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Episode 670: A visit to Primrose Lane Farm, an Alberta, Canada, and a conversation with flower farmer Kristen Primrose · Slow Flowers Podcast

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  What is it like to grow cut flowers
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  in zones 2 to 4 for only 3
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  to 4 months each year and run a
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  successful. Small scale flower farm with these constraints.
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  Kristen P does just that, and I'm so
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  excited to share our conversation and tour, of
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  her southern Alberta flower farm.
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  It's been while to see. I remember the
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  first year
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  when
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  we had the garden... Parties, and I went
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  all in and my husband like, flex his
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  heart The end of that year, he was
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  just like, I had no idea. Like, this
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  was amazing like good job parties He didn't
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  understand. It's, like, what what do you mean
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  grow flowers? Like, who's gonna come. Like, we
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  live way out here. Like, what are you
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  thinking, you know? And so
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  when I started the garden parties it with
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  the year before Covid. Mh And so during
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  Covid, 1 out of their houses, like, and
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  this was outside.
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  Space and like and so it, really blew
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  up them. Just I'm I'm so thankful to
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  be a part of this community
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  and And to be surrounded by growers and
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  women who also cares so much about sustainability.
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  Yeah.
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  Hello again, and welcome back to the Slow
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  flowers podcast with Deborah Printing.
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  This is episode 670.
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  This is the weekly podcast about slow flowers
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  and the people who grow and design with
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  them.
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  It's all about making a conscious choice, and
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  I invite you to join the conversation and
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  the creative community as we discuss the vital
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  topics
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  of saving our domestic flower farms and supporting
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  a floral industry that relies on a safe,
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  seasonal
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  and local supply of flowers and foliage.
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  slow flowers dot com. The free online directory
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  local, seasonal and sustainable flowers and to the
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  farms that grow those blooms. It's the conscious
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  choice for buying and sending flowers.
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  And thank you to long field gardens, which
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  provides home gardeners with high quality, flower bulbs
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  and perennial.
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  Their online store offers plants for every region
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  and every season from Tulip and Da,
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  to Dahlia, C and Ama.
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  Check out the full catalog at long dash
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  gardens dot com.
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  I know you've heard me talk about the
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  20 24 slow flowers summit held last week,
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  June 20 third through 20 fifth in Ban,
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  Alberta, Canada.
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  I'm recording this episode just days after reach
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  turning home from the Canadian rockies.
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  The gorgeous natural setting where nearly 100 of
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  us gathered to inquire and include,
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  to be informed and inspired, and we hope
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  ins new ideas, projects and approaches to our
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  floral enterprises.
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  While on my 700
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  plus mile drive home to Seattle.
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  I took this somewhat out of the way
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  and incredibly scenic route. To Southwest
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  Alberta. Where I visited
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  P lane farm in Mountain view outside of
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  Carts, Alberta and recorded an interview with Kristen
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  P, it's resident flower farmer. I'm so grateful
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  to Kristen for her support. She was 1
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  of the very first Alberta floral professionals.
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  To join Sunflower society as a member. Not
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  only that, but Kristen brought a few buckets
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  of balloons with her to the summit in
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  ban, wow the instructors and audience alike
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  with her just picked Pm e's. Thank you,
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  Kristen.
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  I know you'll love this conversation. It was
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  a very windy day and we've tried to
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  knock back the audio a bit, but That's
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  the deal with recording outdoors on a flower
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  farm. Kristen is an inspiration, and I'm so
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  grateful for the time that she gave me
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  for an in person visit. Let's jump right
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  in and get started.
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  Yeah. So I'm Chris P. We've been here
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  since 2017,
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  which is kind of when this garden goes
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  started every year. Started a little bit of
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  flowers and got flowers sick up the whole
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  thing now.
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  So, yeah, We live in here in the,
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  started southwest Alberta.
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  It's a little bit of a struggle
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  to get things to grow as you say,
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  like, it's cold and windy today.
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  You do We ask. Do it. Is that
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  the rocky No? Yeah. This is the Rocky
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  mountains.
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  So
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  the balance on this side are,
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  Montana where that close? Montana.
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  And the Water Lakes national parks.
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  Oh my goodness. Yeah. Gorge. Yeah. So things
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  are yeah. Love here than at most places.
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  So, yeah. I was kinda give you a
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  little tour and I've been gone the last
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  couple weeks, so it's a mess. Yes. You've
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  been a Regardless the yeah. So... But for
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  being a mess. It looks pretty tidy. Yeah.
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  So this section here is mostly...
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  This will be all that dry and stuff
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  like. Status and straw flower,
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  paper flower.
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  A little bit of nico in there as
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  well.
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  So do you start this by seat indoors
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  and then trans? Yeah. So we started indoors.
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  I usually just start, like Christmas is my
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  eucalyptus those kind of things.
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  And then once my basement gets too full,
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  We have a greenhouse just got Off the
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  side of the bar that we move stuff
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  into. We usually try not to do that
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  too early usually
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  by March just because it's still so cold
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  here and the cost of heating
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  adds up. So we tried to not fire
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  it up until we have to. So... So
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  in the house, you can just use the
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  ambient heat from your head. Yes. Yeah. And
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  then
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  for a little... What, like, maybe 2 months,
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  you'll have Yeah. Usually the app, about 2,
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  1 and a half, 2 months that we
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  actually have to eat it. So... What is
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  this general? This is your first garden? So
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  what is general area? So this is
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  just under a quarter. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Great
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  place. So... Alright. Well, yeah. And... You know,
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  for being gone, it looks like things kinda
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  took you.
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  Took care of himself for well. Yeah. We
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  have drip line in, which
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  we don't have irrigation here. It's all well
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  water.
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  So we do try to conserve as much
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  as we can. And so timers and drip
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  line and all that really helps us. So
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  does it it pumped up from the well?
