Cleaning Up The Farm | Dried Flower Installation
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If we are going to be ready for the beginning of the farmers market and sales season, then we need to get this farm cleaned up! Join us as we try to transform the farm from messy to fabulous. There is no growing happening, so now is the time to get everything organized so we are ready to sell our cut flowers come spring. We also transform the farmstand with a beautiful dried flower installation. By the end, the farm won't just be clean, it will be beautiful.
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I wouldn't be surprised if someone would want to buy that dried flower arrangement this season. It is so pretty. Hope you have a great growing year happy and healthy.
It's definitely not going anywhere - at least not until we take it down, lol
Just a reassurance that this channel is always 'feel good' content. I started watching your channel because I like growing things, I stuck around for the cats, the sometimes-goofy antics and generally good humour. I have always felt like you guys are the kind of people who I would be friends with IRL. You are definitely being the good in the world.
Thanks so much!
Love everything about you guys; you’re real and down to earth kinda people that we can and want to relate to.
Special thanks to Ian for the thought behind your videos! The world indeed needs more joy, especially in light of the current situations.🙏
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Aww, in the end it's a master piece. That's a beautiful arrangement in the ceiling. Sometimes everything doesn't have to be planned out because that arrangement wasn't planned out but look at the beauty. Well done 👏 both of you. I will be starting my own little cut flower business this year. Let see how that works. I live in an apartment, I'm yet to see someone who doesn't have their own farm showing a flower business from just having a little plot at a community garden. 😅 Fingers cross, I'll be attempting to do that this year. 😅 I'll definitely be keeping up with you guys. Would love to have my own farm, just waiting on God to bless me with that...
Good luck to you! How can keep up with your “farm” progress?
Good luck with your new farm! So fun!
That dried arrangement turned out beautiful! Now you need a rustic type sign below it with your Farm Name on it. Have a sign asking people to take selfies with it and tag you on social media. I hope Ian is prepared to sell closer to 100 bouquets at the Market each week now.
Lol, 100 bouquets would be amazing. But I'm not going to get too carried away, and make my goal 100 bouquet weekends, including the farmstand
Dried flower installation turned out gorgeous!!! And great clean-up job! Ready for a great season!! 🌱🌱🌱☀️🌻🌷
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I LOVE the dried flower installation! Yay! Great job! I appreciate the fun videos. Keep up the good vibes guys. The world needs it now more than ever. 💜💚
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What I notice is two people, working their butts off to run 2 businesses and raise their young children. This is the season of life for messes. Things will get easier to maintain when the kids are older. Enjoy their little years because teenagers are no fun!
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Lol, the good thing about the teenage years, is that after them, they are adults, lol
Serina, that is a truly beautiful installation 😍 My guesstimate would be over $500. And Ian, you have certainly reached your goal of making people happy with your videos, they are a highlight of my week and you both always make me smile 😊
I don't know if it would get that much but I would use the same rule I used with my paintings. If I took something to a show I really liked i put a high price tag on it so. . . if someone was willing to pay that. . I was willing to part with it.
Thanks so much. It's fun to share everything going on too
I can totally see that being a wonderful centerpiece on a long table! Very beautiful!
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The dried arrangement is fabulous! I love your channel. All the best to y’all for a fun, healthy, and profitable season.
OMG that dried flower arrangement is amazing!!!
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I love watching your videos and I'm wishing you lots of success this year. Bless you and your family.
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That arrangement turned out beautifully! And great work tidying and prepping for the season. That’s the stuff that I put off all the time, but man it makes such a huge difference when you don’t have to shuffle things around to make space or find what you need before you get to work.
I suppose it depends on how many bunches you used and your hourly, but for an arrangement this size I'd say guess $350-$500? It's stunning and adds so much to the space, well done!
