The Zabar’s Podcast explores the history and personalities behind one of New York City’s most beloved grocery stores. In each episode, 4th-generation deli man Willie Zabar dives into a different aspect of the store through conversations with employees, customers, and culinary experts. For comments/questions/inquiries: [email protected]
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The Slow Flowers Podcast is the award-winning, long-running show known as the “Voice of the Slow Flowers Movement.” Airing weekly for more than 9 years, we focus on the business of flower farming and floral design through the Slow Flowers sustainability ethos. Listen to a new episode each Wednesday, available for free download here at slowflowerspodcast.com or on iTunes, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the place we all buy food. From cotton candy grapes to who Mary is and why she’s “gone crackers," comedians Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi have all the answers you never know you needed.
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Life and Art from FT Weekend is the twice-weekly culture podcast of the Financial Times. On Monday, we talk about life, and how to live a good one in one-on-one conversations. On Friday, we talk about ‘art’ – in a chat show. Three FT journalists come together to discuss a new cultural release across film, TV, music and books. Hosted by Lilah Raptopoulos, together with the FT’s award-winning writers and editors, and special guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 748: Flowers & Ceramics, creating a floral enterprise that combines one artist’s passions, with Michelle Hartney
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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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Episode 747: Jennifer Gulizia of The Flowering Farmhouse on dahlia breeding, podcasting, filming a documentary and building a flower farm from the ground up
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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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Episode 746: Slow Flowers in Sweden, with Eva Eliasson, chairwoman of Snittblomsodlare (Slow Flowers Sweden)
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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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Episode 745: Rachel Burgoon of Feathers & Flowers in Washington’s Wenatchee Valley
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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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Episode 744: Abbie Zabar’s new book, BOUQUET: Floral Arrangements at the Metropolitan Museum
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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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Episode 743: Discovering NYC’s new source for locally-grown flowers with Brooklyn’s Flower Aggregate co-founder Jessica Balnaves
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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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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
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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…
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Episode 741: Dried Floral Magic with Bethany and Charles Little of Charles Little & Co.
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https://youtu.be/OBDEhr2XYTs?si=PhY4qua4rCiVhSR2The beauty of dried botanicals is a fitting topic for our first episode of November, as the interest in and demand for these preserved florals represents significant financial influx for flower farmers and floral designers. My recent visit to Charles Little & Co. in Eugene, Oregon, illustrates the sto…
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Episode 740: The Lily Episode with Jessica High of Flamingo Holland Bulbs and Peterkort Roses’ Year-Round Lily Program with Norman Peterkort and Sandra Laubenthal
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https://youtu.be/_Kl8Bmx6U84?si=ih_0q-H_9QvPoz3gWe’ve been working closely this past year with lily bulb growers around the country, with the goal of providing more lily education to both farmers and florists. For today’s Lily Episode I wanted to learn more about what’s required to have a year-round lily program. I began my conversations with Jessi…
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Episode 738: Santa Cruz Flower Hub’s Kelly Brown and Rooted Farmers’ Amelia Ihlo
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https://youtu.be/E54I-BYySnQ?si=CUJgETTQRIc8VRPeJoin me for a great conversation with farmer-florist Kelly Brown, owner of Do Right Flower Farm in Santa Cruz and founder of the Santa Cruz Flower Hub. We also welcome return guest Amelia Ihlo, founder of Rooted Farmers, a longtime Slow Flowers partner and podcast sponsor. Together, they will discuss …
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Episode 738: Meet Melissa Olson of Penflora Designs, a Bay Area floral studio and lifestyle shop reflecting her love of nature, the garden, and local blooms
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https://youtu.be/t38z93GptXU?si=Um3XyaE1ocAKU4UAAt Penflora, sustainable floristry meets thoughtful design. Founder Melissa Olson recently hosted me for a book-signing event at her Bay Area shop where we celebrated the publication of The Flower Farmers and enjoyed her beautiful floral design demonstration. It was one stop during a full weekend of f…
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Episode 737: Herbs for floral design (and the garden) with Stefani Bittner of Homestead Design Collective and Rose Loveall of Morningsun Herb Farm
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https://youtu.be/celZnV8yrZg?si=pYtq6P5iOTXJOXXKCompared to the way today’s guests view the role of herb plants for the landscape, for culinary and medicinal purposes, and especially for floral design, I feel like the herb repertoire in the Slow Flowers Cutting Garden is in need of a major makeover. Learning from herb-lover and edible landscape des…
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Episode 736: Meet the people, farms, and florists shaping Japan’s Slow Flowers Movement
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A visit to Japan for two weeks in September was the ultimate dream come true. My husband Bruce and I, joined by three dear friends, experienced some of the country’s incomparable beauty, culture, history, and tradition during our time in Kyoto and Tokyo. We watched World Class athletes compete in Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium at the World Track Champions…
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Episode 735: The magic of dahlias with Anne Long of The Dahlia House
