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Welcome back to the Flower

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Files . Here

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is Liza . Lizzie

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and Amber . Tonight

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you get a special treat . You get to hear

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all about the flower farmer reality

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.

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What do we do ? Yeah

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, what actually happens . So

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what goes on day to day , not in

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down season , but now

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and in the summer .

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So I feel like there's this common misconception

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. When somebody

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says farmer , there's the stereotypical

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picture of a cover-all's

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attractor and

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I don't know , like tools

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and things like that Well , the whole field

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being covered in flowers

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and everything looks so beautiful

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and perfect . You say flower

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farmer . It's a very different reality

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. Yeah , a different farmer .

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I think of the picture of the man and the woman

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and the guy's holding the pitch fork and then

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he's stereotypical , and that should

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be a whole separate episode that we talked

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about that way .

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In fact , this is fired up . Yeah really

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Really , yeah , really , but

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I OK

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. So flower farmer . A lot of the times people go

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, oh wow , that's really

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neat or well , that must be fun

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, which makes a lot of sense

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, but a lot of the times the

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reality behind it is

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not somebody

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wearing dresses and somebody walking through the

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field and everything's princess , and wonderful

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and pretty .

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And the birds are chirping and the insects

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are , you know , insecting .

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Or butterflying .

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Yeah .

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Because people picture and we do . We

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have butterflies in moths , and that's perfectly

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fine , but they don't

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. They don't think . They think of honeybees

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and bumblebees .

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Yeah , they're not always pretty .

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No , they're not always pretty . Sometimes they're they

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sting and I don't like those . Some of

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the flowers are itchy and some have

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thorns .

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Yeah , it's not all sunshine

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and butterflies .

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No , it's not , it's not , it's not , it's

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not . So what do

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we actually do ? A

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lot .

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I feel like we cover a lot of bases . I

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mean , we do floral work , we

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work in the field . I feel like a mix between

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of what Kenly

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has or is

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going to talk about is a huge component

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, if not more than half the business , because if we

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didn't have that side

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, we wouldn't have the product on

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the other end , we wouldn't have

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the flowers .

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So we spent a lot of time , obviously

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, in the field . We are I

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don't want to say we're digging , because we're not digging

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giant holes unless we're putting in a shrub or a

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bush or something that we

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need but we're

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planting plants in

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the field . But before we have the plants

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we have to plant the seeds , and before we plant

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the seeds we have to have the numbers , and before we

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have the numbers we have to know what the theme and

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what some of the flowers are for

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that season . So there's a lot of this .

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Just bridge me . I feel like , in

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a sense too , at least from looking on Instagram

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, there's a flower farmer that

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still grows flowers for weddings and

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there is a flower farmer that grows flowers

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to grow them . If that makes sense For wholesale

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, well yeah , but for wholesale

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, but for testing and

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seeds and for

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just for the flower farm

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purposes Like how

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that all works is a whole thing in itself

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. But I mean we

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just balance between one , two , I

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would say three different worlds , because a little

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bit of landscaping the

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field and then the full design side

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.

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Like Definitely , definitely . And

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I think that landscaping side is really like we're

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not cutting the grass and we're

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doing some really specific

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gardens . Somebody wants a very nice

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cutting garden . We do a lot of

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consultant work as well . Just

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to you know , somebody says , hey , I want

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this . Ok , great , here's ideas

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.

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And just for knowledge , like I feel like that's another

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thing that we've tried to do

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is we have a lot of people ask us questions

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Like hey , how do I do this , or what about

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this or what about that ? And then they're like , oh

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well , I didn't know that that was a thing , or I didn't

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know that that could happen that way

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, or whatever it may be

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, I feel like we're customer service

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as well Like we're

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bird service as

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well . I don't know . I

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don't know how to explain the realities of

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it all , because there's so much to it

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.

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There's so many pieces . Yeah , there's so many

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pieces . I can tell you one thing we're very good at because

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we weed the hell out of things .

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Yeah .

