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What is First in Flowers?

First in Flowers is looking to partner with the best in the business – industry leaders, tech experts, and our fellow flower enthusiasts! Our goal? To bring a whole lot of sunshine to Delaware's specialty cut flower scene! Not only do we want to see more folks falling in love with Delaware-grown specialty cut flowers but we're also building a community of Delaware flower growers. Together, we'll share growing tips, farming experiences, and technical know-how.

 

We've got industry experts, like the incredible Dave Dowling, Cut Flower Specialist on board to help us create a special "year-round" growing calendar just for Delaware, perfect for flower farmers, cottage farmers, and even home garden growers. Our goal is to help flower farmers in Delaware grow a variety of beautiful flowers all year long.


If you’re a flower farmer in Delaware and interested in farmer meet-up opportunities (alongside Delaware-located flower farmers like Chris Sylvester from Spectrum Farms and Krystyna Corkell from Eastern Sky Flower Farm), participating in farm tours of Delaware flower farms, and attending technical speaker workshops, then please keep reading and consider filling out the survey below and we will be in touch!

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Together we can make Delaware first in flowers!

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Flower Farmers 

First in Flowers is an initiative to help strengthen our flower farmers here in Delaware, build our consumer base, and look to expanding cut flower crops offered! As local flower farmers who can identify as a small business, we all feel the pressure of the economy as well as the impacts of convenient and cost-efficient global choices offered to consumers. These pressures at times can cause us to feel we have to be more competitive. But how does this feeling of competitiveness translate in our business actions? With First in Flowers, we want to ensure that we stay competitive as a community and work together to strengthen our local economy and consumer base when it comes to specialty cut flowers. First in Flowers will focus on our flower farmers by offering yearly meetups to gather and chat with fellow Delaware located flower farmers, a yearly farm tour, and a yearly educational experience. What will this cost you? Nothing, but participation. What does participation look like for you? We ask that you fill out a yearly survey that will help us gauge what specialty cut flowers and other crops our flower farmers are currently growing here in Delaware, if they are expanding what they are growing, what their growing seasons look like, and if they are extending their growing seasons. Of course, we also want you to attend the yearly events that we mentioned above, but these are not required and understand busy schedules that might prohibit being able to make these events. Lastly, we would also love to come visit our Delaware located flower farms to capture some of what makes their local farm so special to Delaware for our education marketing campaign. That’s right, First in Flowers will also be completing an educational marketing campaign to strengthen the regional consumer base through highlighting local cut flowers being grown in Delaware as well as introducing our flower farmers. Of course, being included on the First in Flowers website and social media is voluntary and not required.

Flower Farmers
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Upcoming Events

Flower Farmer Technical Workshop

July 31st, 2025 @ 1:00-4:00pm

University of Delaware Paradee Center, Dover, DE

Join us for an exciting deep dive into crop-specific techniques with Laura Beth Resnick of Butterbee Farm! This year's workshop goes beyond fundamentals, focusing on expanding your crop selection with three specialized sessions:

  • Grow Ranunculus & Anemone – Master these tricky spring crops with insights on sourcing, disease control, and growing methods.

  • Grow Shrubs for Cutting – Discover top-performing woody perennials and essential maintenance tips.

  • Thanksgiving Cutting Garden – Learn how to grow for late fall with unheated tunnels and strategic planting.

Delaware flower farmers, register for free and join us on Thursday, July 31, 2025, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the University of Delaware Paradee Center, Dover, DE.

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Flower Farm Tour

​​June 19th, 2025 @ 10:00am

Derby Mill Farms (Dover) 

Join us for a guided tour of Derby Mill Farms! Derby Mill Farm Botanicals is a no-till, family-run specialty-cut flower farm located in the heart of Kent County, Delaware. Sisters Vicki Cronis-Nohe and Paula Soghomonian are farming in the field where they played as children, after moving back to the Delmarva region several years ago. We started the farm in 2020, and use sustainable and agriculturally regenerative methods, with the intent of improving our soil fertility. Cover crops, compost, biodynamic preparations, and organic material inputs are helping us build tilth, little by little.

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302-242-4253

firstinflowers@gmail.com

2568 Spectrum Farms Road

Felton, DE 19943

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