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Hi guys . So

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we are trying to sit here and figure out some

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microphone things , but once again we

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are going to talk about Wildly Native or for the first time , Lizzy,

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Liza and Amber sitting

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here, talking and laughing and giggling and

0:33

cussing every once in a while about flowers .

0:34

about flowers .

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But for today we are

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going to sit and

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talk about Wildly Native

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. What is it ? What is a Wildly

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Native ? Why is Wildly Native

0:46

? Where is Wildly Native ? What's

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it for ? Why do we do what we do and learn

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some things that we don't do and that we might take

0:54

the do-do she

0:56

said do-do . So

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, mom , this is you , take

1:01

it away . And yes , my mom

1:04

, you ask the first question

1:06

.

1:07

Okay , all right . So what do

1:09

we do and what we don't do

1:11

? There's a

1:13

lot of times where people have this misconception

1:16

of what we are and

1:18

what we do . So okay

1:20

, years and years ago , in a land far

1:23

away . No , I

1:25

was sitting in the John Deere

1:27

because it has to be green tractor office

1:30

buying our first tractor , and

1:32

my son was with me and he

1:35

was very little , he was

1:37

12 , that's what . I'm telling you that's

1:40

scary . And

1:42

we're sitting in there and they got to

1:44

the part where they had to fill out

1:46

the business name and I looked the gentleman's

1:49

square in the face and said , well , it's Wildly Native . He

1:51

goes huh

1:53

. She was like why we said do

1:56

you dance naked under the moonlight

1:58

? I

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was like , oh my god , no , it's flowers

2:03

. So there's a lot of like . People

2:06

don't understand or they think

2:08

that what we do is 100%

2:10

native flowers and

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we don't use 100%

2:15

native flowers . We grow what we

2:17

use for the majority of the time

2:20

. We don't just walk out into the field

2:22

, scatter seeds and say good luck

2:24

, we hope you grow .

2:26

Because that's what we're pulling

2:28

from to run the business .

2:29

Yeah , we need to know seed counts , we need to

2:31

know exactly what we have and look at crop

2:34

failures and look at all of those types

2:36

of things .

2:36

Cricket , caterpillars . those things this

2:38

year I hate it .

2:39

There's a lot of them . Oh

2:45

. the butterflies are so pretty, a lot of them .

2:48

Do you know what makes a

2:50

butterfly ? Caterpillars of doom

2:52

.

2:53

Yeah , not good , not good at all .

2:56

And , in all fairness , we don't plant in meadow

2:58

style either . We plant in

3:00

a traditional , organized setting

3:03

. Again , we know exactly how

3:05

many whites , how many ivory , how many

3:07

pink and yellow and

3:09

fuchsia .

3:11

And we've been really lucky to with knowing

3:13

a year ahead of time what color

3:15

schemes we're going to need to actually plant

3:18

for because of the brides that have booked

3:20

with us , that know what colors they

3:22

want and if they want more wildflowers . Honestly , those

3:24

are the best weddings that we do because it's fun

3:26

and different and

3:29

I think my favorite bouquet this year was

3:31

cut , put together and

3:33

picked up within the first hour

3:35

and a half that we had and it

3:37

was absolutely beautiful

3:40

. Dahlias, Zinnias, this

3:42

weird cold weather early

3:44

has triggered

3:47

some of our cool season flowers . To come back to

3:49

seeing summer florals with

3:51

spring is so weird

3:54

, but it's incredible

3:56

. We've got a bucket of Scabiosa

3:59

and Tithonia together , mixed

4:01

together . Yeah , we're saying it's in

4:03

Zinnias and Snap dragons .

4:04

Did I see calendula today ? Yeah Right

4:07

, it's literally right there . Wild

4:09

yeah .

4:10

Yeah , like you're still leaving the stone in spring

4:12

, like it's a bright , huge , almost

4:15

like an easy , but it's a bright floral

4:18

Like neon . It's

4:22

insane , but I think

4:24

we should talk about who we are

4:26

, who we are and who we are who's we . This

4:33

is true , this is true , this is

4:35

me .

4:35

These are all the voices in my head

4:37

.

4:39

Yeah , mom , you go first . Oh God

4:41

, okay , ceo of things , I'm just

4:43

the head mess .

4:48

So my name is Liza and

4:51

I am the very proud

4:53

owner of this awesome collection

4:55

of people who work together . Women own

4:58

and run .

5:00

Get it girl , yeah With a little

5:02

hand help every time Wow

5:04

.

5:04

Yeah , will does . No , hey , can you word of the that ? And then

5:06

he shows me how to do it , and so does Dylan and

5:08

so does Josh .

5:09

Every time we know a little muscle to help us out

5:11

, yeah , but most of the time it's

5:13

just us , yeah , delivering and all

5:16

of it . Who run the world ? Girls

5:19

, girls .

5:21

Girls , I don't know what are

5:23

you ? I don't know , that's me

5:25

.

5:25

Where'd you go to school ? I'm going to interview

5:28

you , okay , where'd you go to school ?

