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It's the end of April, and things are moving fast — maybe too fast. The rain stopped weeks early, it's been in the 70s, and Hayden's scrambling to get irrigation set up while working 14-hour days at her corporate job. A whole bed of ranunculus? Crispy dead. She forgot about them during her work week. That's the reality nobody posts about.

But here's what she did pull off: eight bouquet subscription pre-sales totaling her first $1,000. Every single buyer is someone she knows. Not a stranger in the bunch. And not one of them has seen a photo of what they're actually getting. They bought because they trust her. That's what relationship-based marketing does.

She ran a $200 ad in the local Newsburg community newsletter and made $240 back in subscription sales within the first week — plus new email subscribers she can't even track yet. She went from 4 beds to 10 finished 20-foot rows, with plans for 17 total. She applied to two grants, and even though she hasn't heard back, the process forced her to write a three-year business projection, budget out her U-pick events down to the cost of scissors, and think bigger than just this first season.

The biggest win? A free queer wildflower walk she's hosting at Champoeg State Park that got shared by over 80 people on Instagram. She asked a dozen local businesses to share it, every one said yes, and now she's getting messages from people she's never met. One connection led to an invitation to vendor at a 1,000-person plant sale.

She's also setting boundaries — done working outside by 1 p.m., actually cooking dinner instead of eating mac and cheese for the fifth night in a row, and canceling plans when she needs a recovery day. Because the busy season hasn't even started yet.

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Hayden's four months into building Big Oak Flower Farm and she's in that weird middle spot — wishing she was selling more while intentionally holding back because she doesn't have enough flowers yet. Sound familiar to anyone starting out?

The free queer wildflower walk she organized at Champoeg State Park? Twenty people showed up, almost 100 people and businesses shared it on Instagram, and one attendee turned out to be a tourism marketing director who called her event email "marketing gold." She didn't spend a dime on advertising. She just offered something free that her ideal customers actually wanted, then asked local businesses to share it. Every single one said yes.

She won a $900 grant from Wine Country Pride to fund supplies for her U-pick events — snips, vases, signage, all the stuff that adds up way faster than you'd think. And even though she didn't get the money just to learn, the grant application process forced her to budget down to the cost of parking signs and scissors. That kind of planning pays off whether you get funded or not.

On the sales side, she's at $1,000 in pre-sold subscriptions, a couple of walk-up bouquet sales, her first bulk "bucket of blooms" order for a baby shower, and a $40 custom bouquet she sold at a party after someone saw the flowers she'd brought as a gift. She's also dropping bouquets at local coffee shops with her business card — something that terrified her a month ago and now feels natural.

The real talk this episode: $1,300 for farm insurance as a first-year business (and why you need it before your first event), using Wave for free accounting, and why she's finally turning to AI to help her figure out what to actually say in her marketing emails instead of staring at a blank screen.

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It's been two months since Hayden decided this was happening, and things are getting messy in the best way.

The work party? Eight friends showed up at 10 a.m. and worked for hours pulling out buried metal, layers of old landscape fabric, and foot-long weed roots. At the end, they all thanked HER. Turns out people stuck in apartments and suburbs are genuinely excited to get muddy on a farm. She's got 20-foot rows going in, her first seedlings planted, and a grow tent crammed into an 8-by-12 converted shed she can barely fit inside.

On the business side — website drama. She built the entire site on Shopify, hated it, and started over on Squarespace. Hear why, and what she learned about choosing the right platform when you're small and seasonal and need to throw up a product listing in 15 minutes, not 2 hours.

She launched her email list February 10th and hit 43 subscribers in the first month — half of them strangers she doesn't recognize. She got them without spending a dime, just word of mouth and Instagram. Her welcome email includes a survey, and the responses are already shaping her sales plan: more people want grab-and-go bouquets than subscriptions, and at least one person signed up specifically to support a small, queer-owned farm business.

We also get into what's next: a possible Mother's Day peony pop-up, selling bouquets through local coffee shops and wineries, a creative idea about marketing to real estate agents for closing gifts, and why she's skipping farmers markets entirely. You'll hear real-time decision making, plenty of second-guessing, and both of us laughing at the chaos of figuring this out as she goes.

This is what it really looks like to build a farm business from nothing. No polish. No playbook. Just figuring it out.