We figure it has about 400 in just dried flowers, without any sort of retail and design fees on top
@@YouCantEatTheGrass I believe that!! I struggled myself with pricing my dried flower arrangements with all that's involved in them. How to monetarily quantify alllllll the work, from seeding to planting to watering to pruning to harvesting to processing to then finally the actual creation, it takes to get to this step is tricky - consumers often times can't grasp the enormity of work required to get to this stage, i mean you can only really appreciate it fully, in my opinion, if you have done the work yourself. But no doubt everyone can appreciate the beauty of this work, hopefully enough to pay with out fuss what price tag you put on it. Thanks for putting out there into the universe the work that goes into these creations!!!! It helps consumers understand and grow a deeper appreciation for farmers i think.
Look at you guys cleaning up and streamlining your processes!!! What a great investment. I bet that will really help you have a successful growing season
Love to see the prep on the farm. And that floral arrangement is just awesome! That blue and yellow statice is just unreal
The statice is the best
So true. The stuff that you don’t use keeps you from going forward. Organization is all fine and dandy but without the major purge first you just keep shuffling stuff. Stuff is a time warp. Efficiency is key.
So excited to see that drone footage. With all hands on deck, It’s going to be an amazing year for you both! 💕
So much this! It's exhausting digging through piles, moving everything, just to find the 1 thing you actually need
It turned out so beautiful!!! You did a truly amazing job!
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The dry flower arrangement looks beautiful! I didn’t know you could dry marigolds, they look beautiful!
I love the dried marigolds
The dried flower installation is absolutely stunning. Well done you x
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I can’t wait to see how you do flower plantings outside the roadside stand. Folks won’t be able to resist!
Me too! It's going to be so pretty
That installation is insanely incredible! Great idea perfectly executed!
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Woot Woot! you knocked it out of the ballpark. Superb result all the way around. You just might have to maitain the gravity thing but do it anyway. My shop experience would of used a messy glue gun on maybe wood, or bark, etc. but your rolled up wire was the perfect mechanic in this high end arrangement. Just watch the orders come in! Dried flowers is a whole nuther thing.
Lol, I'm definitely hoping for no orders. I'm happy to do the bouquets, but the only event work I want is my own at home events, lol
That dried flower arrangement is absolutely lovely! Great job, Serina! I can just imagine how stunning that arrangement would look in my living room with some battery-oper ated sconce lights underneath to let the color of the flowers really pop! Thanks Serina! 🤩
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We've bought 5 sets of chrome shelving from Costco (BC wait for the sales for like $109 for 6 shelf one, heavy duty caster wheels). I use two sets for growlights in two different rooms, and we use it for overflow storage at our home for kids toys, seasonal wear, etc. I could use another 3 for plant stuff. The only thing I do wrong each time is NOT make enough space between some shelves sometimes (for grow shelves)and have to adjust as they grow (no greenhouse/hoophouse). I love how you two analyze your efficiency around the farm. These types of tips and suggestions are helpful even just at home.
Watching you two getting busy and doing a spring clean up makes me so anxious for Spring! I'm in Ontario and we are still under a good amount of snow, but I'm dying to get out in the garden!
It's coming soon here, a few more weeks. We are lucky though, once the snow melts for us, things dry out really quickly. Not much outside planting till April though
Beautiful dried flower installation! Excellent job-kudos
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It's hard to clean up yard crap! ( I know) The dried flower installation is gorgeous!
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Wow that is beautiful Serena, you could make these and sell them...maybe on a smaller scale.....
We hope to get dome wreaths for spring.
Stunning job on the installation. Something like that down the centre of a table would certainly be a conversation point! No idea how you'd price it, other than how many bunches of flowers, materials, and if you made more of them, you'd get quicker at them.
I'd definitely hope they would get faster to put together with practice. Dried flowers are such a pain to work with though, lol, and there was a lot of flowers in this
I just LOVE your dried flower installation! I really enjoy watching you be creative with your bouquets and dried flowers. It's my absolute favorite content from you. 💜🌻
Thanks! It's fun to play with them, and I hope it encourages everyone that you don't need to be a pro to play with flowers
That’s an absolute beautiful arrangement! I love that the both of you are excited & enthusiastic on your vision for the this coming season ahead. It’s gonna be exciting to watch and share in your endeavors 🌾🌻🌼🍅🫑🌶🥬🙌🏽👍🏽🌺Aloha
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Beautiful arrangement. Good luck on this years garden.