5:29

So my undergraduate degree is from

5:31

Delaware Valley University

5:34

in horticulture . Big surprised

5:36

. And for years and years and years I

5:38

thought I was going to

5:41

run a raspberry

5:44

farm . And

5:46

then life happened

5:48

and things changed . I had these

5:51

little people in my life that called

5:53

me mom and that kind of shifts things

5:55

a little . Yeah , just a

5:57

hair . And I got involved

5:59

in some Girl Scouts and some things

6:01

at church and stuff like that and really

6:04

found a passion for education . I loved teaching and

6:06

I was like wait a

6:08

minute , my kids are going to school . I want to

6:10

be able to do school things . I'm volunteering

6:13

. I was like wait a minute . So I went back and got

6:15

my master's in education and

6:18

taught ag for like 13 , 14

6:20

years at our local high school and then,

6:22

COVID

6:25

. I had an absolutely kick ass FFA

6:27

group like we built our FFA from like I

6:39

don't want to say nothing , but I

6:41

had incredible leadership over

6:44

time who taught me what

6:46

FFA was , and we just

6:48

grew and we were Placing

6:50

high in all kinds of competitions

6:53

. We were number four in the Northeast region .

6:57

I have to say , got me into a goal design .

6:58

Absolutely . It was the business group

7:01

that had placed really high . You

7:03

were in the full division , I mean . There

7:05

was so much stuff that kind of came from that

7:07

and

7:09

Connections and community and kids and

7:11

laughter , and you know , it

7:14

gave us a place to kind of play and I've

7:16

always grown things . I've

7:18

I've always done stuff . We

7:20

had a garden for I'm not . I would go out

7:22

with my mom and she would

7:24

plant things and she informed me later

7:26

that she would plant them and I would dig wh ich is opposite of what I do now .

7:36

Outside

7:39

had always been apart of who I am . So this was just kind of a natural bit . Flowers

7:41

and okay , I really

7:43

suck , but

7:54

I've always been able to grow flowers and the

7:56

one day they're the little tequila involved . But

7:59

I was sitting with my friend Cindy

8:01

and she's like , why don't you just grow

8:03

flowers ? I'm being me . She's like why don't you have

8:05

a flower farm ? I was like , why don't we

8:07

even like Costa Rica or something like that

8:10

? She's

8:12

like , all right , so I'm frozen

8:14

bars , so that's kind of I don't

8:16

know . It's kind of where it all

8:18

happened . Yeah , kind of how it started . I

8:21

think the most difficult years , business

8:24

wise , is when you're still balancing school

8:26

and being here definitely 100%

8:31

, and I definitely reached a place where I was like Okay

8:34

, I either , I'm a teacher , mm-hmm or

8:37

I'm a farmer , and then cove it happened and it just

8:39

shifted everything .

8:43

Yeah , I mean , we were one of the only

8:46

when COVID was at its peak and

8:48

mothers thing in Valentine's Day and all that stuff came around

8:50

. We had flip-flops , there was . Yeah

8:53

no one was Shipping

8:55

stuff in , like there was nothing

8:58

from anyone . Everyone was trying to get there , oh

9:01

, cool jacket , like I get it

9:03

with some people . But we kind

9:05

of thrived in that because it

9:07

was we were the people that were

9:09

able to . So far .

9:11

I think if we didn't sound them , they were all literally

9:13

dying in the field .

9:14

Yeah , and we didn't have a storefront

9:16

. The people felt safe because we had

9:19

a barn and you could come and pick up . You

9:21

could pick up outside and not talk to anybody like

9:23

we can leave them on the porch , yeah

9:25

, like it was just .

9:27

I spent so much time . We all spent

9:29

so much time Putting

9:31

together things for healthcare workers

9:33

and dropping things out to make

9:35

it .

9:35

So Thank you , and yeah , just so many , of

9:38

course , all that

9:40

it killed me to watch my flowers

9:42

just die .

9:45

Yeah , that

9:47

does not work , no .

9:49

Yeah , so okay , once while I make hair teacher voice

9:51

Sorry . Um

9:55

, but not too long . After that I

9:58

kind of came along with life in

10:00

general and I went to

10:02

school up at Drillard Valley University

10:04

for three and a half years because I

10:06

don't want to pay for a whole lot of sister . So

10:09

, I was up there for Lansing Design

10:11

and COVID happened after I was there for a year

10:13

and I was remote for a little bit and

10:15

then went back and I was traveling from

10:18

home to Doyle Sound , PA , and

10:20

School and work and Latin

10:23

and being crazy frantic and running around

10:25

like a crazy person . You know I had that

10:27

every time to be able to do that . Um , you

10:29

know , I'm sure some people could say I sacrificed

10:31

my like social life . I didn't even have social life

10:34

. I don't know all those people that like go

10:36

out and drink , like I enjoy working . Um

10:39

, yeah yeah and yeah and

10:42

we just we kick butt for a really

10:45

long time and and I'm pretty cool

10:47

times a whole moment of wondering where I was

10:49

gonna go if I had another option . You

10:51

know , ironically this is my home farm , so

10:53

I didn't really have to

10:55

go anywhere .

10:57

Your commute is terrible .

10:57

Yeah , but then , speaking

10:59

of COVID , amber came along . She

11:02

was here very like , very

11:04

, very , very , very , very very early

11:06

before that . But little did we know that she was gonna come

11:08

back .

11:09

Well , remember , where did we initially

11:11

?