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  Yeah. Yeah. So what's... Yeah. Water
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  yeah. So then in here these are my
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  dahlia they... We actually had snow
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  week and a half ago. We had snow
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  here.
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  Instagram. So it was a while to wake
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  up to. So they actually
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  look pretty good for just being snowed on.
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  There's a little bit of damage. But did
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  they break or no they didn't seem to
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  be... Some got a little bend, but,
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  little bit of rough bite on the tip,
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  But for the most part, they seem happy.
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  So these roast here. 2 rows. Yeah. We'll
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  be Dahlia. I struggle to...
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  I don't do a lot of dahlia just
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  because my season, like, we usually have snow
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  here beginning of September. So it's kinda just
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  when Dahlia get going. So
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  I can't knock outgrow them, but I don't
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  grow as many as I did the first
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  couple years hoping for better cross. So you'll
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  have some, but you... What and probably you'll
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  use every. Stem you grow, but not trying
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  to
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  specialize. No. And, yeah. We don't do roots
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  and stuff like that with the Dallas. Well,
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  it's good. Yeah. But it's weird. It's like
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  that's the into year season. Yeah. Yeah. It's
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  such a short season here.
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  So
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  they're not here.
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  Yeah we have... This is a Fox because
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  I love Ox club They like it here
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  from. And I have never seen a Fox
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  club before I groom them. They people don't
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  grow them here. They're not. I've been able
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  to get them. To perennial a bit.
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  I can control snow drifts with this wind
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  fence here.
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  To create a drift to help ins and
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  protect it. Tricked them into thinking they're in
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  a warmer zone over winter.
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  Yeah. You see some. My goodness. Yeah. And
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  they're been mute Yeah. So when you say
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  snow drift,
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  I was thinking originally like that just that
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  Fencing will keep snow from piling on top
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  of the beds. That's how you're talking about.
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  Yeah. So it makes snow.
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  The wind comes from the west, so everything
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  on this side of the snow fence will
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  create
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  a drift. And then that becomes your inside.
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  And that because my insulation so in the
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  winter, this whole garden
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  covered by a drip all the way to
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  the driveway Wow. Yeah. And then that protect
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  is more protective than if there's ice. Yeah.
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  Okay. And as we...
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  I don't know if you noticed in
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  1 of the talks of the stomach, she
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  talked about the chanel we get here. So,
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  yeah. It can vary... It can be minus
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  40 d celsius,
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  1 day and a week later, plus 20.
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  And so that's
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  a very big swing. So the snow, it
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  does melt a little bit, but it also
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  helps just a
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  the plants underneath that don't get that t
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  free recycle is harsh. So over. Yeah. Because
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  it so tall. Yeah. Even if it melts
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  a little bit. Melts a bit. Wow Yeah.
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  Yeah. I think Lat talked about. Yeah. She
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  did. Yeah. That's the 1 that was.
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  The new snaps here. Snapdragon
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  are
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  Oh, my goodness.
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  So gil...
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  Have you started selling flowers or pews or
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  doing great. Yeah some to the summit. So
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  Yeah.
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  These aren't ready up, But maybe in, like,
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  Yeah. Another... Well, yeah. There's a handful that...
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  Yeah your some just started bloom. So I
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  have a handful. Have a wedding neck week,
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  just a
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  Diy bucket wedding. So they'll be perfect for
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  that. And then, yeah, in the next couple
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  weeks, hopefully,
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  the rest if we get some eat
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  the rest.
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  Should pop up. So, it's great. So the
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  Pee look really well.
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  Yeah Eat Then these oranges we have. We
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  plant sweet peas. Oh, I see. I wondered
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  about that. Throw up the arches.
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  And it's the nice way to organize the
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  farm. Yeah.
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  Yes. Little interest yeah. Kind of a a
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  center aisle. Yeah.
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  So then up here you get into a
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  little more pebble perennial stuff.
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  Yep. Yeah Arrows about starting globe this and
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  delphi on the end.
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  Cab.
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  Wow. Everything looks super healthy. Yeah food diseases.
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  Oh wow. You've got some miracles going in
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  into. And then Cynthia. Yeah. I kinda use
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  miracles for pests
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  sprinkled in and mouth, but mh. Yeah. Mayor...
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  The, again, they're 1 that just... I can't
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  grow well here. Is just too cold. Babies
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  wanna bathe. Yeah.
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  Some comments. But
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  could you sell them to edible for ed
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  adult people who went up edible flowers or
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  do you just see.
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  A little bit. I do... So when I
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  do my garden parties, I do garden parties
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  here,
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  which is kinda like a fancy u pick.
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  We do cookies. You with edible flowers baked
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  into that. Yeah. Cool will use. Yeah. That
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  for
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  some of that. Got. Okay. Let's see the
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  rest. I have lots of questions for you,
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  especially we'll go back to the garden parties
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  in a bit. Yeah. And here what that's
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  all.
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  Got So more More snapdragon. They're just 1
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  that does so well here, so I grow
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  the most Yeah. They're definitely a cool annual.
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  Right? But you're gel soon room. You know,
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  Oh my goodness. Yes. I'm stunning.
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  What is this variety do?
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  Up white be
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  something.
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  All yeah. Dark center. Yeah. I with the
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  black center So free. And then the Fox
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  love white tend have grow or choose to
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  grow white because you are supplying auto weddings
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  that is 1 factor for sure. Yeah. A
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  lot of my other fox clubs are, the
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  coral
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  repeats as well. Sure. Yeah. Because we love
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  those calls weddings. Yeah.
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  So then, yeah. Here since some more perennial.
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  C combines are done, Are
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  doing really loop students. Go cookies controls. Are
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  they used... They're...
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  Do you grow them seed or do you
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  get plugs? I'm from Seed, yeah. I do
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  everything proceed look at water from
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  Are just stunning.
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  Oh my goodness.
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  Message is the weird. I want you to
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  stand. Right? By them and be be in
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  your
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  Yeah. So they're doing... Yeah. Really well this
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  year.
