The Farmer Bailey Blog

Wondering when to plant your Snapdragons, Campanula, Digitalis, Poppies, and Delphinium in the fall? Tune in on Wednesday! 

Enter to win a free tray of Scoop Scabiosa in the #FarmerBaileyScoopContest, now through July 31, 2023.

Scoop Scabiosa, Focal Scoop and Bon Bon Scoop have revolutionized the use of Scabiosa as a cut flower.

Scoop Scabiosa, Focal Scoop and BonBon Scoop are fluffy, lush, dramatically larger than their predecessors, and almost too productive to keep up with harvesting!

Think of the Farmer Bailey team as your friends with experience in flower farming, floral design, sales and entrepreneurship. We exist to help you succeed!

Learn how strategically narrowing your focus and calling in help from day one will  grow your profits.

This is your last chance to order top of the line cutting strains of Gerberas in 2023.

This one-hour video recording is a crash course on getting the most out of your cut flower crops.

Join Farmer Bailey on Instagram Live this Wednesday, May 10 for a short class on the science and secrets of post harvest care. 

What is the one thing you wish you knew when you started out?

Perennial "Big Burly" plugs are overwintered, putting on spring growth and ready to ship.  

Drawing on his 30-plus years of experience operating Cate Farm in Vermont, Richard Wiswall breaks down how to manage finances, crops and staff–while turning a profit. 

Colleen and Orca Bates grow Lisianthus and Delphinium alongside cannabis and hops at Muckland Farm.

Farmer Bailey is back on Instagram Live for an open and honest discussion about the business of flower farming, for new and established growers alike.

Learn how to up-level your flower quality and how to price your stems in this one-hour video created for specialty cut flower growers and farmers.

"Take advantage of all the good gifts and good people flowers can bring into your life."

Have Champagne Bubbles for breakfast.

Increasing your price per stem has an instant, powerful impact on your profit margin and topline revenue. But how do you command a premium price? By improving your flower quality.

Mustard is a well understood biofumigant effective against fusarium and other soil pests. 

Farmer Bailey talked everything plugs in this March 22 Instagram Live session, with an emphasis on caring for and transplanting the perennial plugs many of you are currently receiving. 

That long anticipated moment has arrived. Your plugs have been delivered! Now what?

Don’t panic! Our "Big Burly" perennials arrive in a dormant state. 

The Farmer Bailey team raises our Champagne Bubbles poppies to you, and to all of the new life awakening in the Earth. 

On Saturday, March 18 at Noon ET / 9am PT we will have a rare, scheduled on-sale for our ready-to-ship Available Now plug trays.