11:11

meet you . Hi

11:14

Hi

11:16

. I was some lost kid on the side of the road that

11:18

picked up one day . Originally

11:24

, I met Liza because I was one of her students in

11:27

the ag class . Okay , okay , okay

11:29

, way back when I played softball

11:31

with Lizzie yes , when she

11:33

was just an itty bitty kid yeah

11:35

, she

11:38

would be out in the field .

11:39

They put her in our field because she was on a tribal team

11:41

with high school .

11:42

I was in middle school , oh yeah .

11:48

He tried so hard .

11:49

God bless him . God , he tried

11:51

so hard . I was just so terrified .

11:55

Okay .

12:00

I still don't talk , all don't get me wrong , but I've

12:03

been conned into playing in an old one , so

12:05

so

12:08

I played softball with Liz for I don't know a

12:10

year or two and then moved into high school

12:12

high school ball and she was still

12:14

in middle school . So even though now it seems like

12:17

we're probably the same age , we're not In

12:21

high school . I ended up in Liza's originally

12:23

biology class oh

12:25

man , that was a hell of a class . And

12:31

then I went into the ag classroom and I

12:34

doubled up on my ag classes for two years out of

12:36

my four years of high school . I spent half

12:38

my day in her classroom . For two years After

12:41

that I actually went to DelVal , so I went to the

12:43

same college as Liza , but I only stayed a year

12:46

because college is not my thing , even though I regurgitated

12:48

information in

12:53

high school . I never once had to learn how to

12:55

study until I went to college , and at that point

12:57

it was too late for me to learn how to study because I

12:59

didn't have connections . I

13:01

couldn't connect

13:04

with anybody that knew how to connect with

13:06

me to teach me . Hey , this is how you study to learn

13:08

things . So I

13:11

left DelVal after a year . I went

13:13

to New York for four years . I came home

13:15

, I attended a graduation party and said , hey , I've

13:17

got some aloe plants . You want some ?

13:22

I said hello , I was like

13:25

I remember Amber from really really

13:27

long time ago .

13:28

So I came over one day . Lizzie had just gotten home

13:30

from the gym . She was like oh hi

13:32

. I went inside , liza

13:37

took me for a walk through the field and I said hey

13:40

, do you need help with anything Ever ? Oh God

13:42

, I really need help . That's what

13:44

helps me . Lizzie

13:47

was so excited to show me the field . She caught me some stuff

13:49

and let me put together an arrangement , and I actually

13:51

see the picture every year now in my memories . I'm

13:53

like , oh yeah , thanks for letting me come out a little bit . I know

13:56

I'd live here half the time .

13:58

We had one wedding for a family friend

14:00

of ours . That was our first

14:02

big kid wedding and we're like oh yeah , we can do

14:04

that in like two days .

14:05

Like two days a day . Can you share ?

14:07

with us some of the stuff

14:09

that we did this year . That was nothing

14:12

, but then that kind of like

14:14

you showed up one day and you're like , can I help

14:16

you ? I was like , yeah

14:19

, that was before we had a

14:22

siding on the side of the

14:24

barn . That was where we had the table

14:26

painted .

14:27

That

14:31

was pre-horse mats .

15:46

Yeah , that was before we had like

15:48

giant stings on the floor .

15:50

Okay , so low key or high key or

15:52

whatever key you may be in . There's

15:54

concrete floors in here . I mean we're

15:56

standing on that all day long . It's really hard in the

15:58

back . So we put worst on mats

16:00

down and that helps soften .

16:02

This is a little bit different , but all

16:04

day long we're standing in here cutting stems and things

16:06

and standing on concrete and eventually we're

16:08

standing on piles of stems and we're like

16:10

our backs hurt . So you know , mom

16:12

, and will come home with horse mats

16:15

.

16:15

It works . I don't

16:18

like to stand in here

16:20

, but sometimes 14

16:23

hours a day , depending on what's

16:25

going on and if I'm making it to the gym

16:27

or not . But

16:30

yeah and okay . So another thing when

16:33

we talk about little things , we

16:35

want you guys to kind of know us for who we are and

16:37

what we like to do . So , mom , what are

16:39

your top three favorite things that

16:42

you can notice for this ? Something that you like to

16:44

do , a place that you love to go ?

16:47

food that you love . Okay , so I

16:49

love ice cream and I love peanut butter and beef . What

16:56

do you guys think I love ? Obviously , the

16:59

canned answer should be my love A lot of

17:01

things for a while . But and that's obvious we're

17:03

all saying yeah , but we're all flower lovers

17:05

.

17:05

Well , we're like you guys . To know us as

17:08

people , that is just voices

17:10

behind a microphone .

17:12

No , I'm a huge nerd , if you hadn't already

17:14

figured that out . I love to read

17:16

, I love to learn . Um

17:21

, you like frogs ? Yes

17:23

, I've

17:26

always loved frogs

17:28

. So the stereotypical like girls

17:30

don't like frogs ? Nope , give

17:32

me a tractor , give me a frog

17:34

and peanut butter ice cream .

17:35

Fun fact , she did get in the newspaper

17:38

one time in the town because she

17:40

kissed a frog . Oh my God , I don't want

17:42

to act like this See , if we go

17:44

back and look , it's probably so to

17:46

the same , oh Lord .

17:49

It was one of those . You won't . You won't .

17:51

You always get too , much

17:53

Clearly it was boy

17:55

, influenced by that .