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  Yeah. These purple 1 white ones are really
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  really pretty
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  different. But...
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  Yeah. But you have the... Just a solid
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  white and then the sort of more,
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  fuchsia colors. Yeah.
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  And then how many candies do you have
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  here, Crystal? In this section,
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  there are
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  a hundred and
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  50 ish give or take.
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  Wow. And when did you plan them? So
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  these are going
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  trying to think
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  year
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  5.
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  So, yeah, this is the last couple of
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  years, I've been able to harvest off of
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  these ones
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  quite a bit. They sure look healthy
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  the the foliage is pristine.
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  So,
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  love it. We've already done a swipe this
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  morning. I see a few more opening I
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  need to get out. But... Show me when
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  the stage you would wanna hire. So
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  see.
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  That 1 getting that maybe this afternoon. It's
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  not quite as soft as I live like.
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  How park Joan are you cutting on this
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  zone?
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  I usually cut down,
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  12 to 18 and... About 16 inches. Yeah.
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  And then... The side, and if there's side
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  buds you'd remove them or... I typically don't.
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  I like the added interesting gift of. Okay.
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  Even if they don't bloom, just that add.
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  At interest in okay, I like.
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  Right. So I usually leave line. They're not,
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  like, at going... But, you know, like a
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  spray rose where the the extra side ups
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  will open. Yeah. These ones typically won't once
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  they're cut. Yeah.
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  Do you wanna walk over to the other
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  field
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  lives this kind of... This is...
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  They're not quite ready to harvest this year.
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  Next year we'll be able to harvest off
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  them. I have taken a few blooms and
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  then I've let them
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  go to bloom just document and.
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  I get it ready for night. Is strengthen
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  up your roots routine. Yeah. So,
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  we'll we redo do all this sounds like
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  we put... It's in the middle of the
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  horse pasture.
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  So Did the horse used to go up.
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  Yeah. This used to be horse faster. They're
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  like, yeah. This brutal sore. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
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  Like And they certainly are not being deprived.
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  No. They still have lots of faith. You.
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  Oh, my goodness. How much do you have
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  all the altogether We have a hundred and
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  30. Oh, yeah. I think there's enough for...
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  Yeah. There's lots. Yeah. I can see a
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  few more if I need. Yeah. We'll redo
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  all this probably this fall. The same fence
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  kind of clear around board fence. Yeah. And
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  put a better aid and south you can
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  access it. When you events, and you'll bring
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  your your
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  already guess here. Yeah. Okay. So hopefully next
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  year also we'll start a Penny u pick.
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  As well. So I'm super excited for that
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  1.
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  0, for so exciting.
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  Like, you have to be very creative to
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  come come up with wages as to get
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  your flowers
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  make panel.
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  Yeah. Yeah. It takes a lot more
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  class and thought process just because I am
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  so isolated out here,
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  may it more of an event and
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  experience people.
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  Destination. Running
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  Thank you.
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  I could see these from the row. They're
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  gorgeous.
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  So these were my tulip beds I stuff
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  to get out,
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  get them cleaned up. So we do the
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  no dig,
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  build the box. Put the tulip in and
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  then come with tractor and just dump the
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  compost right on top. So there's no trench.
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  And there's no digging. Oh my goodness. And
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  just this row is off. Yeah. There's... I
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  think 7 or 8 beds. Yeah.
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  The So that's kinda nice low maintenance point.
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  Yeah. It is. Yeah. We kinda the last...
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  This is the second year we've done it
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  this way rather.
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  And crunchy. Then we'll come with the tractor
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  and just scoop it up and add it
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  back in the combos and do the same
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  thing in the fall. You'll scoop into the
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  bed. Yeah. Well lift the bed. Both.
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  And then
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  just come with the tractor and clean up
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  all the compost
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  and bolt
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  debris,
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  and then it'll go back into the compost.
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  And not not gonna do again. Yeah. So
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  it's become a super easy and... So not
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  even a lot of waiting required. No. No.
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  Because you just clean up the area. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Oh my gosh. And so roughly, how
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  many tulip ups are you able to cut
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  from here?
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  This year we did.
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  Is probably about 8000 this year. Yeah. In
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  these... Because you we... You can call them
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  quite condensed. Yeah. So, yeah. You can get
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  a lot and not a lot of space.
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  Well, this is also these Pee are... I
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  don't know. This seems like appropriate
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  spacing. It's not they're not...
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  Extra clothes. No. Okay. Yeah. No it's super
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  close, but we wanted them
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  close enough that once they... Like, they would
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  rely on each other. For
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  sold each other up in the wind? So
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  you're not having to stick? Yeah. T is.
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  Yeah.
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  Where are you getting most your Panties?
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  So a lot of these came from Unicorn
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  blooms.
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  It's a good canadian wholesaler. We love having
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  her. And she's able to import education. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Yeah. That's our trick up here. There's
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  not a lot of companies. We can't order
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  especially whole sales. Yeah. Amounts from the states
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  is easy. So to have unicorn blooms is
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  It's so... That's wonderful. Brings and beautiful stuff.
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  It looks great. So yeah. In this section,
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  there's... 10 rows.
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  Okay. You can kinda love out. Yeah. I'll
• 17:23
  walk with you.
• 17:26
  10 rows, and I believe
• 17:29
  72
• 17:30
  P e's in each row.
• 17:31
  So, yeah. About 720
• 17:33
  Pm.
• 17:34
  Plus how many on others? Plus,
• 17:37
  50 ish on the side. Just under a
• 17:39
  thousand. Yeah. That's great.
• 17:41
  I already have plans for expansion.
• 17:44
  But... Yeah. We'll give it a year or
• 17:46
  2 turn Yeah.
• 17:47
  Your a plan soup plant more. Yeah. I
• 17:49
  would like to plant more is in here.
• 17:51
  I have
• 17:53
  the probably 40 different varieties instead of focusing
• 17:57
  on a lot a large quantity of 1
• 18:00
  variety.
