Six Figure Flower Farming

Hosted by Jenny Marks

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October 12, 202628 min

123: Listen To This If You Love Growing Flowers - But The Business Side Is A Struggle.

You can grow gorgeous flowers, know exactly when to pinch your dahlias, and have your succession planting dialed in...and still feel completely lost when someone asks about your margins, pricing, marketing, or profit. That doesn’t mean you’re “not a business person.” Running a profitable flower farm is simply a different skill set than growing flowers, and those skills can be learned. We’re talking about how to identify the business skill that’s actually holding your flower farm back, whether that’s profitability, pricing, marketing, sales, or efficiency, and why you don’t need to master everything at once. If you want to build a sustainable flower farm business that pays you well and gives you the freedom to keep doing the work you love, it starts with learning the right skills one step at a time. Six Figure Flower Farming opens 10/13 - Learn more here: www.trademarkfarmer.com/enroll Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. Join Jenny for a FREE live training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note

October 5, 202656 min

122: How This Farmer Raised Prices By 30% - With ZERO Pushback (With Lydia Of Hen Hill Cut Flowers)

What changes when you stop guessing at your flower farm numbers and start running your farm like a real business? In this episode, I’m talking with Six Figure Flower Farming Alumni Lydia Watson of Hen Hill Cut Flowers about how understanding her costs, profitability, and pricing gave her the confidence to raise her flower prices by 30% with zero customer pushback. After a season of overwhelm and barely keeping her head above water, Lydia is now profitable, tracking her numbers, and making decisions based on data instead of gut feelings. We dig into the practical systems that helped her build a more sustainable flower farming business, including crop record keeping, task batching, time blocking, managing expenses, Profit First principles, focused marketing, and knowing when to outsource. Lydia’s story is proof that you don’t need acres of land to build a profitable flower farm. You need strong business foundations, clear numbers, and the confidence to step out of the role of “just a grower” and into your role as the CEO. Find Henhill Cut Flowers Online: Follow Lydia on Instagram: @henhillcutflowers Check out Lydia's Website: www.henhillcutflowers.co.uk Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. Get your personalized profit roadmap: www.trademarkfarmer.com/roadmap Join Jenny for a FREE live training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note

September 28, 202623 min

121: Overwhelmed In Your Flower Farm? (What To Do About It)

Feeling overwhelmed on your flower farm doesn’t always mean you need more hours in the day. Sometimes the real problem is that everything feels important. When you’re juggling harvesting, marketing, crop planning, sales, and a never-ending list of new ideas, it’s easy to stay incredibly busy without knowing if you’re actually moving your flower farm business forward. In this episode of the Six Figure Flower Farming Podcast, we’re talking about how clarity can reduce overwhelm and help you build a more profitable, sustainable flower farm. You’ll learn why knowing your numbers matters, how to identify the three priorities that deserve your attention over the next 90 days, and why a simple, concrete plan can help you stop chasing every new crop, sales outlet, or marketing strategy. Because sometimes the answer isn’t working harder or becoming more efficient. It’s choosing better. Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. Get your personalized profit roadmap: www.trademarkfarmer.com/roadmap Join Jenny for a FREE live training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note

September 21, 202651 min

120: How Amanda Built a More Profitable Flower Farm by Doing Less

What if growing fewer flowers could actually help you build a better flower farm business? In this episode, I sit down with past Six-Figure Flower Farming student Amanda Keene of Flowers on Phoenix to talk about how she has simplified her farm, become more intentional about profitability, and built a business that fits around her family and the life she actually wants to live. Amanda shares why she stopped trying to grow every beautiful flower she could, how looking at her numbers helped her prioritize certain crops, and the surprising marketing strategy that generated a $1,000 order shortly after she started using it. We also talk about the efficiency changes that have saved her time, why she’s willing to buy flowers from other growers instead of doing everything herself, and what she wishes she had done differently when she first started flower farming. If you’ve ever felt like your flower farm is taking over your life - or wondered whether doing less could actually make your business stronger - Amanda’s story is one you’ll want to hear. Follow Amanda Online Instagram: @flowers_on_phoenix Website: www.flowersonphoenix.com Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. Join Jenny for a FREE live time+ profit training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note

September 14, 202632 min

119: Brutally Honest Advice To My Beginner Flower Farming Self

If I could sit down with myself as a beginner flower farmer, there are a few things I’d say a whole lot sooner: learn your numbers, stop trying to be affordable to everyone, and remember that your time is not free. A sustainable flower farm business isn’t built by working harder and harder. It’s built by understanding what’s profitable, pricing intentionally, using your time wisely, and investing in the business skills that help you make better decisions. In this episode of the Six Figure Flower Farming Podcast, I’m sharing my brutally honest advice for building a profitable flower farm, from why revenue isn’t the real score to why overwhelm doesn’t mean you’re doing it right. Most importantly, you don’t have to build the flower farm everyone else has. You’re allowed to create a profitable, sustainable business that actually supports the life you want to live. Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. Join Jenny for a FREE live training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note