17:58

But what about work related ? What are your favorite

18:00

things to do at work ?

18:04

I love first thing in the morning . So

18:06

when we hit flowers it'd have to be done super early

18:08

in the morning because

18:11

I mean they have to be fresh .

18:13

They don't like being cut right through

18:15

the day .

18:17

I absolutely love first thing in the

18:20

morning when I go out and I'm cutting

18:22

and putting

18:24

your headphones yeah , I put in one headphone . But I love the birds

18:26

. I absolutely

18:30

love the

18:32

sound of the birds . They're so loud . And

18:37

if

18:39

there's things like I can't sleep

18:41

or I know I have to get certain

18:43

things done , there's a storm coming or something

18:45

like that . There's many nights where I'm

18:47

putting on a headlamp . I'll go out and be

18:49

like 10 , 30 , 11 o'clock and I'll get

18:51

the text from my husband being like where

18:54

I'm like , I'm fine , I'm up , but that gives

18:56

me a chance to listen to owls and all

18:58

of that .

19:02

I will go pretty cool . We've got a

19:04

little . We've got little babies , little guys , little

19:06

children , little lice , little

19:09

barnels and I love to water .

19:12

That's another thing that , like I , get

19:14

to stand there and

19:16

see the progression of this teeny

19:18

tiny seed that has so much potential

19:21

become this absolutely amazing

19:23

. Whatever the plant is that we're

19:25

growing it into you know and

19:27

just I feel like that's

19:30

super satisfying and welcoming in the greenhouse

19:32

and in the houses , kind

19:35

of tricking mother nature . Right

19:37

now everything in the field

19:39

is like frozen and gone .

19:42

Yeah , our zoologies are capped at the most

19:44

, so the dahlias .

19:45

The dahlias are like oh my god . Yeah

19:48

, it's the one in the greenhouse

19:50

, beautiful and covered in buds , yeah they're

19:52

having a second night here . Yeah

19:54

, impressive , pretty cool , pretty

19:56

beautiful . I

19:59

think so .

20:01

Yeah , whenever you're turned up and I'll go last what

20:04

.

20:08

Okay , so in my personal life I read lots of books

20:10

. I am a

20:12

crafty person . I'm rhinestone

20:14

in cups . I am crocheting blankets .

20:18

She has a nice job . She

20:21

has a self promo .

20:25

I love baseball . I'm a big

20:28

time Orioles fan . Very

20:30

sad that it's off season right now , but

20:32

it's fine .

20:33

She actually taught me that there's no corn

20:35

dogs .

20:39

Out of all the softball games that you could show

20:42

me .

20:43

My favorite football league . Yeah

20:45

, I know right . I also really

20:47

love my dogs . I foster cats . I

20:50

never have enough to do , apparently . I

20:53

love filling my time at

20:56

work . I love setting up weddings

20:58

. It can be a whole

21:00

lot of work , but I love setting up weddings . I love

21:02

seeing people watch us put

21:04

it all together and at

21:07

the end of everything just saying wow

21:09

.

21:10

Yeah . Finishing product yeah

21:12

yeah

21:15

, it's not just us , it's like everything

21:18

.

21:20

Yeah , it all looks complete , it's

21:22

like oh , I know you now .

21:25

Yeah , it's so satisfying to see it all

21:27

come together .

21:29

Another thing that I really love . I mean

21:32

, I love sitting around and talking to you guys

21:34

during the podcast it's

21:36

it's it's nice to I have a day job . This is my

21:39

nighttime , weekends job . It's

21:41

nice to get out of my you know , very like

21:43

Mathematical linear job day

21:46

to day and

21:48

come here and use the other half of

21:50

my brain . I don't know what's my third

21:52

one . I

21:54

like looking at pretty things

21:57

, yeah , yeah

22:01

, I think the inverse response

22:03

in time is yeah , yeah , what's this ?

22:05

This is for

22:07

Very tough yeah .

22:09

Yeah .

22:14

Yeah .

22:18

Walk around and touch it .

22:22

All right , we're both throwing it back

22:24

to you , liz .

22:29

Um , I think the

22:31

top three things that I know I guess I'm

22:34

known for around here is definitely all the design

22:36

work , but I

22:38

love the beach . I always have not like

22:40

I go there every single month , but

22:43

I'm a few for the beach , Just

22:45

the warmth and the sun . Technically the

22:48

beach , specifically for the sun , because I'm so cold

22:50

all the time , like it's

22:52

cold in the barn because there's AC . She's

22:54

allergic to the cold .

22:56

Yeah .

22:56

I literally am Happy panel .

23:00

Um . I love the gym .

23:04

I'm a health nut . I

23:07

kind of have been forced to be that way in my life , because if I'm not

23:09

, I literally get sick

23:11

and I have a lot of and I'm

23:14

your funky things that you don't say that everybody

23:16

would have , cause I'm like I got this

23:18

and you know , and they're like , oh , you're

23:20

just kind of looking in , like not their head , and you're like

23:22

, okay , I don't know , what

23:24

that means , but okay . You say that . Um

23:27

, so I'm Jim like health nut . Um

23:29

, I go to the gym I would say almost

23:32

someday , but I've been kind of taking

23:34

it easy lately . I'm not trying to kill myself . Um

23:36

, kind of enjoy the whole . Um

23:39

. And the third thing

23:41

I love sea turtles . I

23:44

love my sea turtles a lot and

23:46

I love my dogs . Charlie , he

23:49

is a white boxer and he is the best hugs

23:51

in the world so . I'm having

23:54

a mental

23:56

breakdown . I was sitting on the floor and he comes over

23:58

and put this out of my shoulder .