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Love statice (sp?) in the dry arrangements gives so much color! just looks lovely.
They really are a great dried flower
Love the chicken wire idea! You guys are like McGyver of flower growing!
That wasn't my idea - I got that from other foam free florists I've seen online
Gorgeous dried flowers - so bright! Just look at those awesome little seedlings! Getting things clean and clear can make you feel great, in addition to the practical reasons!
All ready for the season to start
Very beautiful arrangement and a nice addition to the flower stand! Great job! 👏👏👏😊🌼
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Your videos make me happy. Love the installation. Keep on making the videos we all enjoy!
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You both are the best. Stay blessed. We see the effort you put into your videos. I for one am very happy to follow along. And also, does Ian have a brother? Asking for a friend. 🤣🤣 Excellent job on the flower install, Serena.
Lol, sorry, no brothers
Beautiful arrangement......💐❤️💐🙏🏻. It would be cool to do the trim all the way around! You could also create a wall of dried flower bouquets 💐 to sell! Thank you , Lord ...Spring is almost here!
That would be fun!
I think it's worth several hundred dollars for a wedding, but how are you going to move that for sale?
It's definitely not movable. It's not for sale either, just something fun to brighten up the stand and to share with everyone
Ohh liked this kind of video! I love thinking through efficiencies and setups 🙂 also your hair looks so good!
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I love how you guys explain lessons learned in detail. Best of luck this growing season!
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I was thinking, since you guys are always harvesting at night, why not install lights outside?
The goal is to not harvest at night, lol
Beautiful job Serina! So glad you documented the process!
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$500 to $1000 US. That is my guess if it was done for a wedding. Looks gorgeous! The space below just looks like it wants a red roof farm painted there 😊
The stand is pretty small, so most areas get used up for merchandise displays. We need a sign about paying and contacting us this year though
Thanks for sharing both of you...
You inspired me to go clean my garden now!! 😊
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As someone who has spent $200 (AUD) on 12 long stem roses before that installation is worth well over $1000, even if you consider your flower quality closer to 'grocery store flowers'. Its HUGE!
There was a lot of flowers in this project
@@YouCantEatTheGrass You can tell! The morning after looking at this again I think I low balled it quite a bit.
Anticipation is building for the new growing season!!! To be a farmer is to believe in tomorrow!! Good luck with all the new beds. You've got me fired up and ready to go here at my place too! Installation is a beautiful success!!👍💪🤑🤞😊
Oh I LOVE that “to be a farmer is to believe in tomorrow” 👍❤️
I love that!
I wish you all a fantastic growing year. The plans for expanding your growing space sound amazing. The floral installation gives me autumn wedding vibes. I can see selling something like that for $500 USD to be a focal piece at the head table of a wedding, but I bet it would have been a lot more money than that in fresh flowers.
It's stunning! Perfect swag for a Welcome! sign or price board for that wall.
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The movable flower rack idea is great! Hope the buckets of flowers are stable when you’re moving them, that’d make me nervous moving them.
The dried flower display, it looks FANTASTIC! I’d price out it out at $500 minimum. I think it’ll help in selling the dried flower bouquets as people will see that and want to bring home a bit of the dried flowers for their own homes.
I don't think the rolling racks would work if it wasn't on our smooth concert floors. They should roll pretty safely there. But not over any sort of bumps
Serena! Your haircut is perfect on you! BEAUTIFUL! Loving the dried flowers! Just had my first zinnia sprout under the grow lights! (Bought the T5s you recommended from Amazon!)
Wow that arrangement is beautiful. It certainly looks like you knew what you were doing.
Also the clean up and your vision sounds beautiful too.
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That’s called talent ❤️ no training required 💚
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I'm very excited about what you will show us this seson :) I can't wait! :)
Me too, I can't wait for the weather to warm ip
Excited about all your ideas for more flowers and more room and shelves. Don’t forget that merchandizing and great signage are as important as what you make and sell.
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250.00 USD if I could keep it from getting dusty, I’d buy it!
There's some kind of spray for dried floral arrangements, I believe.
