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Thank you so much for joining us today! As you may know, October is our month to celebrate our Slow Flowers members and one of our goals is to showcase and thank as many of our Premium Level members as possible, our top supporters.
Just-picked pastels (left) and vivid hues (right) (c) Jamie Horton Photograph
Today, we're visiting David Brunton of Right Field Farm in Millersville, Maryland, outside of Annapolis. David is a past guest of this podcast - you can go back to listen to my original interview with him in July 2018 at debraprinzing.com for Episode 529.
David Brunton facilitated my 2018 tour of Right Field Farm, including a row-by-row walking tour of the botanical highlights.
One key takeaway from my past conversations with David and his wife and partner Lina Brunton, is that they know what and how their farm should work for their family's lifestyle. On their family farm they grow, design and deliver a mix of perennial and annual flowers in Anne Arundel County, Maryland with an eye toward all the natural beauty the region has to offer. From April to October, Right Field Farm delivers over two hundred varieties of flowers in abundant, garden-inspired hand-tied arrangements. Newsletter customers receive weekly updates during the season with all the latest information, including any specials or pop-up flower sales.
Growing up! Flowers and kids, with Lina and David Brunton (c) Jamie Horton Photography
They are committed to nurturing the health of their farmland, and tending the thriving ecology that it supports there. In addition to flowers, Right Field Farm is home to laying hens, honeybees, sheep (for wool), dogs (for companionship), and their four children. They don't use any pesticides - not on their flowers or in their soil - which means Right Field Farm is also home to wild bees and birds and frogs and soil fungi and all manner of woodland critters.
A Right Field Farm seasonal bouquet, hand-tied and displayed in a glass jar (c) Jamie Horton Photograph
When I asked David if he would join me on our new video-vodcast channel, he said the timing was perfect. Just a few days ago on Saturday, October 16th, David planned to design for the season's final week of bouquet deliveries. He joined me on screen, from his beautiful covered porch where he always designs, and produced some epic hand-tied bouquets during our conversation.
Right Field Farms bouquet options for local Sunday Delivery subscribers or Flower Share customers.
You will love watching him and enjoy all the topics we touched -- from deciding what to grow and how to make sure you have plenty to harvest each week of a 26-week-long season for subscribers and a la carte delivery customers -- to the story of one family's flower-based life and business.
Right Field Farm's summer bouquet palette (c) Jamie Horton Photograph
RFF's Pearl of Opar (Talinum paniculatum)- a favorite bouquet ingredient recommended by David Brunton (c) Jamie Horton Photograph
That was one of the most enjoyable and relaxing experiences I've ever had on a Zoom interview! I had to actually turn off the recording because David and I were having trouble "ending" the conversation - it was too much fun.
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We have devoted the entire month of October to Member Appreciation Month, with something special scheduled every day to highlight our members, leaders and visionaries of the Slow Flowers Movement. In addition to joining me here on the podcast, I've hosted Instagram Live conversations and shared stories and other resources like our new Slow Flowers Video, as well as across our other many channels, including at Slow Flowers Journal and in our weekly email blasts.
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