24:00

My dogs .

24:03

That happens more often than not , but

24:06

you know it . Just , he's such a

24:08

sweetheart , he's got a big soul

24:10

. Um , we love

24:12

Charlie . Yeah , we love Charlie

24:15

. He's my favorite ever . He just he has

24:17

probably the biggest personality

24:19

in a dog I think I've ever

24:21

met . Like have you seen like the shaggy

24:23

dog , like the movie ? Oh yeah , that's Charlie . Like

24:27

he's like human , like

24:29

his shifty eyes , like his tail , like

24:33

he'll give you like a side eye . Like

24:36

when you're talking about him and he's focused on something

24:39

he'll have like the quickest side eye

24:41

like ever . And

24:43

I love that he like he talks to you , like

24:46

he's like ooh , ooh , it

24:49

just helped me , he cracks me up .

24:51

Um at work . What are your three favorite

24:54

things to do ?

24:55

Um well , I love designing everything and

24:57

I I really like , I

25:00

love the fact that every wedding is different

25:02

. Sometimes they can be pain in

25:04

the ass , sometimes they're absolutely wonderful

25:06

.

25:07

Um , and sometimes the ones that you think

25:10

that are going to be super simple and easy

25:12

.

25:12

Yeah , and that are like well , like

25:14

this flower .

25:15

Oh my God , I get it .

25:19

I hate these , yeah . Or like I

25:22

already pre-made a bouquet and they're like can I come in and look at it

25:24

? I like flowers and like I get that you want control

25:26

, but come in early and on

25:28

time . When you say that you're going to come in

25:30

early and on time . If

25:32

not , I'm making a bouquet . Because

25:34

you're not the only one , let me have

25:36

that bouquet , okay . Um

25:39

, news flash yeah , you're

25:41

not the one in the all . Like you're not , let's keep the

25:43

Norway fun . I can promise you that . Um

25:46

, so yeah , definitely

25:48

, the bouquet is , I think , during

25:50

the day . I love spending the month . I

25:52

love to . I love setup . I don't want

25:54

this to come off as I don't like to set up

25:56

. I love setup , but I love seeing it

25:58

done even more . But I love

26:01

getting the bride her bouquet with a good

26:03

reaction .

26:04

Yes .

26:05

My favorite one this year was the

26:07

tears always making me happy Um

26:09

see people cry makes me happy , yeah , because

26:13

. I made something so beautiful , um

26:17

, so that's always a good feeling , but the one

26:19

react that we had and she had all pink

26:21

shoes up , right , um , so

26:24

I get to post some pictures as of today . Um

26:26

, we're reading for the yard comeback , but

26:28

she probably spent like 15 minutes . We

26:31

meant to standing there like heading home again

26:34

, but , like Good , she's

26:37

telling her bars .

26:38

Oh , was that the one that we put on the buffet in the entrance

26:40

?

26:40

Yes , yeah , we came back inside

26:42

and they were all just like standing there staring , and

26:45

I was like , okay , okay , I

26:48

think there's a little part of gratitude to

26:50

that and we have really small town . We're

26:53

starting to get into my age group of people

26:55

getting married . And you know , we're

26:57

a little bit more Southern , we're not in PA Like we

26:59

do have sweet tea all the time , but

27:02

you know , we there

27:04

are a lot of people that are getting married . Like

27:06

it's just , it's that weird space , it's like

27:08

you know , you're

27:10

either like falling off the face of the

27:12

earth and nobody knows what

27:14

you're doing , or you're getting married and you're having babies , or you've

27:17

already had babies and

27:19

now you're getting married and , yeah , I don't know what you're

27:21

doing , but I can . I've done a lot

27:23

of new case for people that I never . I'm not going to get me wrong

27:25

that I never thought that

27:27

I would be making . Yeah , by the time I've been doing

27:30

this for 30 years , I'll be curious

27:32

to see who and what I've gotten from the kids .

27:34

I've gotten married .

27:34

I've gotten married , I've gotten married , I've gotten married , I've

27:38

gotten married to everyone , so that's the biggest one , and

27:40

then I've gotten married to all the kids .

27:42

Yeah , so I've gotten

27:44

married to all the kids . I've gotten

27:46

married . You know , I've gotten

27:49

married so that we can be all

27:51

the same . And what I've gotten for people , all

27:53

the way back to the very first wedding that we did .

27:55

Yeah , the very first wedding

27:57

we did was a A student , yeah , Cause

28:00

she came to me and Lizzie was . Lizzie

28:02

was standing in the classroom and now I

28:04

have a relationship with her brother through

28:07

my fiance , so it's it's

28:09

. It's it's weird . Yeah , Very

28:11

, very weird .

28:11

Yeah , it's such a I don't think

28:13

it's a circle , I think it's like a weird oval with

28:16

like tangents .

28:17

And it's like wrinkles and less turns

28:19

and tears and happiness and laughter

28:21

. And it's just it , like it just doesn't stop

28:23

.

