Floret Flower Farming Online Workshop 2026
Hello friends,
By the time you've read this blog post, I will have already been studying for one week in the 6 week online Floret Flower Farming Workshop.
Every year in October, Floret Flower Farm opens registrations for their yearly online Floret Flower Farming Workshop. It's an in depth 6 week workshop covering all things flower farming: including whether flower farming is right for you (and what you might want it to look like), planning and mapping out your flower farming operation, making a start at flower farming, growing your flowers, sales and marketing, and finally harvesting cut flowers and selling them in whichever way works for you.
Their online workshop has a massive course book, and hundreds of video lessons to go through, along with question and answer video sessions, and an online community for those learning together in the workshop.
I've wanted to do this workshop for many years, and when registrations opened last October, hubby encouraged me to register and finally fulfill my dream to study with Floret. After registering, it wasn't long before a heavy package arrived in the mail from Floret, containing the course book and other workshop goodies.
I spent a long time flicking through the pages of the workshop course book, getting excited for the workshop starting in early January 2026, and then in early December it was time for workshop orientation. There were some online videos to watch about what was to happen in the workshop, along with some administration tasks to accomplish ahead of the starting date. One exciting part was a trip to a stationery store to buy workshop supplies including a poster board, graph paper and tracing paper, and a new A4 binder to hold all the worksheets I would be downloading and filling out...
And now it's January, and the Floret Flower Farming Workshop has begun. I'll be super busy with the workshop for the next 5 weeks, but I already have enough blog posts lined up to cover this period (hopefully, if everything goes to plan...).
Have a wonderful day
Julie-Ann
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A New Bullet Journal for a New Year
Hello friends,
And welcome back to 2026 on the blog...
A new year usually means a fresh new start, and it was quite lucky for me that my current Leuchtturm 1917 notebook containing my weekly Bullet Journal (BUJO) spreads was due to finish at the end of 2025. This not only gave me an opportunity to buy a new Leuchtturm 1917 dotted notebook (in the colour Dusty Rose), but it also meant I could decorate it with a bunch of new stickers, with this notebook's theme being "witchy".
After carefully looking through my embarrassingly large sticker collection, I found some stickers which fit the theme, and placed them strategically on the front and back of the notebook's covers.
With that done, it was time to decorate the front section of the notebook, before starting on the first weekly spread of the year.
I've tried many different bullet journal set ups over the years, but this weekly set up works the best for me in terms of seeing the week as a whole, and to make sure I accomplish all my tasks for the Crafty Gardener blog, my small business Hearth and Oak, and for my upcoming 6 week online flower farming workshop with Floret Flower Farm.
On the left hand page are my weekly goals, weekly habit tracker, and general to do list (remembering things like upcoming birthdays, specific household tasks, and also to book vet appointments etc).
On the right hand side are the days of the week, showing appointments, boring stuff like putting out the rubbish, cleaning and washing, and also tasks to do each day. I like using the SMART goal framework, with goals being specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely. It means I actually get tasks done, and not procrastinate.
With everything written in for the coming week, my first weekly BUJO spread was ready for the first day back at work for 2026. Not a fun thing to think about after two weeks on holiday, but at least I had a head start for the coming year first thing on Monday morning...
Have a wonderful day
Julie-Ann
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