Best Jessica Chambers Podcasts (2026)

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Episode #45: The Curse of the Jessica Chambers Case - a search for justice. 1:03:54

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On this episode of Investigation: Homicide, host Therese Apel and Nicole Kral are joined by veteran Memphis-area journalist Ron Maxey to revisit one of the most haunting and high-profile cases in the Mid-South: the 2014 murder of Jessica Chambers. Both Apel and Maxey covered the case from its earliest days, when the Panola County teenager was found…

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Episode 46, Tier 5 and the Future of Mississippi First Responders 50:58

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Mississippi’s first responders are pushing back as lawmakers debate the future of public employee retirement during the current legislative session. In this episode of Investigation: Homicide, we sit down with Reservoir Fire Chief Josh Swales to break down what Tier 5 of the Public Employees’ Retirement System really means for those on the front li…

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Natural Selection: How Religious Extremism Killed Mary Anne Welch 14:44

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Natural Selection: How Religious Extremism Killed Mary Anne Welch On August 2, 2018, ten-month-old Mary Anne Welch died of starvation in Solon Township, Michigan. Her parents, Seth Welch and Tatiana Fusari, were convicted of felony murder and first-degree child abuse after investigators discovered the infant weighed only eight pounds at death. The …

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Episode 750: Susan Chambers of San Francisco-based bloominCouture – a luxury florist designs with seasonal and local flowers 35:09

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https://youtu.be/0HFUC-qb-3Q?si=ftg-AyUSDwYRpKoVLuxury floral designer Susan Chambers, owner of San Francisco-based bloominCouture. She’s a longtime Slow Flowers member whose high-end residential and corporate clients support her sustainable values, which do not compromise her design aesthetic or her approach to seasonal sourcing. Many of you first…

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Birmingham's Forgotten Serial Killer: Jack Harrison Trawick 12:47

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Birmingham's Forgotten Serial Killer: Jack Harrison Trawick Jack Harrison Trawick murdered Stephanie Gach in Birmingham, Alabama in 1992 after abducting the 21-year-old college student from her apartment complex parking lot. The homicide investigation revealed Trawick had killed at least three women, including 17-year-old Betty Jo Richards in 1972 …

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The Birthday Cake Killers: Inside the 1973 Victor Massacre 13:24

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The Birthday Cake Killers: Inside the 1973 Victor Massacre In November 1973, Douglas Gretzler and Willie Steelman murdered nine people in Victor, California, including the Parkin family and their neighbors. The homicide investigation revealed a brutal massacre where victims Walter Parkin, Joanne Parkin, their children Lisa and Robert, Richard and W…

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Episode 749: Floral Tourism visits historic gardens and modern-day flower festivals of Holland and Belgium, with Debra Prinzing, Lorene Edwards Forkner and Lois Moss 50:16

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https://youtu.be/NilyUEdksYA?si=G8oSgsVXGSVQPzlzAs a special year-end episode of the Slow Flowers Podcast, you’re invited to join me today in conversation with garden tour producer Lois Moss, and my dear friend, Lorene Edwards Forkner, artist, author, and regular contributor to the Seattle Times. Together, we are planning a one-of-a-kind botanical …

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Sarah Jo Pender: The Female Charles Manson Case Explained 12:38

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Sarah Jo Pender: The Female Charles Manson Case Explained They called her the Female Charles Manson. In October 2000, two people were shot to death in an Indianapolis drug house. Sarah Jo Pender bought the shotgun that morning at Walmart. Her boyfriend Richard Hull pulled the trigger. She got 110 years, he got 75. Now the prosecutor who convicted h…

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The Cereal Killer: Frozen Breast Milk Solved a Michigan Murder 11:59

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The Cereal Killer: Frozen Breast Milk Solved a Michigan Murder Christina Harris died in her Davison, Michigan home in September 2014 from a heroin overdose. The 36-year-old mother's death was ruled accidental. Her husband Jason Harris collected $120,000 in life insurance, bought a plane ticket to visit another woman nine days later, and moved a new…

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Episode 748: Flowers & Ceramics, creating a floral enterprise that combines one artist’s passions, with Michelle Hartney 1:08:45

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https://youtu.be/VminWzvUNIkIn 2018, we named Slow Pottery one of our ten floral insights of the year, and the interest in combining locally-grown flowers with curated pottery and vase collections has only continued to gain momentum. The demand for American-made pottery first caught our attention in a 2015 New York Times article titled “The Budding…

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Bible John: The Ballroom Killer 15:01