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I can look out my kitchen window and see Hayden's flower farm taking shape. She lives in a little cottage right on our family property, and I've had a front-row seat to every breakthrough and every meltdown.

Hayden is 32. She moved back to the family farm after years of city life because — as she puts it — "it's so much more fulfilling to wake up and go outside and see things growing than there is at any corporate job, no matter how cushy it is." But the practical side of her kept saying no. She grew up watching how hard farming is. She's got good health insurance. She sits at a desk. Why would she go do that all over again?

Because the dream wouldn't leave her alone. Sound familiar?

In this episode, you'll hear the story behind the name "Big Oak Flower Farm" — it came from her childhood, when she and her cousins would call each other up and say "meet at the big oak in an hour" or "let's race to the big oak." When that name hit her in the car one day, she knew it was right.

You'll hear her scrappy funding strategy: $500 saved from working twice a month on a neighbor's farm, driving her old pickup to get $10 loads of compost from the city waste treatment facility, and doing absolutely everything herself.

We dig into three sales models she's weighing — CSA subscriptions for early cash flow, a little farm store for walk-up sales, and you-pick events (she's dreaming of "sunset in the flower field" evenings). And you'll hear me pushing back in real time on her decision to NOT start an email list yet.

No formal training. No business degree. No trust fund. Just a woman figuring it out. If she can do it, so can you.

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Can email marketing really work for small farms? Jennifer Guilizia is living proof.

Jennifer runs a 20-acre regenerative flower farm in Oregon, specializing in growing and hybridizing dahlias. After losing her lease land and purchasing a new property, she joined Charlotte's Farm Marketing Mastery program (now The Profitable Farmer) and used a deceptively simple strategy to build a thriving local customer base from scratch.

In just six farmer's market appearances, Jennifer collected hundreds of local email addresses by offering a bouquet giveaway at her booth.

She then used those emails to drive traffic to her new on-farm pop-up stand — sending reminders both the day before and the morning of each sale.

The result? Lines at the gate and customers buying three bouquets at a time. When she missed sending one Saturday morning email, the difference in foot traffic was immediate and obvious.

Jennifer and Charlotte also discuss pricing confidence (why the highest-priced vendor often sells the most), the mindset shifts that separate struggling farms from profitable ones, and why investing in coaching and personal development directly correlates with income growth.

They cover why your email list follows you even when you change locations, lose a lease, or shut down a farmer's market — and why social media followers in distant cities can still become valuable customers.

The episode wraps with details on the Profitable Dahlia Summit (March 3–5), a virtual event featuring 12 speakers including Marin Mathis and Julio from The Flower Hat, covering tuber sales, wedding flowers, pricing, and the mindset of turning a backyard dahlia hobby into a real business. Live access is $99; the all-access pass with lifetime replays is $199.

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Links, Resources & Names Mentioned:

• Jennifer Guilizia — The Flowering Farmhouse: thefloweringfarmhouse.com | Social media: @thefloweringfarmhouse
• Backyard Bouquet Podcast — Jennifer's podcast
• Farm Marketing Mastery / The Profitable Farmer — Charlotte's coaching program
• Profitable Dahlia Summit — March 3–5, virtual event
• Marin Mathis — The Farmhouse Flower Farm (speaker on tuber sales, grows 8,000 dahlias/year)
• Julio — The Flower Hat (speaker on dahlias for weddings and events)
• Hood River Fruit Loop — scenic loop drive in Hood River, Oregon (mentioned as drive-by traffic source)
• Pricing: $99 live access / $199 all-access pass with lifetime replays and speaker bonuses

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Are you a farmer struggling to turn a profit despite working harder than ever? In this episode, farm marketing expert Charlotte Smith answers the most common questions from over 2,000 farmers who attended her recent webinar—and the answers might surprise you.

Charlotte explains why social media is a distraction for most farmers and why email marketing should be your number one priority. She breaks down a counterintuitive truth: at farmers markets, your primary job isn't making sales—it's capturing email addresses. Why? Because the lifetime value of a single customer can reach $5,000 or more, compared to a one-time $50 purchase you may never see again.

You'll learn practical steps including how to collect emails legally (and why using your personal Gmail can get your account shut down), which email platforms work best for farmers, and how to keep customers buying all winter long—even when the farmers market closes.