• 18:01
  Has this pros and cons I think, but
• 18:03
  I would like to do a couple patches
• 18:05
  of
• 18:06
  just syrup and just... Which a Duchess. So,
• 18:09
  you know, if you cool quantities for some.
• 18:12
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. More quantity then. Lovely. A
• 18:16
  I think we have to go look at
• 18:16
  the lemon shift fund that everyone was going
• 18:18
  Gaga over at at the Sunflower summit. Did
• 18:21
  you cut your precious stock for us? Not
• 18:24
  have a couple that Garden. Yeah. I didn't
• 18:26
  cut these. I don't wanna be responsible for
• 18:29
  d pleading.
• 18:30
  Pee any help.
• 18:33
  Oh, everyone was so happy with these. They're
• 18:35
  so pretty and huge. Huge.
• 18:38
  Yeah. So big. Yeah. So you've been documenting
• 18:41
  them for, like, your websites. Yeah. Yeah. I
• 18:42
  have a photographer coming out next week. We'll
• 18:45
  do APE shoot. Oh my goodness. That's so
• 18:47
  great. So I've been seeing some in the
• 18:49
  cooler too.
• 18:51
  Well, thanks for showing us this fast. So
• 18:53
  I didn't talk a little bit more. Perfect.
• 18:57
  Maybe should we peek inside your agreements? Yeah.
• 18:59
  We can do with a peek there.
• 19:02
  Speed 1 in real life.
• 19:04
  It's opening.
• 19:06
  Only in the picture. So last last year
• 19:09
  you just got...
• 19:11
  Yeah. You're a little above. But production offering.
• 19:13
  Yeah. Oh, that's good. It's so pretty.
• 19:17
  So There's 1 of my most excited for
• 19:19
  that 1.
• 19:21
  Yeah. You can't... If you have 5 children,
• 19:23
  and you can say how many children, who's
• 19:25
  your favorite, But we feel flowers. Yeah. Find
• 19:28
  my favorite to be there.
• 19:30
  Yeah
• 19:36
  greenhouse
• 19:38
  Great. Space. News. Yeah. So we had to
• 19:41
  build it, just with the wind here.
• 19:43
  Have the
• 19:45
  houses and for us. So had to have
• 19:47
  it attached securely and strong delivery.
• 19:51
  So, yeah, We did a lead 2 off
• 19:53
  off the barn.
• 19:54
  We
• 20:03
  once our seed are
• 20:05
  big enough and once
• 20:07
  it's time to move stuff in here. We
• 20:09
  built we actually another shelf here another layer,
• 20:12
  so we can fit twice as many
• 20:14
  seems. Oh, my god Just soaking up the
• 20:16
  sun here. Yeah. And so we also actually
• 20:18
  another thing we didn't we spray painted this
• 20:20
  black
• 20:21
  to help absorb and keep things warmer at
• 20:24
  night here. So our heater doesn't have to
• 20:25
  run quite as hard to. That keep things
• 20:28
  warm here in Canada. When you run the
• 20:30
  heater, is it propane or is a gas?
• 20:32
  This 1 is electric electric. Okay. Which isn't
• 20:35
  ideal.
• 20:37
  We've talked about if future plans actually doing
• 20:40
  an oil, a used oil heater. Like, a
• 20:43
  biodiesel. Yeah. Great. I love the boxes with
• 20:46
  the corrugated? Yeah. Kinda a theme here.
• 20:49
  So you also have some vegetables for the...
• 20:51
  Is it for your own family. Yeah. Just
• 20:54
  for us. Yeah. We like to make salsa
• 20:55
  and sauces and stuff like that. So
• 20:58
  yeah. So right now yeah, mostly. Tomatoes and
• 21:01
  peppers in here.
• 21:02
  See we even can set up... You set
• 21:04
  up drip tape here. Shift tape in here.
• 21:05
  So, yeah, everything's automated.
• 21:08
  So I don't have to worry about it.
• 21:10
  You have to whole thing off your plates.
• 21:12
  And then you have, just in the center
• 21:14
  just other starts and what whatnot? The other
• 21:16
  things that I just haven't quite got bought
• 21:18
  out yet or extras or...
• 21:20
  Things like that.
• 21:21
  Well, Walmart in here and it's a little
• 21:23
  less windy.
• 21:26
  I'd love to just talk about. How you've
• 21:28
  got your business started. This family farm
• 21:31
  is
• 21:33
  it's your... It's not a flower. Right? No.
• 21:37
  How did how did the
• 21:39
  agriculture part of the family start?
• 21:41
  I'm so I grew off part kind of
• 21:44
  on the acreage. My grandpa grandfather's, both farmed,
• 21:48
  1 farm cross saskatchewan. And 1 was a
• 21:50
  dairy farmer locally here.
• 21:53
  My dad had cows, like, you're always around
• 21:55
  agriculture.
• 21:56
  My brother's rodeo. Like all that. Canadian cowboys.
• 22:00
  Stuff Canadian cowboys in Alberta. Yeah. Okay. What...
• 22:03
  How far from here did you grow up?
• 22:04
  I'm fifth... About 15 minutes just outside the
• 22:06
  cart. Oh, my goodness. Then my husband grew
• 22:08
  out 15 minutes that way. Just in a
• 22:11
  little village and
• 22:12
  So we spent some time in the city
• 22:14
  while he was in school,
• 22:16
  but I always wanted to get back. The
• 22:18
  city being in Calgary? Left bridge. Oh, left
• 22:20
  is. Okay. Okay.
• 22:22
  So we san pen, and then
• 22:25
  we moved back out to this area.
• 22:29
  In 2011,
• 22:30
  we were at a smaller acreage, but only
• 22:33
  5 acres. It didn't have enough.
