Buying From Becky: Engineered To Fail Part 2
Anyone getting the heebie-jeebies lately around the monetization of the flower farming dream? Just me?Becky posing with perfect hair and...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Jan 18
- 4 min
Engineered To Fail Part 1: Filling Big Foot's Footprint
Nothing has quite the immediacy of planned obsolescence that cut flowers do. A fancy phone may be designed to crap out in a few years....
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Nov 22, 2022
- 7 min
Taking Stock: Part 2
It's been 10 months since I wrote Taking Stock and tried my hand at annuals for the first time, throwing literal seeds in the wind to see...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Apr 5, 2022
- 5 min
That Which We Call A Rose
There is a bewildering mass of buzzwords hanging around floriculture that veer from substantive practice to solely marketing. As a...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Jan 21, 2022
- 2 min
Happy Fun Ball
Today suddenly accelerated to warp speed in the best way. I got to meet several fantastic people from local shops, farms, and animal...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Jan 13, 2022
- 4 min
Taking Stock
Most often, complaints I read from flower farmers focus on the agony of the wait and capital usurpation required for slow maturing...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Dec 30, 2021
- 2 min
Day 4. Under The Weather
2 minutes or 2 days. Whether I'm missing the ferry by a slim margin or missing planting time by days, small measures create some pretty...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Dec 11, 2021
- 3 min
Day 3. What Knot To Do
It felt like forever, but in reality, I was waiting less than a year to plant the first peony in our fields. The dream fresh, my...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Classic
There's this space that I drive by on my way to my work at the farm. It's breathtaking. Rolling hills of pasture framed by firs which...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Nov 28, 2021
- 3 min
There's Gold in Them Fields
It's worth taking a minute to introduce you to the linchpin in our efforts to achieve sustainable peony growth: our alpaca herd at Pine...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Nov 24, 2021
- 3 min
Day 2. A Hill of Beans Worth It's Weight In Gold
It was 10am before I made it outside with an unsuspecting storage tub and a shovel. I quickly filled the Sterilite with some precious...
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Tinuviel Lathrop
- Nov 21, 2021
- 2 min
Day 1. 11.20.21
Today was the day we broke ground on the first field. Despite the overwhelming rains this November, the day yielded sun and beautiful PNW...
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