Harvesting for the MOST Beautiful Farmers Market Stand Ever!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- We have a reputation for having a very beautiful farmers market stand, customers frequently mention it, and people take selfies infront of it to be "Im at a farmers market!" on social media. Its a good looking stand. But I feel like it keeps getting better, as Serina's bouquets have evolved with this year doing $20 bouquets instead of $10, the stand has looked better than our first 2 seasons. That means that this week, our first week this summer with Pink Berkeley Tie Die Tomatoes and gorgeous perfect large eggplants, our stand will have the opportunity to be literally, our best looking stand ever! I don't just want to take an easy win, but I will work extra hard this week to make the pinnacle that much higher! The flowers and veggies do end up looking amazing, but you will have to watch the video to see how the market goes. And of course there is some bouquet arranging in here as well. We arrange a bouquet for the Flower CSA that is bright and cheery with lots of big beautiful zinnias, and some sunflowers. A bouquet for the market is arranged as well, featuring amaranth and coral zinnias. Also there is lots of fun harvesting footage in this video, but you probably are already expecting that.
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You might already have something like this but I really think you should have a sign that talks about your TH-cam channel at the market. If your customer saw your videos and knew how much work that goes in to making the flower bouquets or saw how you grow your food I´m sure they would be happy to support you. Few people know what it takes to have a business and very few know what their food comes from. I love your channel so much and I learn so much from watching you.
“As seen on TH-cam”, lol. 😆
Awesome idea
Omg they need Ian and Serina cardboard cutouts and make it an Instagram photo destination. Ahhahahahha
@@joligarcon5970 the masks are for the smoke! No need to be rude. If you saw the episode earlier she got very sick from the smoke, so they wear them to breath better when outside.
So true. I would never have known the amount of hard work that goes into running a farming business - a farmer in addition to knwoing how to grow different crops requires so many marketing, design skills - like a jack of all trades - in order to successfully run their business. I will be more free while spending at the farmer's market in the future.
I don't usually belly laugh before I'm even out of bed yet, but that opening was fantastic! I love you guys. Your dorky humor is right up my alley.
Totally agree, the jokes in the last couple videos have been on point!
Ian...you ARE the father. 😂😂🤣
Hahaha.... and... you are the father... I would never financially recover from this...... had me laughing so hard.... you guys are the best... love your channel a lot
Every time I watch Serina harvest flowers, I wish I could be picking flowers with her. I would love to help on Thursdays and Fridays, but wishful thinking. I’m retired and thousands of miles away. I will continue to dream watching Serina and Ian Love you guys.
I feel the same way. I am ready to move to Canada, work at Red Roof Family Farm and go along for the ride!
See Serina can help to have a long life to watch her flowers.
Haha "You are the father"
You really have a good eye for bouquet creation, Serena. I would not have an easy time choosing just one!
Thinking of you guys often. Be easy on yourselves. I know you want to sell out everything but the joy and health you give to the food bank will come back to you. ❤️
just want to say that your uploads are one of my most awaited videos every week ♡
The cosmos with the sunflowers and statice @26:59 look so amazing!! I wish I lived near you so I could buy a bouquet! 💐
I really can't believe how hard you guys work. It kills me knowing how little you sleep. If I lived in the area, I would help harvest for free.
We stay up late, but also sleep in, except for market day, Saturdays are tired, lol
There’s a local farm that occasionally opens up their field and you Pay to cut a certain amount of flowers. Idk if that’s profitable or not. But it will save you time and work not to harvest the flowers. Sometimes I kinda wish you guys had more markets because I’m selfishly hoping for more videos. 🤣.
Place near me charges $2 a sunflower and you go and cut your own
Why don't you guys try to put together a "Bouquet bar" kind of thing at the market, all of the leftover flowers can go down and people can build a bouquet? I don't know if people would take the time, but just an idea.
I would probably do something like that if I lived in their area. I usually buy cheap Walmart or Kroger flowers and make my own bouquets.
It's probably not super practical for markets though. Might work for the farm stand.
Thats a great idea! It might bring a buzz of people over to their stand.