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I mean we've got so many different

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methods that we've tried and used . We

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use the , we

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use the landscape fabric where we burn the holes

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. We use a thinner

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fabric in the perennials because it gives

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them a jump start to get started

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, but then it doesn't

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it allows them if we have to cut a hole

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open or something like that . It's a really

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thin fabric that we use for that

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. We use mulch , we use newspaper

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and mulch in the perennials . We've

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done just regular black paper . We've

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got a black plastic mulch layer

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that we use with cornstarch fabric because

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that biodegrades . So trying to

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figure out , for instance , we

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found that in the wintertime

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the cornstarch fabric is a

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little tougher to use because there's so

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much longer of a season

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that that has to really hold up for . So

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we tend to use that more in the summer . We

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use the landscape fabric where

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plus

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? How do I explain this

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? Like the landscape

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fabric is thicker , it traps

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more heat , so it's really good for us , for

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the wintertime and for

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spring .

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it helps control weeds and

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it's easy to

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pull stuff out , because if you pull stuff out of the cornstarch

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fabric it rips . You've

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got a massive hole where more weeds can

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grow .

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Not just that . If it rips and it starts to blow

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, yeah , and that just that's

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it . As soon as that starts to blow , that's

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the end of it . Yep , and it just starts to blow out

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and it billows all up . Nope , we're done

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.

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So in the mornings we go out and we're cutting

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and the birds are beautiful and the insects

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they start chirping and all the fun stuff

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. But we fight foxes

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and deer and hornets and

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rabbits and all kinds

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of other things that are not as

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pleasant . I'm just really glad we don't live

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where there's kangaroos .

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No kangaroos and no most other

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things that we're saying . There's

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something else that I saw on Instagram that was really specific

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. It wasn't

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a deer or anything . I

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think in Texas or something

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, you've got pings that

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come in and they just destroy everything

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.

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Yeah .

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Like that's big .

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They're just straight up mean yeah , they're

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so thick skinned , yeah , and

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they're like that's just what I like about them ?

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I don't have customers . Yeah , I would not want to have to deal with them

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.

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I'll take the deer , I'm okay with that . Yeah , I'm

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okay with that . I'll put up a fence and be done with it .

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Yeah .

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But I feel like a hog would just like barrel

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through that or dig very efficient

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at digging Like I don't

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know ?

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No . And

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then this year , those cat locusts . We

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have cats . I love the cats . I'm

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not an anti-cat , but , Jimmy Crookets , we've

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gone out and we have agribonds and we've

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covered .

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just to preface the cats , we have two cats

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that are outside cats . They're

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not like feral cats with

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like from . No , they're not

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random , they are our cats by choice

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.

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And they trip us in everything .

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Yeah .

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But they go out . And if

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there's something underneath the agribonds

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, we have all the cold season stuff that's covered

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with hoops and covered with agribonds and

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it's weighted down with sandbags

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so it keeps the frost off and it gives it a couple

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extra degrees and it keeps it warm protected . Oh

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my God , the cats have discovered that if they jump

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on the middle of it they can go through it

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. So we have cat sized

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foals in that agribond . Oh my God , it's like get out of my field

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.

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I feel like who is ?

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that , just like get out of my field ! get out of

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my garden . Oh , yeah

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, yeah .

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Oh my God , why are you in here ?

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They have to scale . How

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many feet tall is that fence ? 10 feet tall

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, yeah .

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They go in the door . I mean they follow us there

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, which , like in the morning , is fine when we're

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cutting , but you know , when you

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don't know , yeah , but when you're , when you know

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that they're not in there with you , like that's a

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big animal to not know that's next to you , because

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birds , you'll hear them like rustle through , the like

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through the stems or leaves or whatever it may be , and

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you're like , oh , that's not a , it's not a mouse , please

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don't be a snake , please don't be a snake . Yeah

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, I have seen more little

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rodents than I ever thought that there

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were because of them , like voles

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, never seen one until Pique

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got one . Ever ever Like

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they just Keeps catching

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them .

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I like depositing them . Here you go .

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Yeah , you like look , mom , look at what I

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got . I'm like thanks , you can take that back

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outside now . I don't want that on my front step . Yeah , yep , yep .

