chose to embrace it fully, because as some wise journalist once said"Sustainability is not a trend, its an ethic".

*apologies to the originator, Clara managed to...

Episode 03: A little about the peat in your potting mix

Feb 16, 2019

Thanks for joining us this week as we discuss one of the key components of most potting mixes: peat.

This is the time of year that we start seeding or start planning to do our seeding, and seeding usually involves using some sort of potting media or mix. Most potting mixes contain peat moss. But have you ever wondered...