Dried flowers will eventually get dusty. I've heard about tricks with using a hair dryer to dust them. I'm of the opinion they should just get replaced once they start getting dusty and gross. I find at my house they look good for about a year.
Our passion for spring And bringing new life , what an amazing event! Love your excitement !it’s catching! 🍀🐞❄️🌸
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That arrangement looks really good! I could see offering a few sizes of similar designs besides the dried bouquets, Yay, you've come up with a new product! :}
I'm hoping to get some wreaths done for spring. The installation isn't actually going to be a selling product. It'd can't handle transporting or touching at all
Everything looks great! Love your organization and streamlining! I know it will pay off for you. 👍👏👏👏👏
Beautiful installation, Serina!!! ❤ Grtz from The Netherlands.
I could see that installation going for between $350-$450 if it were sold online like an Etsy type marketplace. If you were selling it in Northern VA where I live, you could probably get away with $550 plus charging a setup fee lol. But these are literally just wild guesses from me with no basis for comparison 😂. It looks gorgeous though, and very expensive!
Love the installation. So enjoy your videos!
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Serena love your hair cut! Can’t wait to see all the flower gardens 🌸 Will you grow any vegetables for your family?
We will still have a bunch of stuff for home garden type things. We are saving a few beds in the farm for us to plant our own personal crops. And 1 of the greenhouses for our tomatoes and cucumbers, ect
I've seen your dried arrangements before but THIS ONE!! Oh my gosh it is beautiful. I was kinda on the fence about dried flowers but I think I'll do some. I'm just starting my little farm. Just closed on 1.44 acres and it is all grass. Unfortunately not the good grass. For me it will be a one-woman operation so I need to keep it on a plan and organized to help me save time and effort. Definitely doing dried flowers because of your influence. =)
The dried arrangement is truly amazing. Ian, we all love your content. You 2 are so genuine, educational and interesting, keep it up! Also, I think your hair gets a 1/2" closer to Einstein every video you guys put out lately. LOL. The longer length is working for you, I say let it go and let's see what happens!
Great job! Farm is looking good. Flower arrangement is beautiful (might have been a little easier if wire roll was 3-6” below ceiling…could roll wire around some dried moss to help hold flower stems in). Should they start to fall out a little hot glue may save the day. So glad you have space to make your bouquet arranging more efficient. You always looked so cramped. Time saving is crucial. If you can save one minute per bouquet and you make 60 bouquets, that’s one hour of time saved……one hour….that’s huge. Kraft paper flower sleeves might make a difference as well. More expensive than paper, but no folding or stapling. There seem to be many different types available. Also, a stem cutter may be helpful….one cut instead of a dozen. Nicole (Flower Hill Farm) has one. She could tell you if works well for her. It looked like it worked well, although she had it on a table that seemed too low for a lot of cuts which would put stress on the back. I think Sunflower Steve sent it to her. On a different note, an exercise I learned about years ago to prevent carpel tunnel just popped into my mind….clench your fist as hard as you can and hold it that way for a time (sorry don’t remember how long), then open your hand and stretch it as much as you can and hold it. Repeat it several times. There’s probably something on line that would give you more information. You do a lot of repetitive motion with your cutting hand. You both use your hands a lot. Might help prevent something down the line. Happy almost spring. That little weed flower was nice to see…a preview of better things to come. 🥰
It will definitely be nice to have all that extra space to move around. That room got pretty packed on those big flower days last summer, lol.
A stem cutter is definitely on the list for this year - thanks for the reminder. I've been avoiding getting one till now because of our children being in all the work areas - they are trained to be safe with knives, but those cutters are super dangerous.
I'm pretty lucky that my hands don't bother me much with the snips for harvesting. Potentially because I'm ambidextrous, and I switch my hands out before I get fatigued. But I'll keep those exercises in mind, because it's definitely something I think about (especially after using the soil blocker, lol)
I'd love to see a fresh version of that installation!! BRAVO guys!