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Yep , yep , I think we spent a lot of time checking water too ,

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I think that that was a great choice . They were , they were

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, you know , very interesting . They were , they were

10:07

from the joy of here . So I had a lot of trouble Looking

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at water and I , just I had a lot of trouble with the drinking water and I

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was like that's not the point . I was probably checking

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water too , I think , from knowing how to grow

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the plants in the greenhouse , knowing which ones , Like bottom

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water , like light water , like you know , a wet or start

10:19

, and all of that kind of stuff , when

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to transplant , when to fertilize and then really watching things Once

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they go out in the field .

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I can't control If it's too much water . I can't control

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that solutions

10:28

. I personally have water

10:32

. I think that I've been weeding a

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row underneath of a sprinkler before

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and I just . It's the dead of summer

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, so I don't even mind . It's nice cold water

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.

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Yeah , honestly , weeding

10:45

under a sprinkler is great when it

10:47

first starts , and then , when it starts to

10:49

get muddy , it gets messy .

10:50

Yeah , it does .

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It gets really , really messy and

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it's like ouch , and

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I mean I think one of the other things that's

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not called out very often is dude

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. It's stressful Like you're

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looking at your entire crop in a

11:05

field , like there have been multiple

11:08

times where I've been standing there waiting for snow

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or waiting for a storm

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to come or something that's just about

11:15

ready to pick , and you're so excited that something

11:17

comes through like a fox

11:19

in the poppies

11:21

and they are chasing after something

11:23

and they just take out an entire section

11:26

.

11:26

Yeah , and they break it .

11:27

Yeah , they just barrel right over there

11:29

Because it doesn't mean anything to

11:31

them . They're after the toad

11:35

, the mole or the vole or the shrew or whatever else is

11:37

out there , naturally , but it's

11:39

. I mean , I don't

11:41

want to say it's stressful , but it's stressful .

11:43

I mean you're standing out there looking at a field and

11:45

going , okay , the next storm could take the

11:47

whole thing out and that's my income .

11:49

That's my livelihood , that's my grocery money

11:51

, that's my life , yeah , everything

11:54

.

11:54

Or when we have

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to cut buckets of flowers

11:58

because there's rain coming or storm

12:00

coming , and some of the flowers

12:02

are really delicate , like they will break like

12:05

the Godechia that we had this

12:08

spring . It lasted it

12:10

kind of blooms all at once , but it lasts like five days

12:12

. Yeah , we cut so

12:15

much of them and then .

12:16

I think that was it , yeah

12:18

, and then it got hot . We had that real heavy rainstorm

12:20

and all of a sudden it just got hot and they were like

12:22

we're done yeah

12:24

yeah , goodbye . That's

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why it's important to have rotations . That's why it's

12:30

good to know your annuals versus your perennials

12:32

and your seasons . I mean

12:35

, I'm part of the Maryland Cut Flower

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Association group and there's

12:39

all kinds of conversations on there

12:41

where , towards the fall , some people are

12:43

like I am so tired of using this

12:45

plant and this plant in my

12:47

bouquets , like in their flower

12:50

bouquet farmer style stuff , what

12:52

else you suggest and the

12:54

think tank that comes out from that group

12:56

of people is awesome . It

12:58

is awesome . Huge debate now about

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how everybody is overwintering all of their

13:03

eucalyptus . Some people

13:05

agribon it , some people cut it down

13:07

, some people individually wrap

13:10

all of their eucalyptus with burlap

13:12

and I was like , oh , my god , I was like we

13:14

have 300 feet of eucalyptus

13:16

. That not happening no

13:19

way so and it's the first

13:21

year we've cut half of it and we've

13:23

left the other half because it hasn't gotten damaged

13:25

enough yet yeah we're still

13:27

able to cut that and it's been awesome but I

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don't know , I don't

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know , I don't know . I'm

13:34

so afraid to like try

13:36

to do something , because we haven't done things

13:38

in the past and it's been fine yeah

13:40

, but I'm afraid that if we do something this

13:42

year , I'm gonna screw it up yeah

13:45

, I know we've had that patch for how

13:47

long now for

13:49

this four years . Yeah , those times

13:51

are big . Yeah , that

13:53

first short patch

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was the first one , and

13:58

then we added another one , and we

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added another one like little

14:02

sections , and now we have 300

14:05

feet total with four

14:08

different varieties of eucalyptus mixed

14:10

in there , yeah , just about four , yeah

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yeah , it smells good

14:15

and that is my happy

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place . So

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I don't know , I I

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think it takes a lot of communication , it takes a

14:23

lot of support , it takes a

14:25

lot of and

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let's just , let's just call it what it is it takes a lot

14:29

of guts , takes a lot of guts to

14:32

do that and hours yeah

14:34

, yeah , we don't just get up in

14:36

the morning , run out to the field , spread a bunch

14:38

of seed and wait .

