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Feb 7, 2022 · Launching a flower farm from scratch is hard work. There’s a lot to consider. In this article you’ll learn crucial tips for starting a flower farm business that you can implement from Day 1!
Mar 9, 2022 · Everything you need to start your very own micro-scale flower farm in your backyard for around $200. If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to comment below! Pin for later!
Table 1.1 gives a good sense of the typical start-up costs for a 1-acre flower farm. High- and Low-Maintenance Crops. Some crops need little in the way of specialized equipment or infrastructure. Zinnias are best grown out in the open field and don’t need (and in fact don’t appreciate) a cooler.
- Conduct Flower Farm Market Research. Market research is an important part of forming a flower farming business. It offers insight into developing a flower business plan, including your target market and trends in the flower farmers industry.
- Analyze the Competition. Nurturing a successful flower farm demands knowing the competitive terrain. Luckily, ample tools exist to analyze key players ripe for research.
- Costs to Start a Flower Farm Business. Launching a flower farm carries both blossoming startup expenses and ongoing operational costs. But armed with realistic budgets, your budding business can grow on solid ground.
- Form a Legal Business Entity. Structuring a formal business creates legitimacy and liability protection. For budding flower farmers, establishing an LLC couples key advantages without complex paperwork.
- Seeds + Plants
- Seed-Starting Supplies
- Soil, Mulch, Fertilizer
- Raised Beds
- Plant Support
- Garden + Harvest Tools
- Floral/Bouquet Arranging Tools
- Business Expenses
- Books + Research
- Grand Total: $9,182
This is the most obvious category of things you’d have to buy, so I’ll start with it first (plus it’s the one you get the most excited about!). In almost every case, it’s cheaper to buy seeds and start your flowers that way than to buy them as established plants or even as plugs (which are seedlings grown by other farmers/nurseries for you). This y...
Because we started so much of what we’re growing this year from seed, we definitely needed to improve upon the sad little seed set-up we had before, which was one small grow light and one seed starting tray. We started out by buying 6 of these highly-rated (and decently affordable) grow lights from Amazon, but it quickly became apparent that we’d n...
In past years, I’ve just tried to go for the cheapest option when it came to our soil, which meant getting loads of green waste compost from the local dump. Some years, this worked to our advantage. Other years, we got a bad batch that was still too “hot” for the plants, and it killed most everything we put in it. Even though I would much rather sp...
In order to control the soil and to make weeding and upkeep easier, we decided to build 9 raised beds this first as part of the flower farm, which is where we grew the majority of what we ended up selling. Our raised beds were 4′ x 10′, and 16″ high. We used pressure-treated lumber and wood deck screws. Lumber prices were insane this year, so the c...
While I didn’t use plant support as much as I SHOULD have, I did use it sometimes. Eventually I’ll probably invest in more durable/expensive hoops and frost cloth, but for this year, I went the inexpensive route and tried out two sets of hoops (I liked these ones better), and this frost cloth (which is not durable at all — quite a few got large tea...
While we had a decent number of garden tools already, we still needed some specialized things for growing on a larger scale. In addition to needing to spend a bit of money on some of the more “usual” garden tools like a gardening hat, tomato cages and a metal rake, we also needed to buy several 5 gallon buckets for harvesting, sharp harvesting shea...
Here’s an area that I definitely overspent in — I basically just looked at Floret’s Cut Flower Gardenbook and bought nearly every single thing she mentioned in the “floral tools and supplies” section. However, as I was a bit of a one-trick pony this year and mostly just stuck with doing hand-tied market bouquets, I didn’t need anything like chicken...
This category included all kinds of things, such as advertising on social media (we spent around $110 total throughout the season), the cost of setting up the business as an LLC, a membership to my state’s cut flower farm association, and more. It also included the more expected expenses of purchasing a card reader to take payments, postage to mail...
While you can find quite a lot of information for free online, I found that often the way to get the most important information in the most concise way (and without having to sift through a lot of unnecessary advice) was just to buy some books on the subject. Now, after buying *quite* a few books this first season, I can say with certainty that rea...
Now, in all reality, we could have gotten by with spending less–there were some things we purchased that we later realized we didn’t really need (like much of the floral arranging tools), and considering that I only regularly refer to a handful of the gardening books (yet bought probably between 15-20), I could have cut down there as well. On the o...
Feb 1, 2021 · Where the Money Goes Starting a Flower Farming Business. Say you can swing $3,000 to start your flower farm. That $3,000 is going to be split so many ways in growing supplies alone: Seeds. Seed Starting Substrate. Seed Starting Supplies. Tubers, corms, bulbs. Soil Amendments. Soil Tests. Trellising. Fertilizers. Small tools. Equipment ...
Aug 16, 2022 · Do a “bouquet bar” where people come and assemble their own bouquets and pay by the stem; Do u-picks at your farm; Offer education courses, such as bouquet- or wreath-making nights; Open your farm to photographers for a fee; Offer seedlings for sale in the spring, dahlia tubers in the early summer, etc. Sell your stems to a local florist