28:24

She came to us and she was like hey , can you

28:26

do flowers for my wedding ? And I was like no . And

28:28

Liz was like yes . And I was like no

28:31

, we just grow flowers .

28:33

No , no , no , no . I was like why are

28:35

you doing it ?

28:37

I was like come on , come on

28:39

, come on , oh , okay . And we were

28:41

very open In

28:44

place . Actually , that

28:46

is okay . So , while we need it

28:48

, when I say that

28:50

we grow the majority of the flowers that we

28:53

use , her wedding actually

28:55

helps set that business model for us . Yes

28:57

, I'm a huge environmental person . I'm

29:00

gonna do everything I can to

29:02

make the impact correctly

29:04

on the future , for all

29:06

the generations . I

29:08

feel like the flower industry can be incredibly

29:11

wasteful . I

29:13

mean , let's face it , we sell dead things

29:15

. As soon as the flowers are cut , they're done

29:17

. There's no chance of them continuing

29:19

. As much as we can see , we're just prolonging

29:22

the life Exactly . But

29:25

they really wanted to have

29:27

.

29:28

I mentioned the role of like the worst , like

29:30

flowers just grew people and stuck with each other

29:32

. It's so lost . It's so lost , can

29:35

you imagine ? It's weird ?

29:37

It's weird . What was that comment

29:40

that you made to me on the way back from setting up that wedding

29:42

? Can you imagine if the aliens came down to Earth on Halloween

29:44

and saw a whole bunch of our

29:46

skeletons sitting on ? Poles and people's

29:48

yards Like tall skeletons was playing football , Speaking

29:51

of which ?

29:51

I saw one at Like

29:55

. If they came down to Earth they would be like what

29:57

the fuck is this Tall

30:01

foot , taller than their house ? And I mean , I would

30:03

assume that they're smart enough to know what a dead human

30:05

looks like , but they don't know that they're fake

30:07

. They're just picking up people's dead bones out of the ground

30:10

and digging them up tall .

30:12

Making them play football and swing on swings and shit

30:14

. But that reminds me I passed the Boo

30:17

Boo Boss house out on Watch

30:19

Macaulay and there was a

30:21

jeep that had a fake skeleton

30:24

.

30:24

Shanky was running around . I know I

30:28

saw that . I saw him .

30:29

We were driving through town and it was like oh

30:32

, it was making it look like somebody had hit them

30:34

. A human , yes .

30:36

I was like , what in the hell is

30:38

Like what ? Like why , why

30:41

do you think that ? Like , how

30:44

is that okay ? Can you imagine

30:46

if aliens came ?

30:47

and they were like how long is the best time for the

30:50

aliens to come down ? They would turn around and fly

30:52

away .

30:53

I would , oh

30:56

my god . And their trees just

30:58

shen Like

31:00

, can you Just

31:04

spend a year on Earth ? And then they

31:06

go to all these places and like why

31:09

would we go back there ?

31:10

Like why , and in the fall

31:12

they lose an hour yeah

31:14

.

31:15

And then they gain it back Like why ? And

31:17

then there are some places that don't even do it

31:19

anymore .

31:20

And then there , are some places where you have to add a year

31:22

. There's like the gear thing

31:24

, like Bruh .

31:27

Like I don't get it , Like if they went to like

31:29

Africa and then went to like I

31:32

don't know , North Dakota , Probably

31:36

not like Moose , yeah , it would just

31:38

be so like why they're

31:41

I don't know tangent , Okay , so the

31:43

business model the

31:46

business model . They

31:48

run a very specific type of rose

31:50

.

31:52

They want to like the tie dye roses and

31:55

there was a huge strike in

31:57

South America . We

32:00

don't use roses . Yeah , we don't use roses , we don't

32:02

use roses .

32:03

Roses bite you and a meal .

32:05

If we go on Earth , they want us to eat them . They've

32:07

got the ones . Yeah , no

32:09

thanks , no , and

32:12

they're so high maintenance , they're just

32:14

.

32:14

I don't know . I feel like that

32:17

is even the hardest part Sometimes .

32:19

We have a couple roses here and there that we

32:21

do use and I have

32:23

toward the idea of a couple of them

32:26

in a field just to have like

32:28

the little tips again .

32:29

She then no thanks .

32:30

Yeah , but

32:33

no , it wasn't available

32:35

, and so I was like you

32:37

know what ? And all of the trash

32:40

, you know . They get shipped in

32:42

in bulk and then they get broken down into

32:44

boxes , shipped out . They've

32:46

got wrapping , they've got plastic , they've

32:48

got rubber bands , they've got boxes

32:50

, you know .

32:52

The amount of rubber bands that we've collected over the past year

32:54

has been insane . Most of it , we

32:56

just cut and throw out , yeah .

32:59

Like we're never going to use that many rubber bands .

33:01

A couple of them are in tires , you know . It's

33:03

just like it's so wasteful sometimes

33:05

, so that's why we do absolutely

33:08

everything that we can to have

33:10

everything be our own . There are times

33:12

where we do order because

33:14

you know if somebody has a specific request

33:17

. I can't begin a cardinia in August

33:19

locally , but if somebody's heart is

33:21

set on that , because their grandmother told

33:23

them when you get married , please have this

33:25

flower for me . I'm not going to not

33:28

do that , or if somebody

33:30

needs specialty things like orchids

33:32

, like some brides Me

33:35

, but that's because you have them in yours .