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Bible John: The Ballroom Killer Patricia Docker, Jemima MacDonald, and Helen Puttock were murdered between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland after meeting their killer at the Barrowland Ballroom. The unsolved homicide investigation spawned one of Europe's most notorious cold cases when a witness described the suspect quoting scripture and condemni…

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Seven Deadly Sins: The Valhermoso Springs Massacre 12:00

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Seven Deadly Sins: The Valhermoso Springs Massacre The 2020 Valhermoso Springs murders left seven people dead in Morgan County, Alabama, when Frederic Rogers and John Michael Legg opened fire during a drug dispute that escalated into a mass homicide. The investigation revealed burned bodies, over 1,000 crime scene photographs, and a confession that…

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Episode 747: Jennifer Gulizia of The Flowering Farmhouse on dahlia breeding, podcasting, filming a documentary and building a flower farm from the ground up 57:46

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https://youtu.be/iDXNEEP74dg?si=95xtQpkBIExFdBQdYou may be familiar with today’s guest, Jennifer Gulizia of The Flowering Farmhouse and The Backyard Bouquet Podcast. Like many of us, Jennifer’s story began in her own garden, as her flower-growing fascination naturally melded with her professional photography career. In 2019, she and her husband, T.…

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Death Cap Mushroom Poisoning: The Australian Family Lunch Murders 12:04

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Death Cap Mushroom Poisoning: The Australian Family Lunch Murders Erin Patterson murdered her former in-laws Gail Patterson, Don Patterson, and Heather Wilkinson using death cap mushrooms in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia on July 29, 2023. The homicide investigation revealed Patterson served poisoned Beef Wellington at a family lunch, resulting in …

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#S2011 The Disappearance of Dr. Cherryl Lamont Pearson 20:10

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Send us a text On a cold January night in 2002, 37‑year‑old pediatrician Dr. Cherryl Lamont Pearson vanished from her suburban home outside Memphis, Tennessee. After a Memphis Grizzlies game and a relaxed evening with friends, she was suddenly gone—leaving behind her phone, pager, and vital medication, along with a life and career she had every rea…

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From Best Friend to Murder: The Missy Avila Story 11:52

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From Best Friend to Murder: The Missy Avila Story In October 1985, 17-year-old Michele "Missy" Avila was found murdered in Big Tujunga Creek in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, her body submerged under a 100-pound log. The homicide investigation revealed a brutal case of premeditated murder involving two of Missy's childhood friends, K…

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Episode 746: Slow Flowers in Sweden, with Eva Eliasson, chairwoman of Snittblomsodlare (Slow Flowers Sweden) 59:30

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https://youtu.be/D6ZrP98HNEg?si=xnsb-hjNywgQYrPrToday’s guest, Eva Eliasson, joins me from Stockholm, Sweden, where she is the chairwoman of Snittblomsodlare, the association of cut flower farmers in Sweden. We met virtually earlier this year when Eva reached out to introduce herself while on a family trip to the U.S. We scheduled time to chat furt…

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Mississippi's Most Controversial Murder Trial: The Jessica Chambers Case 17:03

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Mississippi's Most Controversial Murder Trial: The Jessica Chambers Case On December 6, 2014, Jessica Chambers, a 19-year-old from Courtland, Mississippi, was found burned over 93% of her body in a murder investigation that would grip the nation. The homicide case against suspect Quinton Tellis resulted in two hung juries, as forensic evidence, cel…

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Ep. 79 - Bryan Allegretto - OpenSnow 52:46

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The Tahoe TAP podcast returns with another look into the Things, Adventures, and People fueling life in the Sierra. Hosts Mike Peron and Rob Galloway are back to break down the latest buzz around Tahoe — and with winter anticipation building, this episode couldn’t be more timely. This week, the show welcomes back one of its rare two-time guests: Br…

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The Babysitter Who Knew Too Much: Kimberly Cargill Capital Murder 13:03

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The Babysitter Who Knew Too Much: Kimberly Cargill Capital Murder Kimberly Cargill murdered Cherry Walker in Whitehouse, Texas on June 18, 2010 to prevent the mentally challenged babysitter from testifying at a child custody hearing. The Smith County investigation revealed Walker died from asphyxiation, her partially burned body discovered on Oscar…

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Strategic Visuals That Turn Cases Around, with Seton Claggett 51:54

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From an individual’s spinal injury to an entire town’s polluted landscape, Focus Graphics designs demonstratives that pop – and persuade. CEO Seton Claggett visits hosts Alicia Campbell and Nick Schweitzer to explain the value of visuals and the return on investment. “You can get a colorization of an MRI or something, get a couple of them, and be o…