• 22:35
  We wanted cap and horses, and we can't
• 22:37
  fit very much on teenagers acres. So we
• 22:39
  actually found this property and moved here in
• 22:41
  2017
• 22:43
  house Is this town... Did you say mountain?
• 22:45
  Mountain view? View Okay. Just outside and water
• 22:48
  day? Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. How close
• 22:49
  you are to the Canadian Us border. Yeah.
• 22:51
  It's minutes. Yeah. Oh, so 2017.
• 22:54
  That's okay. So
• 22:57
  dipped it a lot Mh in 7, 8
• 22:58
  years. Yeah. Sometimes it's, like, you see because
• 23:00
  it's, like, we haven't got that much. Done.
• 23:02
  There's still so much to do with that
• 23:03
  when you look back. You're, like, Holy cow.
• 23:06
  Oh, we recall. And you built the barn?
• 23:07
  Did you build your house too? We didn't
• 23:09
  build that house. So we've been renovated yeah.
• 23:12
  You're making it work. Yeah. For your... Yes.
• 23:15
  Semi my large family. We bought this property
• 23:17
  for the land, not necessarily the house.
• 23:20
  Been making that. I heard that people do
• 23:21
  that. Yeah.
• 23:23
  And your
• 23:25
  your... Is your farm called P Lane? So.
• 23:28
  Farm. Yeah. No. Not flower firm. No. Just
• 23:31
  Okay. And P lane is a derivative of
• 23:33
  your last name. Yeah. Most people don't know
• 23:36
  that.
• 23:37
  I love that. It it's a per... Like,
• 23:40
  how don't you bored to it? Yeah.
• 23:43
  And the...
• 23:44
  The other stuff that your husband does is
• 23:46
  in is it mostly a cattle. And... Yeah.
• 23:49
  We do... We run Highland Cattle. He does
• 23:50
  a little bit of hay rocks.
• 23:52
  Horses, but he actually works off farm as
• 23:54
  well. He's on electrician at a gas plant.
• 23:58
  Gas plan. So he does work off. Far,
• 24:00
  which is common. Right? Kinda I have to.
• 24:02
  Yeah. Yeah. Because you can't farm you around.
• 24:05
  No. Yeah. Out 3 months if we're lucky,
• 24:08
  so it's definitely...
• 24:10
  You have to have other sources of income.
• 24:13
  When did you start growing cut flowers or...
• 24:15
  Kind of go from being the the Avid
• 24:17
  gardner to us someone with the business.
• 24:20
  So it... For me, it started actually a
• 24:22
  little earlier. Thousand 15,
• 24:25
  when we were still at our other property,
• 24:28
  I was super pregnant, like, June super pregnant
• 24:31
  with my youngest, and I didn't get my...
• 24:33
  Regular vegetable garden planted. So I was like,
• 24:35
  oh, this throughout these black sunflower
• 24:38
  seeds and see what happens.
• 24:39
  And so
• 24:41
  like they grew amazingly and beautiful and it
• 24:43
  just, like, kinda of sparked something, like what
• 24:46
  if?
• 24:47
  You know, like I've never seen it before.
• 24:50
  For was just kind of barely jumping into
• 24:53
  the world at that point. And
• 24:56
  so I would make weekly bookings of black
• 24:58
  oil sunflower seeds. So I'm at the farmers
• 25:01
  market.
• 25:02
  Just just the flowers from that seat. Yeah.
• 25:04
  Just just some flower. Yeah. Okay. Just from
• 25:06
  the chicken feed seed. Oh, I love it.
• 25:09
  So I would throw in a few, like,
• 25:11
  ditch thing ditch flowers like all them forage
• 25:14
  things with it as well. Just
• 25:17
  and then I would take them to my
• 25:19
  mom. My mom was sick at the time.
• 25:22
  So it would take her weekly. And I
• 25:23
  mean black oil sunflower far. Needs they dropped
• 25:25
  a lot pulp. They're not ideal whatsoever for
• 25:27
  cut flowers, but that's but what what else
• 25:30
  learned. Ask for people see it. Yeah. Exactly.
• 25:32
  Yeah. So it's I would take them weekly
• 25:34
  to my mom throughout that summer.
• 25:37
  So that
• 25:38
  Christmas
• 25:39
  that Christmas 2015
• 25:41
  my mom passed. Away she had autoimmune disease
• 25:43
  and lungs.
• 25:45
  Dear. So
• 25:47
  the following year... Following years every year. It's
• 25:52
  has kinda become the way I process my
• 25:54
  grief. I still take my mom week bo
• 25:56
  case so cemetery now.
• 25:59
  It's beautiful. So it's just, yeah. That way
• 26:01
  to connect with hurt, connect with the soil
• 26:03
  in the earth and, like, all the healing
• 26:05
  properties that come with that and,
• 26:08
  have a little bit quiet time in my
• 26:09
  garden no wife from my my family when
• 26:11
  I needed, and... But... But she's present with
• 26:14
  you. Yeah. I believe That's beautiful. Yeah. So...
• 26:17
  From So in a way, she
• 26:19
  inspired you to become a flower from. Yes.
• 26:21
  Yeah.
• 26:22
  She really has. And and, you know, I
• 26:23
  get... I think about that a lot, and
• 26:25
  I think a lot about like... I think
• 26:27
  she would be involved with this as well.
• 26:29
  Like, she loved to garden her landscaping. Like,
• 26:31
  she did all her whole landscaping beautiful.
• 26:34
  So she would be very involved with Well
• 26:36
  too. We have to tell mention her name
• 26:37
  then. Laura Bev. Okay. To Laura. Yeah. Oh,
• 26:41
  my gosh. I wish I hadn't met her.
• 26:43
  Yeah.
• 26:44
  And so
• 26:46
  you... Maybe at that point, this following year
• 26:48
  wanted to grow more and thought you better
• 26:50
  diversify for.
