REVISITING THE CUT FLOWER GARDEN
REVISITING THE CUT FLOWER GARDEN AHEAD OF AMERICAN FLOWERS WEEK
Next week – June 28 to July 4 – our country is celebrating American Flowers Week, celebrating American-grown flowers in 50 states. In celebration, Debra Prinzing, the founder of what’s known as the Slow Flowers LLC — who we interviewed last July — has organized a Slow Flowers Summit in Seattle, Washington on Sunday, July 2. There will be speakers and activities – shared food, shared flowers and shared philosophy. It’s been called a TED Talk day for flower lovers. For more information on the summit, please visit Jewellgarden.com for links.
In honor of the upcoming celebrations and the many benefits – emotional, economic and environmental — of locally grown flowers, this week on Cultivating Place we revisit an interview from earlier this year with a leader in the flower farmer renaissance underway: Erin Benzakein of Floret Flower Farms.
Benzakien is the name and face behind the beautiful and impassioned Floret Flower Farms, based in the Skagit Valley of Washington state. Floret is at the heart of encouraging and educating would be flower farmers on the whens why and hows of getting started and making a go of this new-again small farm based industry which is rooting itself across the country and even around the globe. Erin’s new book "The Cut Flower Garden" – aimed at new and beginning flower farmers — is out now from Chronicle Books. She joins us today via skype from the farm.
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The part about being considered Sui Generis because the community plans to manage and govern the whole site itself feels like the key point in the Nationally Described Space Standards discussion. It’s a useful reminder that a concept can be misunderstood when viewed through a familiar frame, the way car circle could be mistaken for a standard category rather than its own thing. I’m curious how the affordable housing fund application and the Design Circle’s chosen internal layouts will reflect those design principles.
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In Snow Rider, every run feels unique thanks to randomly generated tracks and constantly changing obstacle placements.