Growing Cut-Flowers Organically

Title: Growing Cut Flowers Organically

Class time and date: May 6^th, 9-1:00 PM

Instructor: Ashley Krest, Stinky Blooms/Field Florals, Lamborn Mesa

Location: Paonia Colorado

Cost: $35

Learn how to grow cut flowers organically.

This spring Ashley will explore some of the introductory ideas behind growing flowers organically.  She will discuss seeding, transplanting, thinning and watering.She will also talk about which flowers to grow, look at seed catalogues, talk about buying plugs and how to select for a season of color.  She give some demonstrations, and take people into the field to do some direct seeding and thinning of seedlings up already.  She will talk a bit about record keeping and just touch on what will be covered in part two on Harvesting/Design and Marketing!

Ashley Krest has been cultivating bountiful fields of flowers, and selling them for the last twelve years. She started Stinky Blooms Flower Farm with her husband Ted in 2000, offering weekly bouquets in Paonia, CO and hauling their colorful bundles of flowers to Farmers' Markets around the Western Slope. Ashley adorns brides with her field floral designs for countless weddings from Telluride to Aspen, specializing in 'green' weddings. She most recently participated in the Aspen Farmers' Market, sharing a booth with Zephyros Farm and Garden. She loves to work with flowers straight from the field, and wants to share in your flower dreams to help make them come true..