• 26:52
  Just simple sunflower flowers. Yeah. I'd, like, learn
• 26:54
  more
• 26:55
  about what we can even grow here,
• 26:57
  different varieties, like, what makes a about. You
• 27:00
  can't just have a big... I mean, you
• 27:02
  can. Right. But, you know, to expand that
• 27:05
  knowledge and
• 27:06
  learning all the pieces and all the different
• 27:08
  k fillers and spikes and to make a
• 27:10
  real well rounded Okay.
• 27:12
  So that's been
• 27:14
  a learning curve for sure because our cold
• 27:16
  climate. There's, like,
• 27:18
  fill not a lot of information out there.
• 27:20
  There's... So I dove to Flo,
• 27:23
  read all her stuff all her books, like,
• 27:25
  anything I can get my hands on.
• 27:28
  But you still have to, like, translate it
• 27:30
  into.
• 27:31
  So important what Yeah. What zone are you?
• 27:35
  So because of the chin we get, we
• 27:37
  actually fluctuate every year. So I plan for
• 27:40
  it to and hope for a 4. Wow.
• 27:42
  Yeah. I was gonna say 4 to 6.
• 27:44
  Yeah now. 2 to 4. Wow. Okay. And
• 27:47
  that that puts into context what you... We
• 27:50
  talked about with the tulip ups. That's your
• 27:51
  first crop. Yeah. Are you planting the bulbs
• 27:54
  in the fall? Yeah. We still pat them
• 27:55
  in the. Yeah. And you're harvesting a little
• 27:57
  later than maybe I would in Seattle. Yeah.
• 28:00
  So it's... I rarely have Tulip mother's day.
• 28:03
  It's usually the end of may. Okay. I
• 28:05
  have to. Oh, so you've just had, like
• 28:07
  the last month of tulip. Yes. Wow. Just
• 28:09
  Tulip and Da. Yeah.
• 28:11
  Now you're going into the all the
• 28:13
  the annual, the cool annual that we saw
• 28:15
  in some of the perennial
• 28:17
  and the P e's.
• 28:19
  So you told me that the closest town
• 28:21
  car... Ka is a population 3500. Yeah. 500.
• 28:25
  Mountain view is population what. 200. Oh, yeah.
• 28:28
  300 maybe.
• 28:32
  I'm so
• 28:33
  excited to hear how people are responding. Your
• 28:35
  flowers? Because where else are they getting local
• 28:38
  flowers? Yeah. Nowhere. Right? Yeah.
• 28:41
  So how do they... How did you start
• 28:43
  selling it after that first summer? Your
• 28:46
  I did a few markets
• 28:48
  for the first years. I don't love market.
• 28:50
  Yeah. It's not my my thing. Were you
• 28:52
  having to drive it quite a ways? Yeah.
• 28:53
  So I'd have to drive
• 28:55
  an hour give tape depending on much market,
• 28:59
  a lot of packing up,
• 29:01
  it's
• 29:02
  And and then the markets I would go
• 29:04
  to are still small town markets, like, 3
• 29:06
  500 people. And so it just... I... They
• 29:09
  weren't awesome.
• 29:12
  So I mostly do now
• 29:14
  subscriptions. It's my main
• 29:16
  source of income for the farm.
• 29:18
  So I do 2 places I do cart...
• 29:20
  In once a week, and I do let
• 29:22
  the city left bridge for once a week.
• 29:24
  And the subscriptions are mixed bookings? Yep. Mixed.
• 29:30
  I... And in in the spring, I do
• 29:31
  just 2 ups. I don't do mixed stuff,
• 29:33
  but in with the 2 ups just because
• 29:34
  we don't have it it producing here yet.
• 29:36
  Yeah. People don't know. I don't know. And
• 29:37
  they love it, and it's perfect. So, yeah,
• 29:39
  Mix bookings,
• 29:41
  just a basic
• 29:42
  hand tied.
• 29:44
  How do you package them?
• 29:45
  I just do basic, like, sustainability is big
• 29:48
  for us. I don't do plastic. I don't
• 29:50
  do stickers. I don't... Like I have a
• 29:51
  stamp.
• 29:53
  So it's just kraft paper and a dew
• 29:54
  string twine. Mh. Size. So it's... So Basic
• 29:57
  it's
• 29:58
  and Yeah. When people sign up for the
• 30:00
  subscriptions,
• 30:01
  what are your... What are their choices that
• 30:03
  you offer them?
• 30:05
  So for a subscriptions, it's just a 1
• 30:07
  size, but I offer a 4 week free.
• 30:13
  This year's is our first year doing a
• 30:14
  P and E subscription.
• 30:16
  Have you already been marketing that? Yeah. Mark
• 30:18
  can I start tomorrow? Oh my goodness. I'll
• 30:20
  be kinda do the city tomorrow. Is that
• 30:22
  why you were out harvesting this morning? Yeah.
• 30:24
  Yeah. I'm getting ready for that. So what
• 30:25
  are they getting, like, a 5 stem okay?
• 30:27
  The 5 stem okay. I do have a
• 30:29
  a pre 1,
• 30:31
  that offers a 15 stem hey. So I
• 30:34
  didn't sell as many of those this year,
• 30:35
  but I did sell well. So... They... Once
• 30:38
  people serve of C That would they start.
• 30:41
  Yeah. So do you think you can do
• 30:42
  Panties for 4 weeks?
• 30:45
  I marketed it as a... 3 weeks subscription
• 30:47
  for the P. Just because that fourth week,
• 30:49
  I wasn't with storage and all that positive.
• 30:52
  They would be quality. But in future years.
• 30:54
  But in future. Yeah. I for. Because you
• 30:56
  could coat cold store. Yeah. Okay. Wow. And
• 30:59
  so you've got the tulip of subscription. Yeah.
• 31:01
  The P and e. And so then,
• 31:04
  I have this
• 31:06
  A summer,
• 31:07
  1 as well, an 8 week summer.
• 31:10
  Which is all where you mix. You did
• 31:12
  more of a design. Yeah. Those things. And
• 31:14
  so you can purchase the whole season as
• 31:16
  well. Wow.