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Investigation: Homicide. Episode #2: The Day Our Hearts Broke 1:12:25

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It’s a day Mississippi will never forget. October 1, 1997, a nerdy teenager walked into a high school and changed everyone’s life forever. We talk with Greg Eklund, who was an investigator with the Rankin County Sheriffs Dept at the time. Eklund takes us through the events leading up to that day and what the ripple effect has been over time. This e…

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The Fake Pregnancy That Led to Murder: Taylor Parker's Deadly Deception 13:48

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The Fake Pregnancy That Led to Murder: Taylor Parker's Deadly Deception Taylor Parker murdered Reagan Simmons-Hancock in New Boston, Texas on October 9, 2020, brutally attacking the 21-year-old pregnant woman and cutting her unborn baby from her womb. The homicide investigation revealed Parker had spent ten months faking her own pregnancy through e…

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Episode 745: Rachel Burgoon of Feathers & Flowers in Washington’s Wenatchee Valley 56:29

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https://youtu.be/LBywkd_2XK8?si=ZHwpJ8cUm23yV4cSFeathers & Flowers is a small, family-run, flower farm growing seasonal, sustainable, and local flowers in Wenatchee, Washington. The farm’s cute logo includes an illustration of a KuneKune pig, a few chickens, and of course, a vase of flowers. I recently visited Feathers & Flowers as Rachel Burgoon’s…

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Bloody Bill Anderson: The Civil War Guerrilla Who Created Jesse James 13:11

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Bloody Bill Anderson: The Civil War Guerrilla Who Created Jesse James William T. Anderson, known as "Bloody Bill," was a Confederate guerrilla fighter who terrorized Missouri and Kansas during the Civil War, becoming one of the most brutal figures in American history. The Centralia Massacre of September 1864 saw Anderson and his men execute 22 unar…

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Burned and Flushed: The Dennis Nilsen Serial Killer Case 15:00

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Burned and Flushed: The Dennis Nilsen Serial Killer Case Dennis Nilsen murdered at least twelve young men between 1978 and 1983 in North London, making him one of Britain's most prolific serial killers. The investigation into the Muswell Hill Murderer only began after plumber Michael Cattran discovered human remains blocking a drain at Cranley Gard…

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Episode #1: Behind the Headlines: The Calculated Crime of Carly Gregg 1:15:12

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In the inaugural episode of Investigation Homicide, Therese and Nicole explore the case of an intelligent and manipulative teenager who killed her mother in cold blood through the eyes of Assistant District Attorney Michael Smith, who was tasked with prosecuting her. The Investigation Homicide team examines this sensational case beyond the national…

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Bible Belt Strangler: The 40-Year Hunt for a Killer Who Targeted Redheads 13:08

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Bible Belt Strangler: The 40-Year Hunt for a Killer Who Targeted Redheads So there's this case that's been sitting in the shadows for over 40 years. Between 1978 and 1992, women with red hair started turning up dead along interstates across the South. Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi. All strangled or beaten. All dumped like they were not…

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Episode 744: Abbie Zabar’s new book, BOUQUET: Floral Arrangements at the Metropolitan Museum 57:06

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https://youtu.be/Fz6QYN9w3ikFor ten years, New York-based artist and illustrator Abbie Zabar had unique, early-morning access to the Great Hall at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. With colored-pencils and a small square of paper, Abbie drew the dramatic floral arrangements on display in the Great Hall, designed by Chris Giftos, the Met’s flor…

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Thanksgiving Day 2012: How Byron Smith Executed Two Teen Burglars 12:48

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Thanksgiving Day 2012: How Byron Smith Executed Two Teen Burglars Byron David Smith, a 64-year-old retired security engineer, shot and killed teenagers Nicholas Brady and Haile Kifer during a home invasion in Little Falls, Minnesota on Thanksgiving Day 2012. The double homicide investigation revealed audio recordings Smith made of the entire incide…

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The Barron Wisconsin Murders and Jayme Closs’s Escape 12:49

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The Barron Wisconsin Murders and Jayme Closs’s Escape You know what terrifies me most about this case? Jake Patterson had never met Jayme Closs. Never spoken to her. He saw her getting on a school bus one morning and decided right then that he was going to take her. He killed both her parents, dragged her from her home, and kept her hidden under hi…

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Ep. 78 - Amy Ohran - Palisades Tahoe 43:59