14:39

Oh my god , that's what people .

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I all the time they ask wait

14:43

, do you just like , scatter the seeds out there and

14:45

wait for it to grow ? It's like , not even slightly . What

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like ? How would you have a

14:50

plan ? How would you know your numbers ? How would

14:52

you know ?

14:54

how could you promise anything to a bride doing

14:56

that ? No ? Yeah no

14:58

we're just imagine being

15:00

like oh yeah , I really want to hire you for

15:02

my wedding , but how do you run

15:04

your business ? Oh well , we just pick

15:07

whatever you know . Wildflower variety

15:09

, the , the is in season store

15:11

has and we go out there

15:13

and spread all the seed and hope for the best

15:15

.

15:16

No , yeah , no no

15:19

, no no and

15:21

that's why we're constantly

15:23

planting , because then we constantly have something

15:25

new and fresh I mean

15:27

if maybe the same thing or very

15:29

similar , but you have to know your

15:32

hues , you have to know your textures , you have to know the different

15:34

styles of flowers

15:36

I mean a lot of our stuff is interconnected

15:38

to , like our seeds or

15:40

what we need for our bridal bouquets

15:42

, like it's .

15:43

I feel like landscaping is kind of its own island

15:45

in a way , like it did kind of deals with

15:47

itself , but with

15:49

the flowers , like we cut stuff from

15:51

out in the back . We're starting

15:54

some really cool projects that are coming up

15:56

and they're based

15:59

off of the plants that grow around us naturally

16:02

here on the farm . We're incredibly

16:04

lucky for that . But you know , there's like

16:08

without Kenly and her spreadsheet with all

16:10

of the seeds , like we wouldn't have the

16:14

flowers . But if we didn't have the brides

16:16

asking for the colors that they want , we

16:18

wouldn't know in order , right , like

16:20

unless we work more wholesale , focused

16:22

and you just grow everything , but we don't

16:25

do that . We don't grow tons and tons

16:27

of like both more

16:29

radiant purple , like

16:31

we just we don't , unless it's like specifically

16:34

asked for . Like we just we

16:36

don't . We don't grow a ton of red unless

16:38

it's in a zinia mix , because nobody's

16:41

really asking for it , unless they're specific

16:43

with an idea . Yeah , like it's just

16:45

not a . Yeah

16:47

, I mean you guys tell us what , what

16:50

we need , like it's not the market

16:52

drives what we grow .

16:54

We also spend a lot of time in the winter

16:56

really looking at trends and figuring

16:58

out what some of the new things

17:01

are that , yeah , are coming .

17:03

Yeah , like a great

17:05

example is pantone . They just put out their

17:08

color over there peach buzz . There's

17:10

gonna be so much pink and peach , which is fine

17:12

. I'm a fan of peach . It is in my

17:14

color scheme as well but do the textures

17:16

right , yes , please

17:19

, yeah . And like

17:21

I know white is

17:23

so pretty , but give

17:25

me , give me break on white , like

17:29

I love , if I feel like when we do

17:31

white we try to focus more on texture than

17:34

on just the color

17:36

. Yeah , because if it's roses and babies

17:38

, it's just not no , because that's

17:40

not who we are , and we've told people like hey , we

17:42

don't think you're a good fit for us because we

17:44

don't do that like , and I and

17:46

I think we've done a really good job of sticking

17:49

to that and not being like well well

17:52

, we can figure it out yeah I

17:54

will say that we are doing a couple

17:56

of roses this year , a couple testers

17:59

, but we're doing garden roses yeah

18:01

, we're doing specific varieties .

18:03

We're not going to grow anything that the lungs

18:05

down . I mean that's . I

18:07

don't think that's realistic . No , I mean

18:09

there's there's . There's

18:12

no reason for us to do that .