• 31:18
  Or just yet, kind of those separate. Yeah
• 31:20
  So you're literally rolling from Tulip into Panties
• 31:22
  It's a mixed summer okay. Yeah. That is
• 31:25
  amazing. So our our biggest 1 is the
• 31:27
  12 weeks. So the 4 weeks of spring
• 31:29
  and then the 8 weeks of Okay. Oh
• 31:30
  the pm Are kind of a bonus on.
• 31:32
  Pe are between there Yeah. Do you find
• 31:34
  that that is just...
• 31:37
  I mean it's... This must be more
• 31:40
  of
• 31:41
  economical for you than going to a farmers
• 31:42
  market. They're purchased before you're cutting them. Yeah.
• 31:46
  This and you're doing
• 31:48
  deliveries to a central drop off. So you're
• 31:51
  not going to doorstep. Yeah. In town carts
• 31:53
  and I small. I delivered to the door
• 31:55
  in the city. Got I've... The first couple
• 31:57
  of years, I did deliver to doorstep steps
• 32:00
  through Covid and whatnot.
• 32:03
  But my kids were like, no. Don't do
• 32:05
  that. Are you hoping to train a if
• 32:07
  you want them to do? Media. My oldest
• 32:09
  sometimes will do
• 32:11
  run around for me if I'm busy that.
• 32:13
  So that's your retail Yeah. Off farm. And
• 32:15
  they'll tell me about what you're doing with
• 32:17
  your parties. So yeah. So we offer... I
• 32:20
  call them garden parties. It's just A fancy
• 32:22
  uti.
• 32:24
  So, yeah, People come out in the evening.
• 32:27
  We do... I do a full garden tour
• 32:29
  kind of top about why we grow how
• 32:30
  we grow all those things.
• 32:33
  Then I offer drinks and snacks. We usually
• 32:35
  do
• 32:37
  homemade,
• 32:39
  cookies with flowers from the garden baked into
• 32:41
  them. Well the city is you're been talking
• 32:42
  about. Yeah. So we do those, and then
• 32:44
  we've also done a lavender 1 as well.
• 32:46
  Lemon lavender ones. That was was a big
• 32:48
  hit. Are you growing lavender? Yeah.
• 32:50
  We grow months. Okay. So it's, like, there
• 32:52
  is the most party. Cold hardy. Okay.
• 32:55
  So...
• 32:56
  And then after that, the people
• 32:58
  they get to wander garden and cut their
• 33:00
  own okay to take home. And so as
• 33:02
  you see when we're up in the garden
• 33:04
  with the mountains cave in the back and
• 33:06
  the sunsets, right over top of it that.
• 33:07
  Like, it's
• 33:09
  I love doing that. Parties.
• 33:10
  Oh, my god I'm introvert. I don't... I
• 33:12
  like my space. I like the home, but,
• 33:14
  like, garden parties, I I love those different
• 33:16
  different
• 33:17
  How are you...
• 33:19
  How do you charge and how... What is
• 33:21
  your limit? Bill, you probably you have to
• 33:22
  limit the number of people who come? So
• 33:24
  I currently charge 55 dollars
• 33:28
  a person.
• 33:31
  I did raise that last year. And I
• 33:33
  still sell 5 usually capped at at around
• 33:36
  20 to 25 just so I can help
• 33:39
  keep Yeah. Pass all the questions with.
• 33:42
  And I sell out every
• 33:44
  just about once a week. Oh my gosh.
• 33:46
  Yeah.
• 33:47
  That is so exciting. And you've really been
• 33:50
  blown up. Yeah.
• 33:52
  Wow. That must feel so gratifying Like, this
• 33:54
  is working. Yeah. Even how isolated you are.
• 33:58
  Yeah. People wanna make the drive. And a
• 34:00
  lot.
• 34:02
  Probably only 10 percent of my clientele tell
• 34:05
  are actually from parts of my hyper local.
• 34:09
  Other 90 percent are from over a number
• 34:11
  of which some people are willing to come
• 34:13
  out. They're willing to invest they're willing. The
• 34:16
  to have those experiences and want them. And
• 34:18
  when I do my garden parties, I,
• 34:21
  you know, kinda share how we got started
• 34:23
  and I welcome people and, you know, tell
• 34:26
  everyone,
• 34:27
  everyone's going through something.
• 34:29
  Everyone needs a break, like, just enjoy yourselves
• 34:31
  while you're here and just... Soaking it.
• 34:34
  Sure that space with them. So...
• 34:38
  And then, I I love that. That's beautiful.
• 34:40
  And then do they become, like, clients for
• 34:42
  life? Because you said you're doing some Diy
• 34:44
  buckets? Like, are those the people who will
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  call you if they
• 34:48
  have a party or a bridal shower or
• 34:50
  something like that. Yeah. Yeah. For sure they're.
• 34:52
  I definitely do have a handful of the
• 34:54
  die that, like, support everything and I love
• 34:57
  them. They're amazing.
• 34:59
  But, yeah, It keeps you bring me back.
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  And
• 35:01
  and when they see the love and the
• 35:04
  energy and everything you put into it, like,
• 35:06
  in person, they're more willing to come back.
• 35:08
  That. Yeah. When they need a wedding or
• 35:11
  other things like that?
• 35:13
  I won't I'm wondering, like, what is their
• 35:14
  alternative? Is there a grocery store in town
• 35:16
  that carries flowers or there a turned more
• 35:18
  of a conventional Flores? There is
• 35:22
  Flores in town. Yeah. Men's burial.
• 35:24
  No. A lot of...
• 35:26
  Because silk flowers they offer really like that.
• 35:29
  Like just very old. And maybe things from
• 35:32
  the Ontario are. Action or or a vancouver
• 35:36
  auction or not even that far. Not even
• 35:37
  in that far away. It gets all, like,
• 35:39
  they have no desire for sustainability or local
• 35:42
  or like stuff like that So
• 35:44
  so you're really showing an alternative? Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:47
  Absolutely.