Me too! Maybe this summer
I notice it. I’ve always wondered why y’all never put in the time toward the esthetics of your beautiful space… but I understand how much hard work y’all put in growing your produce and flowers plus having the younger kids to contend with.. I’ve been waiting for the clean up. 😊♥️
The dried flower installation is BEAUTIFUL
I live in Southern California and pretty much garden all year long except for December-February. You make me soooo excited to get out there and grow my veggies and flowers. I have started so many flowers by seed this year. Thank you for your content and excitement in gardening. Good Luck on your new venture into flower farming. Im going to be watching you grow...
I have drank a lot of Kombucha and never had that problem. But sometimes maybe I would hope I did being 60 years old I drank 20 oz of ginger beer I made yesterday and it didn't do anything darn it
You did an amazing job on the dried floral installation! My guess would be $750+
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I really enjoy you both. You are real and show things like it is. Not always perfect but always real..You videos are entertaining and teachable . Best of luck in the upcoming growing season. You have given me the desire to grow flowers !
LOL ok, that was so funny- "I create a mess so that my cleaning loving clients can spend more time doing what they love..." truly internet gold right there!!
Your dried flower arrangement is beautiful! I so enjoy your creativity and focus on constantly improving your farm.
Put your logo and name of your farm under that dried flower arrangement or put up some photos of your vegetables, flowers to fill the blank space on the walls. Also print some business cards for people to grab while they’re shopping in the stall.
Just some ideas to help you guys 😃
The dried flower arrangement is beautiful. There's no way I could put a price on it, though. I had the thought about when your drive-up customers see the arrangement in the next months, that it mind make them think how beautiful and long lasting dried flowers are. It may encourage them to purchase dried flower arrangements.
The dried flowers definitely don't sell as often as the fresh. So I'm hopeful too
What a beautiful creation!! Something like this could look beautiful inside the house over a doorway or headboard.
So grateful you guys are here, sharing your journey, thankyou, it's informative, inspiring, entertaining, heart warming. I am very glad I found you over the past year of my first year of flower farming.
That is AMAZING!!! So gorgeous!! 💜
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You did a great job creating a wall masterpiece!
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Spring is almost here it is so good you guys are getting around getting things ready hopefully for your most profitable season. That flower arrangement is gorgeous and will be an eye catcher for your customers be ready to make smaller ones for people to buy you will be asked. Bring it on You Can't Eat the Grass we are ready!
Loving the dried flower display in the shop. I think you guys may need an extra pair of hands with doubling your output in flowers so that you have time for making videos and looking after your health. Love your channel and will stay tuned for your new season.
That flower arrangement is absolutely stunning!! 😍😍
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Why aren’t we all talking about how great Serina’s bangs look? Thanks for the great video!
2:30 the sound of the fire is so relaxing
It's fun to have a fire now and then
That's at least 10 bouquets of flowers. Plus time, that makes it 3-400 dollars.
You could do different shapes with the wire and I could see a bride getting married under something like that and paying a couple hundred or so for you to make it, double bonus it is already preserved and the bride can hang it in her home. Make it easy to unattach and rehang! Very fun idea!!
The dried flower piece in market house looks fantastic! Your video where you made the Christmas ornaments with dried flowers really inspired me to grow dried flowers this year!....I'm so excited to see how colorful things are going to get on your farm this year! Sounds like you have a handle on some time saving tricks. I know you guys are environmentally friendly but I would think a little electric powered buggy would save you guys time getting around on the farm. Great job so far!
We have talked about it, but we would have to find one for the right price
Stunning flowers. What a natural talent! You are all so fab. I’m looking forward to seeing how this year goes for you. X
The dried flower swag turned out so beautiful! I makes me want to put one over my fireplace, or on the mantle.
Have you thought about opening an internship for those who want to learn how to work in a flower farm? Even just for help on the weekends before market. For those nearby anyway.
You are so right, I need to do a major clean out of the garage TODAY before the season gets busy. Temps in the 50's this afternoon and snow tomorrow. An uncluttered space is such a great mental gift. Love the dried flower swag too. I'm starting seeds for many new to me flowers just for drying. Never thought of using the chicken wire as a form and the swag is really pretty!
I know it will be hard to get a clean done for us once the spring comes, so it was now or never. I agree though, it's feels really nice to have it all tidied up
The dried flowers wall arrangement is magnificent, well done job. 👍💐