18:14

Yeah , no reason whatsoever yeah

18:16

, that's more for your wholesaler people .

18:18

Yeah , and if we need them , we

18:21

have a license for it , like it's

18:23

just how it is yeah

18:25

, absolutely well

18:28

, there are times where people will say , you

18:31

know , say we're doing something with a bride

18:33

or we're doing something special , even for

18:35

a funeral . I've done it where somebody's

18:37

like , listen , I really need this , and

18:39

I feel like most of the time , it's

18:41

gardenia's that I end up trying to

18:44

locate and find um

18:46

, and

20:01

I will contact the wholesaler and

20:03

, you know , see if that's something

20:05

that they can get a hold of for

20:07

us . Yeah , but it's not all the

20:09

time , mm-hmm , definitely

20:12

not all the time . I think one of the other things

20:14

that again isn't

20:17

talked about or and isn't

20:19

necessarily understood is

20:21

staffing . Yeah , you

20:23

know , have you find the people

20:26

who want to do the

20:29

things that it takes , the

20:31

people who are willing to get

20:33

up super early , who are

20:35

willing to work in the heat

20:37

, who are maybe on the flip side

20:39

, willing to work at night ? So , yeah

20:42

, yeah .

20:44

I mean , but that's , that's what it is , though

20:46

like we don't have a normal nine to five .

20:48

No , we just we

20:50

don't the

20:54

cats knew we talked about them . Yeah , outside

20:57

me out and speaking of the cats , yeah

20:59

like no , no , no , so

21:03

, but , and trying to find the people

21:06

not only who

21:08

want to do the work , but who can

21:10

do the work , yeah , and have the personality

21:12

for it .

21:13

Sometimes there are people that are like , oh my god , I

21:15

love flowers like

21:17

yeah , like show me , your green

21:19

dirty fingers from stripping flowers

21:22

? Yeah , like so do we like

21:24

my ? After I strip

21:27

snapdragons and strawflower my fingers are green . Yeah

21:29

, like in the winter time and

21:32

like underneath my nails right now they're

21:34

white , but in like the spring

21:36

, summer and fall , like they're like brown

21:38

to green underneath , like

21:40

it's stained .

21:41

Yeah , they like they don't come off

21:43

no , and drying cracked is like

21:45

a very real thing yeah very

21:48

real thing ?

21:49

yeah , without a doubt it's . You

21:51

know it's not easy . No

21:53

, like it's not . Oh , my god , you get to play with flowers

21:55

all day . I know that's what Kenley said , but we

21:58

, yeah , we get to play with flowers all day , but

22:00

it's not

22:03

all pretty , but it's not play .

22:06

That's not playing . Every

22:08

stem has a value unless we're

22:10

told , unless we're told to play , and that's when stuff

22:12

is really good well

22:15

, that's like a style shoot or like , hey

22:17

, we have a whole bunch of extra flowers when we do it yeah

22:20

we're , I don't know .

22:21

You just do what things look , what you think looks

22:23

best , and then we don't ever get me a picture back and

22:25

I get really butt hurt

22:26

. So please

22:29

fill up with good , send us some of your pictures . Have you

22:31

ever seen me yet ? I really

22:33

really , really , really , really like you see , like

22:36

our onesie , twosie , like bouquets . I

22:38

really do enjoy doing like they're

22:40

just so personal and so cute , like

22:42

I just love them . They make me happy something

22:46

personal about it .

22:47

Yeah , and that's the thing I

22:50

also think . Flowers tell a story oh

22:53

yeah , totally .

22:54

I was scrolling on into earlier and if

22:56

someone came to me and said you know what I

22:58

want ? A wedding that is

23:00

like the color

23:02

of like a bum movie black

23:05

, yellow , like white

23:08

and like rainbow

23:10

colors , there was anything

23:12

was on like but

23:15

like but like black and

23:17

yellow . So , like your problem , they had

23:19

black chairs , they had black

23:21

tables , they had yellow

23:24

, like pale yellow napkins

23:27

, a charger of some sort

23:29

, some weird checkered

23:31

yellow and black candles

23:33

, like deeper candles that are

23:35

like painted , and then in the center are

23:38

like big bowls , like frog

23:41

, like bud vases

23:43

and things like that . I was like huh , not

23:46

what I would have chosen , but okay yeah

23:48

, okay so your

23:53

instagram is way different . I don't know if it was instagram

23:56

or tik tok .