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https://youtu.be/_S5lU5VPqk8?si=nJkFjh_vDEfP4aV5Anne Long likes to call herself a cheerleader for dahlias and many other flowers that she wants gardeners and growers to experience. “I love ridiculously gorgeous flowers that look like they are out of a high-end magazine,” she proclaims. “And I want my neighbor to have them on her kitchen table.” At …
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Episode 734: A visit to The Little Farm on Olga Road, with Carol Wetzel and Allan Tone, where customers are welcomed to harvest the beauty of flowers, herbs, and vegetables
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https://youtu.be/XiAbthV5xU4?si=Ci5qiYKnqEG70vDSAt The Little Farm on Olga Road on Orcas, Carol Wetzel and Allan Tone live in a small house and have devoted much of the surrounding three acres to growing a food-herb-and-flower farm and seasonal plant nursery to serve their neighbors and island visitors, including destination wedding clients. The Li…
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Episode 733: Field tour and design demonstration with Alicia Houston of Healer’s Harvest
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https://youtu.be/_uKTLKHF5Zg?si=pu1QJXMfHrY2RnRsAlicia Houston is the founder of Healer’s Harvest, based in Poulsbo, Washington. After moving to the Pacific Northwest from San Diego to care for her grandfather, a long-time veggie grower and farmers’ market seller, Alicia found her own passion for flower farming. Her lifelong interest in medicinal p…
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Episode 732: Celebrating Taylor Swift’s Engagement as People Magazine’s Floral Expert with Ashley Greer of Atelier Ashley Flowers
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https://youtu.be/C8G7Tn-8y6E?si=8e5f8qkEfMVU1UzEThe news was impossible to ignore last Tuesday, as the Internet exploded with reports of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement. For flower people like us, seeing the enchanted garden setting with a lush display of roses, hydrangea, delphinium, lilies, and masses of greenery – well, it was all too…
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Episode 731: High Desert Dahlias on Colorado’s Front Range, with Dianne Reitan of Dianne’s Dahlias
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https://youtu.be/YIqJkwH7LXY?si=Mz5TXBzwyF6f6XuyIt’s dahlia season and gardeners and growers everywhere are celebrating the endless variety and exquisite beauty of the Slow Flowers movement’s “it” flower. At Dianne’s Dahlias in Colorado Springs, Colorado, founder Dianne Reitan is motivated by her own dahlia passion. Growing dahlias in dry, high des…
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Episode 730: Meet farmer-florist Colleen Raney of Diadem Flowers as we discuss her new project, Songbird Seed Co., specializing in hard-to-find British sweet pea seeds and more
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https://youtu.be/gaTn7jO3DS4?si=xEnvvGPsdI7t0di3I truly love learning about the floral journeys that so many of our members have taken to arrive at a life immersed in flower growing, floral design, or both. For Colleen Raney, the path began when she and her husband were professional musicians. Colleen’s decades-long career as a celebrated Irish sin…
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Episode 729: Jenny Jonak of Dragon Song Farm on building community, enriching a family’s lifestyle, and encouraging creative expression through flower farming
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https://youtu.be/L3ykZ98zqsE?si=uJggIXWspcqsw0moDragon Song Farm is located in Oregon’s Willamette Valley outside Eugene. Founder Jenny Jonak’s mission is to bring a sense of floral magic to her customers and community while promoting sustainable, earth-friendly growing practices. By using regenerative farming techniques, Dragon Song ensures that t…
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Episode 728: Building a Successful Floral Tourism Destination, with Lori and Jim Bochner of Bochner Farms in Indianola, Iowa
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https://youtu.be/EB6eWif0mio?si=pfsFql-4xDnbwBWNThe Bochner family lived in the Des Moines, Iowa, suburbs for many years, in a house surrounded by a beautiful flower garden. As gardeners with other careers, Lori and Jim never dreamed of packing up everything, moving to rural Iowa, and growing thousands of flowers on a farm. Today, they consider Boc…
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Episode 727: A tour of La Flor Farm’s dahlia fields, where four generations grow exquisite blooms for the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market and local florists
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https://youtu.be/Aa6Q2fWCG1g?si=AuRMPGoLwVJ-ZE_vLong before I met the women of La Flor Farm, I met their gorgeous flowers. For the past three years, mom Michele and daughter Chantelle have supplied customers (like me) who shop at the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market with a breathtakingly beautiful selection of the highest quality flowers – from tul…
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Episode 726: Navigating weddings as a farmer-florist with Julie Raymond of Bittersweet Gardens
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https://youtu.be/0doEw6lpGz4?si=XdYFY6NZ8r23c5-WBased in Kingston, Massachusetts, on Boston’s South Shore, farmer-florist Julie Raymond grows cut flowers for her clients’ wedding florals. After an initial career in social service, Julie’s graduate work in horticulture and landscape design now informs her philosophy. She says: “That background in sc…
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Episode 725: Slow Flowers returns to Sunny Meadows Flower Farm to celebrate The Flower Farmers with Steve and Gretel Adams
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https://youtu.be/RslR3txR91Q?si=yleBkHEYO26z4Ag4Next year, Gretel and Steve Adams will celebrate the 20th farming season at Sunny Meadows Flower Farm in Columbus, Ohio. Far younger than the average U.S. farmer, these first-generation flower growers have built Sunny Meadows into an impressive floral enterprise encompassing more than 30 acres, employ…
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Episode 724: When a flower farmer opens a retail design studio, with Stacey Chapman of Westwind Flowers Farm & Studio
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https://youtu.be/_tDUwuW3ZGY?si=0gpALTpIPayQcwCGIn early March, Stacey Chapman embarked on a new chapter for Westwind Flowers, opening a design studio and retail space in Gordonsville, Virginia. Adding this beautiful destination for her customers and the public means Westwind can provide more local flowers to their community on a greater scale with…
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