Debra Prinzing
111 episodes listed below
Seasonal flowers, real farms, practical beauty.
Slow Flowers Podcast is a warm, field-level look at cut flowers, floral design, and the people building sustainable flower businesses. Episodes move from shop counters and backyard plots to seedling sales, rose workbooks, farm leases, and spring ranunculus trials.
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Slow Flowers Podcast follows the working culture of local flowers with a patient, generous eye. The show is interested in beauty, but it rarely leaves beauty floating on its own. A visit to House Flowers in Shelton, Washington turns a 100-square-foot shop into a study of seasonal design, sustainable floristry, and the way a florist can teach a passerby to notice more. That scale matters. So do oysters, coolers, street conversations, carbon footprint, and the feeling of putting flowers into the hands of someone who has not looked closely before. Other episodes shift into yards, farms, classrooms, and bookshelves. Sarah Nayani of Grow Girl Seattle brings the conversation into paved driveways, sidewalk strips, backyards, and workshops for people trying to grow cut flowers in small city spaces. Kate Skelton, Carol Wetzel, and Fawn Rueckert show how seedlings and starts can become a business channel for flower farmers as home gardeners want the cultivars professionals grow. Janice Cox brings roses into cooking, craft, wellness, dye, watercolor, and workbook territory. Brianna Selsad-Bosch talks about regenerative gardening as more than a label, connecting soil carbon, cover cropping, ecosystems, native varieties, and community. The show is not only instructional. It listens for the pressure points. Mary Beth Waring describes the search for a long-term lease with water, electricity, and room to grow. Deb Majerus and Joel McDonald describe a Minnesota flower farm shaped by health limitations, perennials, native plants, photography, pressing, cyanotype, and dried flowers. Brooke Palmer turns ranunculus trial notes into practical guidance for growers who want spring blooms without repeating her confusion. Debra Prinzing keeps the pace relaxed enough for these details to breathe. The conversations are admiring without becoming glossy. They make room for revenue, leases, workshops, physical labor, and the quiet pleasure of a marigold border. The show works best for people who want floral romance with the dirt still attached. It is a portrait of a field where craft, ecology, teaching, and small business keep crossing paths.
Made for: For flower farmers, farmer-florists, floral designers, gardeners, and plant-curious makers who care about seasonal blooms, local sourcing, and workable small businesses.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the on-the-ground texture: tiny shops, backyard cutting gardens, farm leases, seedling classes, native plant habitat, and crop-specific growing notes all sit in the same conversation.
The Slow Flowers Podcast is the award-winning, long-running show known as the “Voice of the Slow Flowers Movement.” Airing weekly for more than 9 years, we focus on the business of flower farming and floral design through the Slow Flowers sustainability ethos. Listen to a new episode each Wednesday, available for free download here at slowflowerspodcast.com or on iTunes, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed field conversations show how flower growers and designers turn seasonality, sustainability, and local relationships into workable small-business decisions.
Slow Flowers Podcast follows flower growers and designers into fields, greenhouses, studios, and shops, where creative work meets the practical demands of running a small business.
A farm tour becomes business school, and you learn which beautiful ideas survive the season.
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A reflective flower-shop profile that ties seasonal beauty to practical local craft.
House Flowers comes through as a small, well-defined shop, and the episode gives Megan Homewood's work a clear setting. In Shelton, Washington, with oysters, logging, and the Olympic National Forest nearby, she talks through sustainable floristry, seasonal design, and the value…
A Wenatchee flower farm turns an end-of-season gathering into a grounded story about regional connection.
This single-episode review follows Feathers and Flowers as a small, family-run Wenatchee flower farm using an end-of-season gathering to strengthen its local network.
Abby Zabar turns fleeting Met floral arrangements into a quiet study of attention, craft, and looking closely.
A decade of early morning access to the Metropolitan Museum of Art gives this episode a clear, intimate shape. Abby Zabar, the New York-based artist and illustrator, reflects on how she turned the Great Hall's fleeting floral arrangements into Bouquet, Floral Arrangements at the…
A flower-farm conversation that ties seasonal beauty to the practical work behind it.
Colleen Rainey's shift from celebrated Irish singer to Skagit Valley flower farmer gives the episode its center. The conversation stays grounded in the day-to-day work: growing flowers on a two-acre farm, designing weddings and events through Diadem Flowers, and launching…
A grounded look at flower farming as craft, regenerative practice, and local agriculture.
Dragon Song Farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley, outside Eugene, gets a clear-eyed treatment as more than a pretty flower plot. Jenny Jonak talks through regenerative growing, sustainability, and the case for local, seasonal flowers that can replace imported blooms while still…
A grounded look at specialty cut flowers, solo farm logistics, and the steady work behind a seasonal supply.