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  And then
• 35:50
  do you do design... Yourself other than I'm,
• 35:52
  obviously your
• 35:53
  subscription customers.
• 35:55
  Yeah. I do offer weddings because we live
• 35:57
  for, like, those Water Lakes National park.
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  And
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  So there are a handful of
• 36:03
  el mint weddings that I love doing the
• 36:05
  wilton weddings. They're simple and just so admit
• 36:08
  and
• 36:09
  that kind of thing. So I do more
• 36:11
  of those than the full scale style events.
• 36:13
  And people come pick up the, like, the
• 36:15
  personal. Speed Yeah. That's great.
• 36:17
  So it sounds like the you pick is
• 36:19
  going to grow. Mh. And
• 36:22
  we'll or the garden parties.
• 36:24
  Yeah
• 36:25
  do you want... Do have other goals that
• 36:28
  you're hoping to expand? I I know, oh,
• 36:30
  I guess the other thing you mentioned was
• 36:32
  plenty more Panties?
• 36:34
  Yeah. So we're hoping...
• 36:35
  Also, hopefully next year
• 36:37
  that our new big patch of panties will
• 36:39
  be established enough that we can.
• 36:43
  As Oh, so you might do a whole
• 36:45
  different party. Yeah. I do whole Just drop.
• 36:47
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 36:49
  Absolutely. We'll see. I'm hoping for next year.
• 36:52
  I think
• 36:53
  they'll be the self question enough that again.
• 36:56
  And then I already have a expansion plan.
• 36:58
  Tell my son. He he's my holding.
• 37:02
  With Pe, I would like to put in
• 37:05
  another 1000 and more. Yeah, would be my
• 37:08
  end goal, I think with with our footprint
• 37:10
  and our available space here.
• 37:14
  Yeah. More
• 37:15
  than
• 37:16
  varieties that I have more quantity though, which
• 37:19
  you could then sell Yeah. For weddings Yeah.
• 37:21
  For weddings.
• 37:23
  When you started with that
• 37:25
  patch of sunflower seeds to take to your
• 37:28
  mom, did you ever think you were going
• 37:30
  to go this hardcore?
• 37:31
  Not at all.
• 37:33
  My goodness.
• 37:34
  No. It's it's been wild to see. It's
• 37:36
  been,
• 37:37
  I remember the first year
• 37:39
  when
• 37:42
  we had the garden parties, and I went
• 37:44
  all in and my husband, like, bless his
• 37:46
  heart. I'm not. He was always so supportive.
• 37:48
  I don't wanna make it sound like he
• 37:49
  wasn't. But at the end of the year,
• 37:51
  he was just, like, I had no idea.
• 37:53
  Like, this was amazing like good job. Right...
• 37:57
  Like a lot of partners. He probably didn't
• 37:59
  get it. He didn't understand. Like, what what
• 38:01
  do you mean girl flowers Like, who's gonna
• 38:03
  come Like, we live way out here. Like,
• 38:05
  what are you thinking, you know? And so
• 38:08
  yeah. Just to see and and that... When
• 38:11
  I started the garden parties, it was the
• 38:12
  year before Covid. Mh And so during Covid
• 38:15
  people wanted out of their houses, like, and
• 38:16
  this was outside, and space, and they can
• 38:20
  sew it, really blew out that. That's amazing.
• 38:23
  Yeah. Wow.
• 38:24
  Well, I'm... So happy I got to stop
• 38:26
  by. I would not have gotten your otherwise.
• 38:30
  Thanks having being in bam, which is the...
• 38:32
  It's, like, still 4 hours. Right. I'm
• 38:35
  really, I invited myself. So thank you for
• 38:37
  saying Yes. Off. The view is breathtaking
• 38:41
  when people come, they probably don't wanna leave.
• 38:43
  No.
• 38:44
  Am I say you're all night. That's fine.
• 38:46
  Oh I love. Yeah. Anything else you wanna
• 38:48
  mention before we wrap?
• 38:52
  Something things. So I just... Yeah. Like...
• 38:55
  Are you are making an impact in your
• 38:56
  community think that's for. And just the education
• 38:59
  of sustainability, like, it's so important. And, like,
• 39:02
  we do no till.
• 39:04
  We, you know, really try to take care
• 39:05
  of the soil as much as we can.
• 39:07
  And are constantly learning new ways to do
• 39:09
  that, and
• 39:11
  just... I'm I'm so thankful to be a
• 39:13
  part of this community.
• 39:15
  And to be surrounded by growers and women
• 39:18
  who also cares so much about sustainability. Yeah.
• 39:20
  And so that's... It's such an amazing. Yeah.
• 39:23
  Thank you. Thank you very much. And, I
• 39:26
  will just say that you are a dynamic
• 39:28
  of member of the Alberta flower farming community.
• 39:32
  I met you... I came through Becky Fa
• 39:34
  me.
• 39:35
  But
• 39:36
  a lot of it is through social media
• 39:38
  because you are quite a distance away from
• 39:41
  Yeah. The edmonton group and the Calgary. If
• 39:43
  there's not... Very many southern Alberta. No folks.
• 39:47
  Well, that could change. Hopefully.
• 39:50
  Maybe someone could come a princess here yeah.
• 39:53
  But it's... You're such a leader, and I
• 39:55
  really... Am I'm I'm grateful for the what
• 39:57
  I've witnessed and how you're
• 39:59
  really bringing flowers to people who never...
• 40:02
  Got a local tulip up before. Never got
• 40:04
  a local candy before. Yeah. It... It's my
• 40:07
  blowing for them. And it it is and
• 40:08
  they're just, like, business the 2. Like they
• 40:10
  have no idea that. Yeah. Anyway. So that's
• 40:13
  wonderful. Okay. Krista, thank you so much.
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