Great idea, I'd love thst
The Bouquet Bar is something I'd love to do. I think you'd have to have different liability insurance. As well as worry about people accidently damaging the flowers around them (loss of money).
I love the gratuitous cat shots. Keep them up.
The eggplants are beautiful. I don’t love eating them. I don’t hate them either. I just have never found a way to cook them that knocked my socks off.
Eggplant parmesan!!
Stirfry with broadbean-chili sauce (doubanjiang) and garlic.
The flower combination that really caught my eye was blue/indigo and lime. Gorgeous! Sorry the rain didn't knock down the fire and smoke longer.
Same!
Most beautiful market stand EVER! My husband I love watching your videos. You two make a great team.
Your time lapses are amazing. It's so important for people to see the effect of these fires and what's happening to our environment. It's too easy to be distant and ignore what people are suffering with. Thank you.
"All great harvests start with a single snip" - that is an awesome line!!!!! 👍🏾🥰
Lol
Regarding flower farm vs veggies, as a consumer I prefer farmers market flowers because usually the flowers are fresh and unique and much cheaper than from a florist. Farmers market veggies however are usually more expensive than the store (understandably so). I’m sure the pandemic has been tough on consumers as well so it’s harder to justify spending twice as much on veggies, whereas a fresh bouquet can make you happy for at least a week. Just my opinion.
"I will never financially recover from this" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
OH MY GOSH!!! I can’t believe it! You showed how to rubber and a large bouquet! I can’t say thank you enough! I have a budding, pun intended, peony farm, and I watched someone a 5 years ago do that, and I just could not figure out how to do it now that I need to do it with my stems!!! I love your channel! Thank you!
The intro had me cracking up! Thanks for the great content as always. Even with the craziness you guys crush it!
Hi, Ever though about taking a few buckets of same type Flowers ( Zinnias?) and letting your market customers choose their own Flowers, for a certain price per stem? Just a thought 🤔.... Love all your Flowers & Veggies...Tomatoes look delish! 👌
Those bouquets are simply stunning! The colors and textures, well done. Zinnias were my grandfather's favorite flower, soooo beautiful. The diversity of colors is amazing. We have a small area on our urban "homestead" that we dedicate to growing flowers. We packed it with zinnias and they are so beautiful and long-lasting! Thanks for sharing. p.s. You stayed up until 4am, sheer dedication!
your one of the best farmer i've been following...i love the flowers
Greetings from Slovakia! You guys work so hard. I admire your dedication to your goals and your tireless work ethic. I really enjoy watching your videos, but i also feel bad seeing you so tired, while I'm here lounging in my bed. I hope your hard work pays off and you'll be able to rest more. I wish you all the best! I'm the meantime, I'll keep watching and keeping my fingers crossed for you...
I'm team veggies and flowers....but I mean, those FLOWERS!!! I have never seen anything so beautiful and creative. You are amazing Serina!
you folks work so hard and must really love the farming life. I was raised on a farm and know how hard you work for very little income. You are an inspiration!!
I am amazed you did not sell all those eggplants - they looked beautiful. Your stand and all the flowers looked amazing. Maybe you should also consider selling in other markets too where there is more demand for the veggies you are selling.
Thank you for selling veggies! All our farmers markets don’t have veggies. It’s all other small business stuff.
Fingers crossed The Employee's kiddo is ok, and the rest of the day care. The bouquets get better every week! I love the cinnamon basil, it looks really cool with the lime green!
You guys are the best! So hardworking and honest.love you❤
Love watching you guys. One thing I have seen here at farmers markets that I love are recipes for various veggies to get people’s attention and give them a way to prepare a veggie they may not know what to do with. Just a thought.
Very hard working couple. Beautiful flowers arrangement and fresh looking vegetables. Good luck and stay safe.
Oh my! Your bouquets are gorgeous! You have such an eye for what goes good together. You guys are the best!
You guys are such an incredible team! You two both work so hard but it is so beautiful to see how you lean on and encourage one another! I commend you for your determination and perseverance! Keep going! A beautiful family! I wish I lived closer!
The bouquets are spectacular!!