September 7, 202628 min

118: The Truth About Profit Margins On A Small Flower Farm

What should your flower farm’s profit margin actually be? The truth is, there isn’t one magic percentage. Profit is something you intentionally create, manage, and protect. In this episode, I break down why two flower farms with the same revenue can leave their owners with wildly different incomes, and why simply selling more flowers isn’t always the answer when your business isn’t profitable. We’ll walk through five of the biggest flower farm profit levers : sales, pricing, product and crop mix, expenses, and efficiency. You’ll learn how to identify where the greatest opportunity exists in your farm, use your numbers to make smarter decisions, and build a more profitable, sustainable flower farming business without automatically adding more markets, more flowers, and more hours to your workload. Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. Join Jenny for a FREE live training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note

August 31, 20261 hr 7 min

117: Scaling A Flower Farm To New Heights With Karl Of Green Park Nurseries

If you’re building a flower farm for the long haul, this conversation with Karl Vahrmeyer of Green Park Nurseries is one you’ll want to hear. Karl shares what nearly 50 years of family farming has taught his family about scaling a flower farm sustainably, staying financially lean, planning years ahead, and letting customer demand pull the business forward instead of forcing growth. We also dig into the less glamorous skills that make a growing farm actually work: delegating, hiring and retaining employees, adapting your management style, building strong business relationships, and learning from expensive mistakes without letting them derail you. If you want a profitable flower farm that can support your family, your team, and maybe even the next generation, this episode is packed with practical perspective on building a business that lasts. Follow Karl on Instagram: @green_park_nurseries_inc Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. Join Jenny for a FREE live training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note

August 24, 202626 min

116: Why Your Marketing Isn't Working And What To Do Instead

If your flower farm marketing isn’t bringing in sales, the problem might not be your Instagram reach, your local market, or even your competition. It might be much simpler: people don’t actually know what you sell. Whether you’re trying to book more weddings, sell flower subscriptions, move more farmers market bouquets, attract wholesale florists, or fill workshops, your marketing needs to make your offer crystal clear within seconds. In this episode of the Six Figure Flower Farming Podcast, Jenny Marks breaks down three questions every flower farmer should ask: What do I sell? How do customers buy it? Why should they choose me? You’ll learn how to audit your flower farm website and social media, remove friction from the buying process, use photos and testimonials as social proof, and focus your marketing on the products you actually want to sell. Because clear marketing beats clever marketing every single time. Join Jenny for a FREE live training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note \

August 17, 202622 min

115: 5 Ways To Increase Your Flower Farm Revenue This Month Without Doing More

Growing more flowers is not always the fastest path to more revenue. In this episode, Jenny breaks down how flower farmers can increase their average order value by making more thoughtful offers to customers who are already ready to buy. A simple upsell, a well-designed bundle, or a larger purchase option can add meaningful revenue without adding more beds, more markets, or more hours to your week. You’ll learn practical ways to pair bouquets with greenery, vases, gift wrap, or other local products, plus how quantity pricing can increase total profit when you know your costs. Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. Join Jenny for a FREE live training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note

August 10, 202646 min

114: Starting Over And Alternative Income From Content With Sarah From Bloom + Gray

Starting a flower farm from scratch does not have to mean buying every piece of equipment, installing expensive infrastructure, or following someone else’s exact blueprint. In this episode, Jenny talks with Sarah Gray of Bloom and Gray about rebuilding her flower farm in a brand-new field, keeping startup costs low, preparing beds efficiently, protecting crops from pests, and choosing practical systems that fit her current season of life. They also dig into regenerative flower farming, cover crops, compost quality, soil blocking, grow tents, and the simple tools that can make farm work faster and easier on your body. Whether you are starting a flower farm, moving to new land, or reshaping your business around family, travel, or another passion, this conversation is a reminder that sustainable farm business growth starts with building a flower farm that works for your goals, resources, and real life.\ Find Sara Gray Online Follow her on Instagram: @bloomandgray Check out her website: www.bloomandgray.co.uk Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple or Spotify. Join Jenny for a FREE live training: www.trademarkfarmer.com/training Follow Jenny on Instagram: @trademarkfarmer Find free flower business resources: www.trademarkfarmer.com/note