Slow Flowers looks at specialty cut flowers as a narrow retail business, and Jamie Rogers of Killing Frost Farm in Helena, Montana, gives it a practical center of gravity.
Practical food gardening for real spaces.
Cut flowers, real fields, honest growing.
Practical permaculture from the soil up.
House Flowers is a jewel box of a shop.
Sarah Nayani of Grow Girl Seattle discusses teaching gardeners how to create sustainable cutting gardens in small urban spaces, sharing insights on flower growing, pollinator appreciation, and income-generating tips for farmer florists.
This episode explores how flower farmers are creating new revenue streams by growing and selling cut flower seedlings to home gardeners and fellow growers, featuring insights from three growers.
This episode features an interview with author Janice Cox about her new book 'Beautiful Roses,' which explores growing roses and using them in cooking, crafting, and wellness.
This episode features Briana Selstad Bosch discussing her new book, 'The Regenerative Gardener's Handbook,' which translates regenerative farming practices into accessible techniques for home gardeners and small farmers to improve soil health and ecosystem sustainability.
A reunion interview with Hudson Valley farmer florist Mary Beth Waring about her journey to secure a long-term farm lease and build a sustainable flower farming business.
An interview with flower farmers Deb Majerus and Joel McDonald about their journey into flower farming, their focus on native plants, and how they cope with physical challenges.
This episode shares a replay of a session on growing ranunculus, with tips and techniques from a seasoned flower farmer.
An interview with luxury floral designer Susan Chambers about her sustainable, foam-free design approach and business.
The host discusses an upcoming botanical tour to Holland and Belgium in spring 2026, featuring a river cruise and floral excursions.
An interview with a microflower farm and ceramics studio owner about combining locally grown flowers with artisan pottery.
An interview with flower farmer Jennifer Galizia about her journey from a small garden to a 20-acre farm and a documentary project.
Interview with Eva Eliasson, chairwoman of Sweden's cut flower farmers association, discussing the growth of locally grown flowers and the Slow Flowers movement.
Slow Flowers Podcast Episode 745 profiles Rachel Burgoon of Feathers & Flowers, a fifth-season flower farm using about a quarter acre of a one-acre family property in Wenatchee, Washington.
Slow Flowers host Debra Prinzing interviews New York artist Abby Zabar about Bouquet, a book collecting drawings made during 10 years of observing floral arrangements in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall.
An interview with the co-founders of Brooklyn's Flower Aggregate, a privately owned wholesale florist specializing in local and sustainable botanicals.
An interview with flower farmers about the business of growing and selling dried flowers, including interplanting strategies and packaging techniques.
An exploration of year-round lily growing with interviews from bulb vendors and growers, emphasizing sustainable practices and local markets.
Exploring the use of herbs in floral design and gardening with experts Stephanie Bittner and Rose Loveall.
An interview with a dahlia grower about her tuber business and passion for dahlias and other flowers.
A tour of a small flower farm on Orcas Island, exploring permaculture and organic practices.
Alicia Houston shares her journey into flower farming and floral design, emphasizing sustainability and creative freedom.
The episode discusses Taylor Swift's engagement flowers and interviews a florist about recreating the look.
An interview with a dahlia grower about her flower farm and the importance of local, sustainable flowers.
Colleen Rainey’s floral path begins in music.
Debra Prinzing visits Dragon Song Farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley and walks through the fields, production areas, and greenhouses with Jenny Jonak.
A walking tour and conversation with Lori and Jim Bochner about their journey from suburban gardeners to owners of a destination flower farm, focusing on agritourism and floral business.
A conversation with farmer-florist Julie Raymond about how she grows and designs wedding florals using seasonal, organic flowers.
This episode features highlights from a book signing party at Sunny Meadows Flower Farm, discussing the farm's 20-year journey and business success.
This episode features an interview with Stacey Chapman about expanding her family-run West Wind Flowers farm into a retail design studio in Gordonsville, Virginia, to promote local and American-grown flowers.
Jamie Rogers’s Killing Frost Farm is tuned for a narrow, demanding slice of flower growing.
This episode features a lecture on flower farming from the authors of 'The Flower Farmers' and a bonus interview with the book's horticulture editor, focusing on sustainable floral practices.
This episode features an interview with the Carrier family, discussing their multi-generational cut flower farm Plant Masters, its transition to the next generation, and their year-round floral offerings for local farmers markets.
This episode features an interview with Marly Surena-Llorens of Fenimore & Rutland, discussing her journey from a greeting card company to a flower farming and floral design business inspired by her Haitian heritage, Brooklyn upbringing, and English aesthetic.
Two flower farmers discuss their transitions from traditional farm stands to elevated retail spaces, sharing strategies for balancing farming with off-site sales and optimizing crop selection.