33:37

No , I know .

33:39

You set yourself up for that . It is so

33:41

family .

33:43

There is a story about it . It's a rather rickety orchid . It's

33:45

a little bit of a thing , yeah .

33:49

Big ol' back ones . Big ol' back ones . Yeah , well

33:51

, I don't know . You know we don't do orchids

33:53

, we don't do baby scraps , because fuck

33:56

everybody does it . Well

33:58

, there's a lot of flowers that actually

34:01

escape . True , we're

34:04

the make you itch . Yeah , we

34:06

don't grow those .

34:08

Like well , okay , if they're like milking

34:10

and they have that like texture

34:12

, cannot .

34:14

There's some flowers like poppies . Poppies

34:16

are absolutely beautiful . They have

34:18

so many different colors , but they are so

34:21

high maintenance . You cut them and you have to

34:23

burn the bottom of the stems because

34:25

the stack leaks out otherwise and can

34:27

kill the other flowers .

34:29

And there's water hits the slimy . Yeah , Like

34:32

we literally had water turn red in

34:34

like crevices because we forgot one

34:37

that we didn't earn or it wasn't like tough

34:39

enough . And every time you cut it down you

34:42

have to burn it .

34:43

And trying to tuck that into a bouquet and not burn

34:45

the flowers around it .

34:47

I think that we need to talk about poisonous flowers at some point

34:49

, and not just poisonous flowers but , like daffodils

34:53

, need to be housed alone because they'll

34:55

kill everything else .

34:57

Ironically , unless they're in oasis

34:59

I have . We did try that in the spring . We had

35:01

those teapots , we had a couple

35:04

, we did some test runs with them and some of them

35:06

are okay . Oh

35:09

, like , all this sticky stuff got out of it

35:11

. Yeah , so these are things

35:13

that we need to talk about . Yeah

35:16

, the reality of using . We'll

35:19

do like you know , we'll do Instagram

35:21

roulette . We'll do like

35:23

influencer

35:26

, like we'll go on our shared feed

35:28

or what's the feed that you go

35:30

into , like your search bar , and it's like up there

35:32

and it's famous and trending , whatever . It's

35:34

like random . Sure you

35:36

know ?

35:37

sure , let me pull that right now

35:39

Side note , can we do an honorable mention for all

35:41

the other employees ?

35:42

a wealthy native , yeah yeah , you

35:45

go into your search bar and it's all of the featured

35:47

okay random stuff .

35:48

Yeah , yeah , yeah . So like the it's like your for

35:51

you page on Instagram .

35:52

Yeah . So it's like all this stuff , like what's

35:54

the reality ? Cosmos don't even

35:56

get me started on cosmos , we'll talk

35:58

about that another time yes we will

36:00

do Instagram roulette and we're gonna look at a picture

36:02

and we're gonna look at the

36:05

photos and we're gonna tag people

36:07

and I really , really , really

36:09

, I think we should do that . We screenshot them , we

36:11

tag the people and then we

36:14

go behind the reality of what

36:16

it's like to work with things .

36:17

It's not just that , but I think the other thing we need to talk

36:20

about is the price of some things . Yeah , cos

36:23

, that's always . And you know

36:25

, pinterest is awesome , absolutely

36:27

awesome . We can just do Pinterest , I

36:30

mean , there's so many things but

36:32

people have no clue what goes

36:34

into that or how many stens it is , or

36:37

what that looks like or anything like that . So

36:39

who else works for us ?

36:42

Let's shout out about this Our good

36:44

or , oh my God , our good , our good .

36:46

Your good your good , your good

36:49

. We're

36:52

gonna have so many highlights for this one .

36:57

Very , very , very special , ms Cameron

36:59

. She

37:02

is blood , she is fumelia

37:05

, she is seed queen . She

37:08

has probably planted , watered

37:11

, cut , saved , weeded , transplanted

37:13

, transplanted , transplanted

37:15

, transplanted , vertilized

37:18

, pinned , pinned . Every

37:20

single seed flower

37:23

that leaves

37:25

our shop comes in whatever

37:28

, at least once With

37:30

something , yeah .

37:31

We could not function without her . No , no

37:33

.

37:34

No , yeah , nope . Not

37:36

at all , and it's awesome because

37:38

we're to a place now where I can say

37:40

Lizzie's Design , Amber's podcast

37:42

, Kenley's Field , Nicole is

37:45

business and she keeps

37:47

my shins dirty . Nicole's the next one .

37:49

Yeah , segway . Hey , nicole , what's up ?

37:51

Yeah , our good old Nicole

37:53

. She sits across from me and we left

37:56

and we have fun and sometimes it's

37:59

just her name here and we're jammed out to whatever

38:01

this . Oh , I feel like it's the play

38:04

that day . She goes on , Tandems

38:06

Everyone's Smile . She knows what it's Friday . Her

38:08

three phones are yeah

38:10

, my usher . I'm pretty

38:12

sure that's who I usher . Sure

38:14

, Right , Um , pretty new USA

38:17

and get low .

38:19

Um , um , um Um .

