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Slow Flowers PodcastEpisode 705: Growing Flowers in the Edible Garden, with Willi Galloway, author of “Grow Cook Eat”https://youtu.be/cq7Uf-SBTC8?si=w8z2EoJRqN1NqrfP
Master Gardener and writer Willi Galloway is a home gardener who loves to grow food and cook with the vegetables she harvests from her urban kitchen garden in Portland, Oregon. An award-winning writer and radio commentator, Willi is the author of "Grow Cook Eat, a food-lover’s guide to vegetable gardening." Originally published 13 years ago, the essential handbook has been updated and just re-issued, with a focus on 50 flavorful vegetables, herbs, and fruits. I invited Willi to tell me more, and our conversation touches on the importance of growing flowers wi...
2025-02-2641 minSlow Flowers PodcastEpisode 703: The New Art of Paper Flowers with Quynh Nguyen of Pink & Poseyhttps://youtu.be/Qr-Di1slgMQ?si=sHuKvg69KD_g4MIf
Join Quynh Nguyen, the paper artist behind Pink and Posey, as she shares her decade-long journey in paper artistry, from crafting her first floral arrangement to co-creating the Papertalk Podcast. Quynh is the author of The New Art of Paper Flowers – just published in late 2024. She has produced fine art paper floral installations for Nordstrom, Creative Live, Fran's Chocolates, and many more commissions, including collaborations like Greenwood Rising in Tulsa, Oklahoma; plus, CBS Sunday Morning and a recent book talk at Portland's iconic Powell's Bookstore. Quynh inspires creativity within the fl...
2025-02-1257 minSlow Flowers PodcastEpisode 567: Portrait of a Local Flower Pioneer, with Seattle Wholesale Growers Market’s General Manager Brad Siebe, including updates about their new ecommerce platformhttps://youtu.be/rt5m6fkz6ME
If you are a longtime Slow Flowers member or follower, you know that the origins of our organization are closely rooted with those of the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market.I was present at the 2010 regional meeting of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers, which was held at Charles Little & Co., in Eugene. That's when a group of Oregon and Washington flower farmers began to discuss banding together to establish a new flower hub in the Pacific Northwest. They studied the model of the Oregon Flower Growers Association, a producer-owned cooperative founded in 1942...
2022-07-2046 min
Social Creative ConversationsThe Color of Beauty with Lorene Edwards ForknerListen in on this powerful conversation, but also bring your eyes. Sit down, go for a walk, or get your hands in the dirt while you give yourself the spaciousness to slow down and see beauty, and the colors of beauty. I had the opportunity to speak with Lorene Edwards Forkner, of A Handmade Garden, about her life as a horticulturist and horticolorist , her love of art, gardening, and the tenderness she learned for herself and others during the writing of her 5th book, Color In and Out of the Garden. This book was written from a deep...
2022-05-111h 09Slow Flowers PodcastEpisode 556: A floral conversation with Andrea K. Grist of Florasource KC and KC Bloom Hubhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDnRJ-O4dN8
I love it when I can host a Slow Flowers member on a Seattle visit, and now that travel is again opening up, I have a feeling 2022 will be a busy one.
Last month, Andrea K. Grist, a long-time Slow Flowers Society member and friend, spent a few days visiting Seattle. She is a past guest of the Slow Flowers Podcast and a wedding and event florist based in the Kansas City metro area. Five years ago, Andrea assumed the management of Florasource KC, a locally-owned independent flower wholesaler based in Overland P...
2022-05-0445 min
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenColor in & Out of the Garden, Watercolor Practices for Painters, Gardeners, & Nature LoversIn preparation for May and Mother’s Day here in the US, we’re in conversation with Lorene Edwards Forkner, a gardener, a writer, a cook, a mother, a daughter, the garden columnist for the Seattle Times, and known as gardener cook on-line.
Lorene joins CP this week to share more about her artistic garden-based daily practice for the last four years, which has resulted in the new book: Color in and Out of the Garden, Watercolor Practices for Painters, Gardeners, and Nature Lovers, out now from Abrams Press.
The practice and the book are invitations to lean into her own m...
2022-04-2854 minCultivating PlaceColor in & Out of the Garden, Watercolor Practices for Painters, Gardeners, & Nature LoversIn preparation for May and Mother’s Day here in the US, we’re in conversation with Lorene Edwards Forkner, a gardener, a writer, a cook, a mother, a daughter, the garden columnist for the Seattle Times, and known as gardener cook on-line.
