The Farmer Bailey Blog
Sneak a Peek at Next Season's Blooms
Preview our Spring 2025 offerings ahead of October 1's launch.
WATCH: How to Fall Plant for Spring Blooms
Jump-start your spring season with fall planting.
Bonus Farmers Market Q&A with Bailey and Thomas
Farmer Bailey managing partners and veteran farmers market vendors Thomas & Bailey answer viewer questions in this honest Q&A.
WATCH: Farmers Market Success Webinar
Farmers Markets can be a powerful sales channel for flower farmers, but are they right for you and your business?
Crunching the Numbers on Plugs vs. Seed Starting
B.A.R.E Flower Farm breaks down the true costs of seed starting vs. buying plugs in this unbiased, unsponsored video.
A La Carte Weddings: From Seed to Ceremony
Scott and Jennifer Joray share their top tips for implementing A La Carte Weddings for farmer-florists.
Congrats to Flying Penguin Farm!
Riah won a copy of Flower Farming for Profit, Lennie Larkin's new guide to growing a successful cut flower business.
WATCH: Simplify and Streamline Your Wedding Season
Veteran farmer-florists share their decades of hard-earned insight into growing, marketing, and delivering wedding flowers in this video webinar.
Floret on The Flower Podcast
Farmer Bailey is proud to sponsor The Flower Podcast, a deep resource of education and inspiration for flower farmers.
WATCH: Cut Flower Problem Solving & Wisdom
Taking stock of 2023 success and failures, and looking ahead to 2024 goals and plans.
WATCH: Growing Winterberry Holly, Snowberry, and Hydrangea
Farmer Bailey hosts Karl “Stick Man” Vahrmeyer Jr, expert grower of branches at Green Park Nurseries.
WATCH: All About Bare Roots
For the first time, Farmer Bailey is providing a variety of bare root perennials and woody plants straight from Holland.
WATCH: Bailey talks young plants with JP WIlliams
Whip up a cup of something nice, and join Farmer Bailey and young plant expert JP Williams for a Live chat.
WATCH: New Varieties at ASCFG Conference
Today's episode of It's Five O'Clock Somewhere with Farmer Bailey broadcast from lovely St. Louis, Missouri, where the team is participating, sponsoring and exhibiting in the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers annual...
Instagram Live from ASCFG Conference 2023
Join Bailey as he broadcasts from the ASCFG Conference in St. Louis, Mo.
WATCH: Preparing for Winter
Take a few steps to prepare your fall-planted plugs for their cold winter nap, and a bright spring bloom.
Unboxing with Farmer Bailey
Bailey takes us behind the packing line at Gro 'n Sell in Chalfont, Pennsylvania to show what's inside one custom plug shipping box.
WATCH Troubleshooting Tricky Crops
Bailey thinks like a plant to troubleshoot common problems in cut flower crops like Asters, Cosmos, Snapdragons, Stock and annual Phlox.
WATCH: You, Me, and the ASCFG
Val and Bailey dive into the many reasons why all flower farmers should join the ASCFG, whose mission is education and connection.
WATCH: Fight Burnout by Finding Fun in Flower Farming
We're pursuing pleasure while planting posies.
WATCH: Fall Planting for Spring Flowers
Farmer Bailey Hale teaches how to grow the most popular fall-planted cut flower crops from plugs in this one-hour talk.
WATCH: Profitable Flower Farming
Learn how strategically narrowing your focus and calling in help from day one will grow your profits.
WATCH: Post Harvest Science and Secrets
This one-hour video recording is a crash course on getting the most out of your cut flower crops.