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The Tahoe TAP podcast is back, tapping into the Things, Adventures, and People fueling life in the Sierra Nevada. Hosts Mike Peron and Rob Galloway return to the studio to share stories and voices from around the basin, catching listeners up on what’s happening across the Tahoe region. In this episode, they sit down with Amy Ohran, President & Chie…

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When Data Shows You the Real “Bad Actor,” with Brian Aleinikoff 1:12:07

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When Brian Aleinikoff represented a 16-year-old girl who was paralyzed after falling from a chairlift, he leveraged a big data report that made it clear: He had to reframe the case to focus on the true “bad actor” – not the chairlift operator but the “multi-gajillion-dollar corporation” itself. As he explains in this case breakdown with hosts Alici…

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Episode 21: Cold Case Cracked—The Arrest in Shondra May’s 40-Year Mystery 43:53

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For nearly four decades, the murder of Shondra May has haunted central Mississippi—until now. In this powerful new episode of Investigation: Homicide, Sheriff Mike Lee and Chief Deputy Brad Ellis return to the studio to sit down with Therese Apel and walk us through the shocking arrest of Rubin Weeks, a former suspect who had vanished into the shad…

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Keith and Elaine Dardeen: A Family Trying to Escape Death 15:11

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Keith and Elaine Dardeen: A Family Trying to Escape Death The Dardeen family was supposed to be starting over. Keith and Elaine were packing up their lives in rural Illinois, seven months pregnant with their second child, ready to leave behind a string of unsolved murders that had terrified their community for years. They were trying to outrun the …

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Episode 743: Discovering NYC’s new source for locally-grown flowers with Brooklyn’s Flower Aggregate co-founder Jessica Balnaves 1:03:34

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https://youtu.be/SoA1IvHkzaM?si=urT9z6upZ5F639zrEarlier this year, at the first of April, a long-awaited hub for flowers grown in the NY-Connecticut-New Jersey tri-state region opened its doors. Unlike many of the emerging North American hubs selling local flowers, Flower Aggregate is not a collective or a cooperative. It is a privately-owned whole…

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Self-Defense or Murder? The Stillwater Bail Bonds Office Shooting 14:06

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Self-Defense or Murder? The Stillwater Bail Bonds Office Shooting A bail bondsman in Stillwater, Oklahoma shoots her own client in the back as he tries to escape through a window. She claims self-defense. He's unarmed. A jury decides her fate in less time than it takes to watch a movie. This case raises questions about the power we give to private …

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Richard Ramirez: Inside the Mind of the Night Stalker 12:44

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Richard Ramirez: Inside the Mind of the Night Stalker In 1985, serial killer Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California during a brutal murder spree that left at least 13 people dead across Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Night Stalker, as he became known, broke into homes in the San Gabriel Valley and Bay Area, sexually assaulting and killi…

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Episode 45 - Forged in Fire: sheriff Tyree Jones talks about the murder of Lyneil Vaughn 56:56

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This week on Investigation: Homicide, hosts Therese Apel and Nicole Kral sit down with Sheriff Tyree Jones, who takes us back to his days as a Jackson Police Department detective working the 2007 murder of Lyneil Deshun Vaughn. Vaughn, who was disabled, was found burned and rolled up in a blanket — the tragic end to a horrific crime that began as a…

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Is Lucy Letby A Baby Killer: The Medical Evidence Is Under A Microscope 13:32

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Is Lucy Letby A Baby Killer: The Medical Evidence Is Under A Microscope What happens when doctors raise alarms about babies dying on their watch, and hospital executives tell them to apologize to the person they suspect? The Lucy Letby case seemed like a closed chapter when she was sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven infants. In 2025, a…

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S3 Ep9: Jessica King 54:54

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In today’s episode, we welcome back a familiar face who’s about to make history on Chamber Chat. Joined by Jessica King we are talking mostly about her background and her position on the podcast. We also talk about fall fest and give Jessica a little bit of chamber chat history and at the end she gets to play 5 questions.…

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Episode 742: Brian and Kimberley Hautau of New Jersey’s Hautau & Sons on Year-Round Growing and Supplying Local Flowers to NYC’s Wholesale Market 49:33

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https://youtu.be/Nk5_XDmAcXM?si=A5_xWCB13cYlaYQPJoin me in a virtual tour of Hautau & Sons, a third-generation greenhouse grower of uncommon specialty cut flowers. Founded in 1902, Hautau & Sons is now run by Brian and Kimberley Hautau, who are both stewarding the family business that Brian’s grandfather started; it was later operated by Brian’s fa…