Our hearts go out to you and yours. You guys and dolls are the salt of the Earth. Love the videos that you work so hard to show us. Big fan of kitties too. Thank You
I just visited Johnson’s Corner Farm in Medford NJ and they have amazing flowers you can pick yourself. The beautiful bouquets people bring home are stunning. I love that place. 💕
I don’t know how you two keep up, and with littles to boot! Serena, I’m with you. I’m in love with the envy and green zinnias. They go with everything. Your bouquets are amazing!😍
High light of your video for me....the soothing sound of rain.
Beautiful bouquet, but they all are beautiful!!! Good job!!!
You could bring the buckets of flowers to the market. Customer could pick out what they want, pay for their bouquet & Sabrina can arrange them, cut & wrap.
I keep rewatching this video.YOUR Blooms are out of this world! I dreamin of a flower cut farm🥰
Beautiful arrangements 💗
Both of you work so hard and you DO have a very beautiful farmers market stand! I hope the employee and her family are doing well. Be safe and take care!
So happy that the Kelowna area finally received a bit of rain.
I love all your bouquets, you guys are such hard workers and it really shows in your farm. Your veggies and flowers are absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for another great and entertaining video, take care.
I look forward to the flowers so much that sometimes I forget you guys grow veggies too!
With the extra flowers, have you considered just selling bouquets of a solid color? Perhaps easier to arrange, as it would be all purple zinnia for example? Or maybe just have squares of Kraft paper, stapler, buckets of flowers, at the market? In addition to your beautiful bouquets!!!!
Love your videos. You inspired me to plant some cutting flowers in my veggie garden this year. You guys are the best! Keep the videos coming😊
Thank you Serena and Ian. Improve your harvesting schedule coz I don’t want you both get sick. Health is wealth!
Yes veggies and local food are important !!!
Great video! The market stand looked incredible! So much hard work, very admirable.
Ooh get Serena to make colour matching bunches of flowers to the veges you want to up sell! Like - a purple bouquet by the eggplants. YUm, by the way. I wish they were in season where I live
Oooo, good idea!
I bet that would look spectacular!!! Great idea!!!
I would love to make a bouquet with your flowers!! Maybe you can start offering a make-your-own bouquet service in your stand with the left over flowers 😊
Laying here watching your videos makes me forget about my health troubles for a while, and I thank you. All that beauty. Fabulous flowers, gorgeous veggies, and cats. Those patty pans are the cutest! I sure wish I was close enough to buy lots from you! Just the sight of food and beauty that you grew from the earth is soothing, maybe even healing, for me. I'm always wishing the best for all of you; good health and happiness. Sorry you didn't make market goal, but you sure were close! It was a beautiful market. Thanks for this beautiful video!
Hope you are feeling better soon
I wish you would also upload just the raw video of harvesting flowers,, I love those clipping sound 🥰🥰🥰 so relaxing 😇😇😇
I think you want an ASMR channel.
That is a gorgeous stand!
Wow Serena! You make some of my absolutely favourite bouquets out of anyone in the TH-cam/Insta world! Getting better and better all the time 🤯😍
All the bouquets look so beautiful, and the veggies, what a labor of 💕!!!
The set up was the most beautiful!
A lot of people are starting their vacation now too! That will affect your business!
I love the colors of the Zinnias. Your tomatoes always look so red and delicious looking.
How about printing up some recipe cards for the eggplant or other veggies. Quick easy recipes to give people ideas. Once it is made it would just be a matter of keeping the cards in stock. Those eggplants were gorgeous.
Exactly what I was going to suggest! Give several recipe suggestions. Those beautiful eggplants and pattypans deserved to be purchased. Also, cucumber lemon or limeade!
A very beautiful market stand indeed! And big kudos to you guys for bringing your “ leftovers “ to the food bank. No doubt those bouquets may have made a tough day for someone a whole lot brighter. ❤️
Amazing you guys are doing great 👍 I love your flowers 🌻
Once you guys have the roadside market, then you can sell a lot more of your vegetables for sure
What a gorgeous place with grounded, smart, creative people to listen to & see gorgeous colors! I wish I lived near you all...I’m ready to have healthy nutritious food.
Your flowers and arrangements are looking amazing 🌼🌻🌻🌻🌼🌻💐💐💐
Rain 🌧 we finally had a bit of that lovely rain this week as well 👍.
