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The Badger
This post may contain emotional or triggering content It's stupefying when one family can admit their children to the same school while...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Sep 3, 20244 min read
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The Bear
All of farming is a risk. There are an infinite number of variables we don't control. At best we deal in limited fields of influence and...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Aug 28, 20245 min read
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Buying From Becky: Engineered To Fail Part 2
Anyone getting the heebie-jeebies lately around the monetization of the flower farming dream? Just me?Becky posing with perfect hair and...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Feb 5, 20235 min read
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Engineered To Fail Part 1: Filling Big Foot's Footprint
Nothing has quite the immediacy of planned obsolescence that cut flowers do. A fancy phone may be designed to crap out in a few years....
Tinuviel Lathrop
Jan 18, 20234 min read
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Taking Stock: Part 2
It's been 10 months since I wrote Taking Stock and tried my hand at annuals for the first time, throwing literal seeds in the wind to see...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Nov 22, 20227 min read
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That Which We Call A Rose
There is a bewildering mass of buzzwords hanging around floriculture that veer from substantive practice to solely marketing. As a...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Apr 5, 20225 min read
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Happy Fun Ball
Today suddenly accelerated to warp speed in the best way. I got to meet several fantastic people from local shops, farms, and animal...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Jan 21, 20222 min read
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Taking Stock
Most often, complaints I read from flower farmers focus on the agony of the wait and capital usurpation required for slow maturing...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Jan 13, 20224 min read
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Day 4. Under The Weather
2 minutes or 2 days. Whether I'm missing the ferry by a slim margin or missing planting time by days, small measures create some pretty...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Dec 30, 20212 min read
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Day 3. What Knot To Do
It felt like forever, but in reality, I was waiting less than a year to plant the first peony in our fields. The dream fresh, my...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Dec 11, 20213 min read
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Classic
There's this space that I drive by on my way to my work at the farm. It's breathtaking. Rolling hills of pasture framed by firs which...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Dec 9, 20212 min read
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There's Gold in Them Fields
It's worth taking a minute to introduce you to the linchpin in our efforts to achieve sustainable peony growth: our alpaca herd at Pine...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Nov 28, 20213 min read
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Day 2. A Hill of Beans Worth It's Weight In Gold
It was 10am before I made it outside with an unsuspecting storage tub and a shovel. I quickly filled the Sterilite with some precious...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Nov 24, 20213 min read
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Day 1. 11.20.21
Today was the day we broke ground on the first field. Despite the overwhelming rains this November, the day yielded sun and beautiful PNW...
Tinuviel Lathrop
Nov 21, 20212 min read
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