23:56

It's probably not instagram like

23:59

I was just kind of scrolling and I was like , huh , I saw one thing . It's

24:01

like that's not normal

24:03

. I have to go back and see if I can find it . But oh

24:06

my god , if I think it was in DC

24:08

and it was grand

24:10

. It was just grand

24:13

, like overwhelming , like you had to watch

24:15

it two or three times to catch everything . Room

24:18

was just and it was all in winter

24:20

, so it was deep . Greens

24:23

, reds , whites popped

24:25

, but like trees inside

24:28

these huge pedestal stands , like

24:30

the girl's dress would have fit like 300

24:32

people . I swear

24:34

I don't know how she functioned . It

24:37

was just wow

24:40

, wow , wow , wow . Yeah , it's crazy

24:42

, crazy , crazy crazy what people do

24:44

. It was .

24:45

It was like princess level

24:48

yeah , they get different tax brackets , uh

24:51

, yeah for

24:55

sure , speaking of taxes , oh

24:57

, that's a whole

24:59

other topic .

25:00

When you start talking about this side

25:02

of business , that is the actual

25:05

business . You've got marketing

25:07

, you've got budgeting . You're trying to figure

25:09

out . I have to do this work

25:11

and get these things done and have

25:13

this infrastructure in place for

25:15

the upcoming season or the close of this

25:17

season but we're not pulling in as much

25:20

revenue . so how long do I keep certain

25:22

employees for the season ? You

25:24

know , do you , do you

25:26

cut them off and then try to figure

25:28

it out . Is it better to play catch up

25:31

or to be preventative ? And

25:33

then what does the weather look like ? And

25:35

then there's all the legal stuff

25:37

, and then the stupid insurances

25:40

.

25:40

Yeah , yeah , the insurances , the insurances

25:42

, the insurance hates goats 100%

25:46

.

25:46

Yeah , really . So all of you goat yoga

25:49

people . I'm very sorry

25:51

, but

25:53

it might not be happening any time soon .

25:55

Yeah , well , I think it has

25:57

happened . So we've done goat yoga for multiple

25:59

years on the farm and I

26:01

think what has happened with other

26:04

people who've done goat yoga is they

26:06

do it with larger goats . When

26:08

we do goat yoga , we do it with little babies

26:11

and we can see throughout

26:13

the season when they're really

26:16

little the umbilical cord is still attached

26:18

fresh , like super tiny

26:20

, like a couple days

26:22

old , super sweet . It's not late . They

26:25

are , they don't last the entire class running

26:27

around . They kind of hop around and then

26:29

they pick somebody and they snuggle and they're done , I

26:32

think that's kind of what people picture . Give

26:34

it a couple more weeks and

26:37

they're a little more rambunctious . They're

26:40

kind of like chewing

26:42

on people's straws in their cups . They're

26:44

dragging their keys , they're stealing their blankets

26:47

, like it's a little more interactive . Yeah , dude

26:49

, when it's multiple months , they're

26:51

running around and I get nobody in a concussion

26:53

.

26:54

Yeah , because they jump on you .

26:56

And not just that , but they run 110 miles

26:58

an hour actually , and then jump at

27:00

the last minute .

27:02

Yeah , I'm not a fan of goat yoga . No

27:04

, not a fan

27:06

, I love goats .

27:10

Lizzie's always like no , I'm not , I'm

27:12

not home that night . Yeah , I like the little

27:14

ones , big ones .

27:16

No thanks , I think . Not an animal running

27:18

at me , no

27:21

, I will do puppy yoga or something else

27:23

, but go look at no ? eye . Can

27:27

not be me .

27:28

I want to do kitten yoga with a human society

27:31

. Yeah , I have like adopt a kitten

27:33

night of yoga . I just have to like,

27:35

the humane society sometimes it's

27:37

weird about that stuff though . Yeah , they're

27:39

worried about things leaving the farm Well

27:42

, and I think they're also worried about how

27:45

old the kitten is and is it OK

27:47

to be handled .

