One of the most popular ways of making money from flower farming is by offering a CSA bouquet subscription. CSA stands for community-supported agriculture, and all it means is that your customer pays you upfront at the beginning of the season for a “cut” of your crop (in this case, flowers). The upfront payment provides some much-needed cash flow in the spring (when expenses are often the steepest), and while the consumer does take on some amount of risk, they also become invested in the profitability and well-being of the farm since they literally have basically become an investor in…

When I first decided to really go for my dream to start a backyard flower farm, the process was seriously daunting. There was so much to learn and although my knowledge of cut flowers was growing, it was still pretty bare bones. As I worked hard to get my farm up and running those first few months, I had to spend my time divided pretty equally between three pursuits: 1) actually growing the flowers and doing farm-related chores, 2) doing the behind-the-scenes work on the business such as social media posts, spreadsheets for taxes, etc., and 3) researching like crazy…

In the past few years, flower farming has seen a distinct boom in the U.S. While there used to be relatively few sources you could go to if you were wanting to go into growing cut flowers for profit, there are now more than you could ever read / watch / follow in a lifetime. However, I have found relatively few sources that give actual hard and fast numbers for what it costs to START one (although occasionally you’ll get a ballpark figure–I’ve seen some saying as little as around $600 and some saying $20,000+). Obviously there will be variability…