Well-marketed cut flowers can net existing farms an increase in income per acre compared to traditional vegetables, according to Robin Trott, a seasoned Extension educator at the University of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s a Mother’s Day rite of passage to buy the moms in our lives bouquets of fresh flowers to let them know how much we love and appreciate them. Rather than stopping by a grocery ...

In addition to the gorgeous botanical gardens worthy of a wander, you can also find a plethora of pick-your-own flower farms to explore. With the opportunity to lose an afternoon in rows of flora and ...

Once customers make the connection between the flowers, the farmers, and the seasons, says Oliver, they develop a relationship with those flowers, which become more special. Oliver says she is working ...

Molly Gaeckle started her flower farm sowing just a few rows in the backyard garden of a small rental house in Minneapolis. Eight years later, her cut flower operation, Northerly Flora, has grown to ...

Flowers grown on inexpensive floating platforms can help clean polluted waterways, over 12 weeks extracting 52 percent more phosphorus and 36 percent more nitrogen than the natural nitrogen cycle ...