38:23

That's when it goes to the wall . She doesn't like that one

38:25

, yeah , but yeah she likes , um , you

38:27

know , like Applebot jeans is

38:29

another one Like when it's Friday Eve

38:31

and Friday and sometimes Saturday

38:34

. She's a minor for us

38:36

.

38:36

Yeah , and then Taylor .

38:37

Swift , john Mayer or Jones

38:40

Brothers . I'm like you play

38:42

whatever you want or she gets into this really weird like

38:44

depressive state .

38:46

I'm like just go on Tandems

38:48

.

38:48

I don't know what's wrong with her , but you know

38:50

we just gotta get through it . So she is another robot

38:54

person thing that uh

38:56

she's talking about the Alexa . Yeah

39:00

, so she's , she's not one and then we're just

39:02

dancing here to Alexa Um , but yeah , it

39:05

goes kind of a honey book behind

39:08

the scenes on the phone . What is honey

39:10

book ? The platform

39:13

that we use to keep the

39:15

culture and proposals and money and

39:17

people and contacts and

39:19

all of the contracts and all of

39:22

the yeah Um , and

39:24

we have a lot of special people that

39:26

help us deliver and help at

39:28

night sometimes . Um , we've

39:30

been we've been to people

39:34

, yeah , just awesome

39:36

, yeah , yeah .

39:38

Yeah , yeah .

39:45

Other than the girls , that you come to work

39:47

for us in the meantime and

39:50

then spring up until now , yeah

39:53

, yeah

39:56

.

40:05

Yeah , I literally just told Kenley the other day . I don't remember the

40:07

last time I worked in the field .

40:08

Yeah , well , we haven't had to do it with

40:11

him since night because we actually have infrastructure to do

40:13

it correctly .

40:14

Well , a , you're not teaching anymore . Yeah , the

40:17

Kenley's not in school anymore . Yeah , see

40:19

, we're a real family .

40:25

We're a real family , yeah , like , like we're a real family

40:27

.

40:27

They're real family . Yeah , it makes a difference , it really

40:29

makes a difference . Mm , hmm .

40:34

So over the next We've got

40:36

cultural diversity , yeah For

40:38

sure .

40:39

Yeah , even with an English woman from

40:41

Florida , they're same

40:43

way . But over

40:45

the next multiple forever

40:48

of episodes , weeks , continuations

40:50

and how many

40:52

weeks we have organized .

40:55

We are pre-scheduled for almost the next year and a half

40:57

.

40:58

Yeah , I mean , we have so many ideas and so

41:00

much stuff that we want to share behind the scenes

41:02

, and there's so much stuff that

41:04

we just people , don't

41:06

know what a flower , farmer , florist

41:08

is , and we are here to educate you . There's

41:11

so many people who are the florist and there's

41:13

so many people who are the farmer

41:15

, but I can be the farmer

41:18

, she can be the florist .

41:20

And we can all function in the same place .

41:24

We all know where we stand Grown and not flown

41:26

. Yeah , 100% . Yeah

41:28

, which is 10 times

41:30

better , because then we don't have all the trash . I

41:32

don't mind unpacking stuff , because sometimes we get

41:34

to use things that you don't always get to

41:36

grow or that our soil just doesn't agree

41:38

with , like stock kind

41:41

of , but can barely grow it . Yeah

41:43

, it's just not . This is not the

41:45

same . I don't know how they do it , but they've

41:48

got it in the pot and it

41:50

just . It helps us .

41:51

Well , and ordering things once in a while

41:53

also helps us see what other

41:56

florists are seeing from some larger growers , because

41:59

sometimes , wow , look , that's really pretty

42:01

in the night and I'm like , oh , that's too small

42:04

. We missed the boat on that somewhere .

42:06

Yeah or we needed to like pinch something

42:08

, or we've got bronchialis

42:10

out the ass that are pink and yellow and

42:12

red and magenta and orange

42:15

and purple , and God only knows what and

42:17

like .

42:18

I'm like too white .

42:21

I mean like wait , because they have a full

42:23

night and we need to look at them

42:25

. So we're not lying , but you

42:28

know , so are the other four , that's

42:34

all they do , well

42:37

, monica ? Well

42:39

, so it's it's . It's a

42:41

lot , but it's a good a lot , you know

42:43

it's 554 in the Monday night in

42:45

November , but this will be out a

42:48

lot earlier than that .

42:53

All right . Well , you now

42:55

know what wildly native is and what it isn't , and

42:57

who we are and who we're not , and

42:59

we're glad that you're here .

43:02

Oh , and listen to the Patreon episode

43:05

, because we get more information at

43:07

yes .

43:11

Doesn't like a draft in ?

43:14

We'll see .

43:15

Maybe stay and listen . You

43:18

never know .

43:20

Anyway , guys , we will catch you next week . You

43:22

can find us everywhere that you string your podcasts

43:25

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43:27

, I don't even know . There are

43:29

like a million places to stream these things at this

43:31

point . You can find us on Facebook and

43:33

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43:35

or at wildly native flower farm . We

43:39

also have a brand new website that is going

43:41

to be beautiful . I

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don't know where else can you

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find us . Call

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me , beat me . If you want to reach me , yeah With

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the 411 . TTYL

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. All

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right , guys , we will catch you next week . We love

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you , bye .