I noticed that you have flowers hanging from the ceiling to dry. I would love it if you could do an episode on drying flowers and what types of flowers are best to dry
You are such an inspiration. We've been following you since we bought our property last year. We dream of putting a flower farm once everything is settled. Thank you.
Yup! That was beautiful!
Love from India anyone from Kerala 😊
Love farmers market veggies....
Your bouquets are more and more beautiful, good job!
Free Recipe with veggie of the week... Eggplant Parmesan, that might up your veggie sales. Anythings worth a try.
I will always been team flower but I must have my home grown veggies. Can't eat the flowers.... well, most flowers anyway. Great video guys!
Was a very beautiful market stand! Love the bouquets and the lime zinnias. I’ve grown my first zinnias this year because of you guys which has been a bit tricky with the wet uk weather, slugs and snails. Is great to see what is happening on your side of the world and get an appreciation of how hard work farming is and the challenges you face. Love your videos!!
Everything looks so lush and plentiful, and reflects the hard work you've put into your farm. I have huge flower farm envy and those veggies - wow!
Y’all are amazing! Thank you both for all the hard work you do and sharing your journey 😀
Your bouquets are amazing and beautiful? Great job to you both! 🥰
Those eggplants and tomatoes are amazing! Team veggie!
Man, I'm in for Sarina's jokes - She's super cute and so darn NORMAL !! Its hard to find normal people these days.
I love you sunflower and zinnia bouquet ❤️. I never have success on zinnia because of slugs.
Yeah! You got rain the ultimate for bringing down the temps and helping to purify the air.
LOVED the throwback to Maury! Lol 😂
You hv an amazing variety of Zinnias. The patch looks so colorful and beautiful. I've been inspired to grow some Zinnias myself but I don't think they'll ever match up to yours
As soon as I finish watching your video I pine for more😃
You are literally living in a dreamy world , good luck with your business . Thank you for all your dedication to Mother Earth . You guys are soooo appreciated .
After throwing away a huge portion of my Tomato harvest due to splitting, I learned to harvest the tomatoes as they begin to blush. When you let them ripen on the counter they are perfect.
You are the most talented bouquet maker on the internet! I wish I lived closer I would show up at your market every week to buy one! Have a bouquet bar like Nicole with your extras?? You guys work so hard, but I’m sure it’s super satisfying to create so much beauty (vegetables are beautiful too) for a living. Thank you for making these videos. ❤️❤️❤️
Idea for the extra flowers… bring the buckets & offer the opportunity for people to make their own bouquets?
By the way that was Thee most beautiful market stand!
Just stunning display!
My sister and her kids just tested positive. It’s such a bummer. I’m so happy y’all aren’t sick! Delta is spreading among kiddos quickly.
Your CSA bouquets are BEAUTIFUL
Yall really need to get that farm stand finished!!!!! People like me truely appreciate farmer like you so I don't have to grow alot just a tiny bit.
Oh and the plus fresh cut flowers for the table every weekend awesome :)
I'm still Team Veggies!! The market stand setup was excellent this week, started giving just a hint of Fall vibes with the squash front and center. I also thought the bouquets were exceptional this week, really love the two tone ones just have two different colors in then but with different types of flowers. Hope things pickup for you next week!
"All great harvests start with a single snip" needs to go on a coffee mug. Stunning CSA bouquets! I'm one of those people who really enjoy the smell of tomato greens, so I'll have to give that a try for filler. Glad you're getting some use out of the rubber band hack! Keep up the good work👏👏
ETA: I really think it's awesome that your extras, especially bouquets, go to the food bank. What a great way to connect with your community and share your talents with people who will genuinely appreciate it. Great example to fellow farmers and your kids.
I was just thinking about your videos and suddenly it came 😄
It would never have entered my mind to use tomato prunings as green filler. Brilliant! I sure hope your farm makes it through the fire. Love your videos.
Your flowers is the winner...
Both of you work so hard love it
Beautiful work guys! Beautiful stand, beautiful bouquets, everything was beautitul!
"Every great harvest starts with a single snip!" Love it. Enjoy your videos so much. Thanks for sharing.