Lorene joins CP this week to share more about her artistic garden-based daily practice for the last four years, which has resulted in the new book: Color in and Out of the Garden, Watercolor Practices for Painters, Gardeners, and Nature Lovers, out now from Abrams Press.
The practice and the book are invitations to lean into her own m...
2022-04-2854 minPlayfulness Archives - Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra PrinzingEpisode 554: A garden and studio tour with Lorene Edwards Forkner, sharing her new book “Color In and Out of the Garden”The tagline for today’s episode should be “how to see nature’s palette in deeper, more meaningful ways,” because that’s the lesson Lorene Edwards Forkner wants to share with everyone. As many of you know, Lorene is a dear friend and inspiration to me in all things horticulture. She is an author, artist, and speaker; you […]
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2022-04-2041 minSlow Flowers PodcastEpisode 554: A garden and studio tour with Lorene Edwards Forkner, sharing her new book “Color In and Out of the Garden”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHWlQb2k7Ss
The tagline for today's episode should be "how to see nature's palette in deeper, more meaningful ways," because that's the lesson Lorene Edwards Forkner wants to share with everyone.
Lorene Edwards Forkner (c) Mary Grace Long
As many of you know, Lorene is a dear friend and inspiration to me in all things horticulture. She is an author, artist, and speaker; you can read her GROW stories every week in the Sunday Seattle Times, and catch her daily on Instagram, at @gardenercook, her popular feed.
Lorene is a past guest of...
2022-04-2041 minSlow Flowers PodcastEpisode 513: On “Growing Wonder,” garden roses for floral design with Felicia Alvarez of Menagerie Farm + FlowerToday's guest is Felicia Alvarez of Menagerie Farm + Flower (c) Jill Carmel Photography
June was a super-busy and invigorating month and I have lots to share with you! I'm recording the intro to today's episode on July 5th. Yesterday, my husband and I arrived back in Seattle after driving home from the SF Bay Area, my car filled with Slow Flowers Summit supplies; my heart filled with love for our amazing community of members, supporters, sponsors, partners -- and especially the small but mighty Slow Flowers team of creatives who work with me. Oh, and my mind spinning with ideas...
2021-07-0749 minSlow Flowers PodcastEpisode 507: Slow Flowers Summit Preview with Kellee Matsushita-Tseng and Emily Saeger on Sustainable Farming x Floral DesignThe Slow Flowers Summit is one month away -- it's really impossible to believe as I speak that sentence, especially after having to postpone the 2020 Summit, which would have been our fourth consecutive year holding a live, in-person gathering to celebrate Slow Flowers Society and American Flowers Week.
Our fabulous speaker lineup includes (top row), Susan McLeary, Emily Saeger, Molly Culver; (middle row), Kellee Matsushita-Tseng, Lorene Edwards Forkner, Max Gill; (bottom row), Abra Lee, Pilar Zuniga, Jennifer Jewell + our host, Slow Flowers Society’s Debra Prinzing
Alas, as each of you knows, little took place last year. However, as we en...
2021-05-2643 minSlow Flowers PodcastEpisode 504 A Conversation with Jennifer Jewell, host of public radio’s Cultivating Place and capstone presenter at the 2021 Slow Flowers SummitJennifer Jewell, author, radio host and garden advocate
I'm delighted to welcome back return guest Jennifer Jewell to the Slow Flowers Podcast for our lovely, wide-ranging conversation about what defines a garden, where those gardens are, who are the gardeners who tend to them and how we are both emerging from 2020 with a much clearer understanding of the roles women play in making the earth a better, safer, more inclusive and accessible place for all.
Jennifer Jewell, creator and host of "Cultivating Place: Conversations on the Natural World and the Human Impulse to Garden"
Here's a bit more about Jennifer...
2021-05-0548 min
Fuse 8 n' KateEpisode 179 - One Grain of RiceHope ya like math, happy people! Today we take a look at what may well be the best known math-related picture book that doesn't involve just counting. By some odd quirk of fate, Betsy has chaired the Mathical Book Prize committee, and One Grain of Rice was awarded its Hall of Fame status. Today Kate and Betsyt talk about Demi's real name, her hugely famous ancestors, and why she's called "Demi" at all. And hey, is that really true that we don't throw rice at weddings anymore because uncooked rice can injure birds' stomachs? Or is that a myth? We...