27:48

You know what I mean .

27:50

It's that weird fine line of what's

27:52

right .

27:52

I mean , we foster so much . You know that

27:54

, yes , they

27:57

have to be the right size , the right

27:59

everything , yes . So

28:02

I don't know , what are we missing ?

28:06

Man , we do so much , I know , yeah

28:08

, and

28:11

here we podcast .

28:12

Yeah , and we blog , we

28:14

do art and crafts , yeah , we

28:18

do a lot of stuff we do .

28:19

We really do yeah , we don't shut

28:22

down the website for two weeks and then just

28:25

don't have the website up . Yeah , some

28:27

people that are like oh yeah , I'm going to have the website

28:29

shut down for like two weeks

28:32

. I'll just upload it . Do

28:34

we update that thing every single day with photos

28:36

? Yep , every single day . That

28:38

might take a while . We just switched two

28:41

weeks ago .

28:42

What do you think it was ?

28:43

A month . What was that month ago ? Two weeks ? Two

28:45

weeks ago we went to a different software

28:48

program , a different website builder . So it's been

28:50

like a trial and error , at

28:52

least on my end , for all of us . But

28:55

we like

28:58

that took some time for sure . But

29:00

we're not just like oh yeah , we're just going to turn

29:02

it off . Why would you turn

29:04

your website off for two

29:06

weeks ? We wouldn't be

29:08

able to make any money .

29:10

Yeah .

29:10

How do orders come in ? Like

29:12

I don't know .

29:15

Well , I think that's the difference

29:18

we're always running All the time

29:20

. People picture flower farmer

29:22

. We pick , we make a bundle

29:24

, we go to the farmer's market , we

29:26

sell , maybe at a grocery store . I feel like

29:29

that's what people picture . We

29:31

hear different . We're a flower farmer

29:33

, florist , so people will call us with like

29:35

hey , my daughter's got a birthday

29:38

today .

29:38

Hey , I've got her bath folks

29:40

and candles and a lot

29:43

of different things . Yeah .

29:45

I mean the girls are busy , I

29:48

mean we have all of those other

29:51

things . The only thing we don't have , that I've always

29:53

been like I'm not doing , is

29:55

soap , because I feel like everybody does

29:57

soap .

29:58

Yeah , because I have soaks

30:00

. We just don't do normal

30:03

soap .

30:04

Yeah , yep , yep , yep

30:06

. No , baths are cool . A

30:08

little floral impugnation .

30:10

Yeah , without a doubt , I feel like we

30:12

do it significantly too . This is not just like here's

30:14

your stuff in a jar , like we get a little bag

30:17

. Your train doesn't get clogged Like

30:19

. We've learned that from our

30:22

way .

30:22

Yeah , I mean somebody who has old

30:24

pipes , or I yeah that

30:27

could be detrimental 100%

30:29

100% . Now I

30:31

want it to be something that was fun , that

30:33

made sense and , quite honestly

30:36

, there's so many times where we're

30:38

stressed from a meeting or

30:40

stressed from setting or stress from

30:42

all kinds of stuff that

30:44

trying to figure out how to relax

30:47

baths soaks are natural .

30:49

Yeah , it's perfect , but

30:51

that's just scratching the surface . Yeah

30:54

, yeah , we

30:56

will for sure get into more down

30:58

the road . Awesome .

31:01

I think that closes the stuff . I think it does

31:03

.

31:04

All right , guys , you can catch

31:06

us all on Apple Podcasts , spotify , anywhere

31:09

you get your podcasts . We have a

31:11

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31:13

blog A blog . We have a podcast

31:16

. Yeah , I can't read the podcast . Did

31:18

you know ? We have a Patreon

31:21

page . You can find us at Welcome to the Flower

31:23

Forum or the Flower Files , I

31:25

don't know . You know those

31:27

colors , text , those Call me , beat me

31:29

when you want to reach me . That's

31:32

it for this week .

31:34

Yeah , have an amazing week and I hope

31:36

it's flower casting we love you

31:38

guys , bye , bye

31:40

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