2021-04-1230 minSlow Flowers PodcastEpisode 498: It’s a family affair with Dru Rivers of Full Belly Farm and Hannah Rose Muller of Full Belly FloralHanna Rose Muller of Full Belly Floral (c) Sarah Ching Photograph
Today's guest have been on my wish list to interview ever since we met in person at a Slow Flowers gathering in 2018, hosted by Scott Paris of High Hand Nursery, past guest of this podcast.
Please meet Dru Rivers, co-founder of Full Belly Farm, one of the first certified organic farms in California, and her daughter Hannah Rose Muller, who created their sister venture Full Belly Floral. They are based in Guinda, in Northern California's Capay Valley. Full Belly is committed to fostering sustainability on all levels, from fertility...
2021-03-2448 minSlow Flowers PodcastEpisode 497: Meet Jill Brooke, floral journalist and creator of Flower Power DailyA quick note for you garden-lovers! We are giving away five virtual tickets to the Great Grow Along, a new, three-day, virtual gardening festival taking place this weekend, March 19-21 - online, of course. The Great Grow Along features more than 40 sessions across six topic tracks and YOU might win a free ticket to attend. The first five listeners who post a comment below will receive the complimentary registration, valued at $29.95. Be sure to tell us what's growing in your garden in the comment section. If you miss out on this giveaway, the folks at the Great Grow Along have al...
2021-03-171h 03Slow Flowers PodcastEpisode 443: Women at Work: Making a Living While Following Your Plant Passion, with author Jennifer Jewell and three of the 75 women profiled in her new book, “The Earth in Her Hands”From left: Lorene Edwards Forkner, Christin Geall, moderator Jennifer Jewell and Debra Prinzing at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival
Jennifer Jewell—Creator and host of the public radio program (and podcast) Cultivating Place, is a past guest of this podcast. Now, she is also an author and is on tour to promote her book, The Earth in Her Hands, which has the subtitle: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants.
This past week, Jennifer was in Seattle to speak at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival and, among other appearances, she led a panel discussion that we recorded for today’s epis...
2020-03-041h 03Slow Flowers PodcastEpisode 440: On the elements of floral style, with floral artist, teacher and author Christin Geall of CultivatedThe author shows off her new book (left) and a Baroque-styled arrangement from Cultivated
On Vancouver Island, along the western edge of Canada, gardener, designer, writer and teacher Christin Geall grows flowers and shares her designs through Cultivated by Christin, a creative studio launched in 2015.Christin's eclectic background includes pursuits that are equal parts physical and intellectual. She apprenticed on a Martha's Vineyard herb farm, interned at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and homesteaded on a remote island in British Columbia. Academic studies in ethnobotany, environmental science and a creative writing MFA led to editorships, university-level teaching and a regular...
2020-02-1250 min
Cultivating PlaceSeasonal Garden Book Round UpDid you say you needed a good Garden Book Recommendation?! The holidays and end of year are upon us – and with them, all those lists. Things to do, food to cook, intentions to make, gifts to consider. To help in your deliberations, this week, I’ve gathered a handful of gardeners from ranging interests and locales to offer some thoughts on good books that catch their eyes and imaginations this season. Join Yolanda Burrell, owner of Pollinate Farm and Garden in Oakland, CA; Lorene Edwards Forkner, Editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine and based in Seattle WA; And Pen Pender, Home Gard...
2018-12-0658 minCultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenSeasonal Garden Book Round UpDid you say you needed a good Garden Book Recommendation?! The holidays and end of year are upon us – and with them, all those lists. Things to do, food to cook, intentions to make, gifts to consider. To help in your deliberations, this week, I’ve gathered a handful of gardeners from ranging interests and locales to offer some thoughts on good books that catch their eyes and imaginations this season. Join Yolanda Burrell, owner of Pollinate Farm and Garden in Oakland, CA; Lorene Edwards Forkner, Editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine and based in Seattle WA; And Pen Pender, Home Gard...
2018-12-0658 min
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenCultivating Place: Gardening, Designing and Living With Lorene Edwards ForknerCultivating Place: Gardening, Designing and Living With Lorene Edwards Forkner by Jennifer Jewell
2017-09-2227 min