Charlotte also addresses the overwhelm that keeps farmers stuck: how to find time for marketing when you're already exhausted running the farm. Her solution involves creating two hours of protected "focus time" daily to work on money-making activities rather than constantly reacting to interruptions.

Whether you're a beginning farmer or have been in business for decades without turning a profit, this episode provides the foundational marketing strategy that's helped Charlotte's clients achieve results like going from $45,000 to $300,000 in annual revenue.

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What happens when farmers stop struggling alone and finally get the marketing and mindset tools they need?

In this episode of The Profitable Mindset Podcast, host Charlotte Smith steps back and lets her Farm Marketing Mastery clients tell their own stories. These aren't hypotheticals—they're real farmers who were losing money, burning out, and wondering if they'd have to give up farming altogether.

You'll hear from Alyssa, who ran her first-ever five-day subscription launch and sold almost double what she'd made in any single month over ten years of farming. From Stacey, who made back twice her program investment in under 30 days and now sells $17-per-pound chicken breast in one of the poorest counties in North Carolina. From Vanessa who went from $25,000 in year one to over $300,000 by year three.

But here's what makes these stories different: it's not just about the money. Farmers share how their marriages improved, how they stopped crying over marketing, how they finally believed in themselves enough to raise their prices without flinching. One farmer's husband quit his off-farm job. Another built a farm store. Several went from sold-out waitlists to calm Sunday planning sessions with their spouses.

If you've ever wondered whether direct-to-consumer farm marketing actually works—or whether you're just not cut out for the business side of farming—this episode is your proof that it's possible.

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Why do your gorgeous farm photos get dozens of likes but zero sales? Charlotte Smith has the answer—and it's probably not what you think.

In this Q&A episode of The Profitable Mindset Podcast, Charlotte responds to questions pouring in from farmers who signed up for her upcoming Farm Marketing Fix webinar. These aren't hypothetical problems—they're the real struggles keeping small farmers stuck.

The first question hits hard: "I have a small flower farm and I can't sell hardly anything. I put it on Facebook and I get likes and shares, but no money." Charlotte breaks down what's missing: a clear call to action and a defined brand. Without both, you're entertaining people instead of converting them into customers.

She introduces the Rule of One Framework—the system her successful clients use to cut through overwhelm: one ideal customer, one core message, one primary platform, and one call to action. When farmers narrow their focus this way, marketing finally starts making sense.

Charlotte also tackles a question about marketing mindset, explaining why the farmers who succeed share a specific belief: marketing is serving people, not pushing products. She shares what she discovered after years of teaching—students with identical training and similar products had wildly different results based entirely on their beliefs about selling.

The episode wraps with advice on transitioning from wholesale to direct-to-consumer sales, and why comparison marketing ("our beef is better than the grocery store") actually backfires long-term.

If you're creating content consistently but your bank account doesn't reflect the effort, this episode will show you what's missing.

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Can you really build a profitable farm business while homeschooling, caring for family, and working from a small homestead? Jen Collins proves you can.

In this episode of The Profitable Mindset Podcast, host Charlotte Smith sits down with client Jen Collins, owner of The Collins Cluckery in southeast Michigan. Jen raises pastured poultry and is launching farm classes—all from just a few acres.

When Jen joined Farm Marketing Mastery nine months ago, she was selling chickens to friends and family and treating her farm "like a business" rather than running an actual business. She didn't have a marketing plan, struggled with confidence, and felt overwhelmed by where to start.

Fast forward to today: Jen has grown her email list from 37 to 71 subscribers, increased annual sales from $4,000 to over $10,000 (a 127% increase), and developed the confidence to call herself a farmer and business owner.

In this conversation, Jen gets real about the discomfort of putting herself out there, asking for email addresses, handling unsubscribes, and collecting payment from difficult customers. She also shares how tracking where her customers come from (church, a chiropractor's office, word of mouth) helped her focus her marketing efforts.

• If you're a woman over 40 wondering whether it's too late to start something new, or a small farmer unsure how to turn your hobby into income, this episode is for you.

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What happens when you finally hit your farm revenue goals—but you're exhausted, overwhelmed, and thinking about quitting? It's more common than you'd think.

In this final installment of the four-part Year-End Business Marketing Planning Workshop, host Charlotte Smith tackles the piece most farmers skip: personal fulfillment. Because a profitable farm you hate running isn't really success.

Charlotte shares from her own experience running a raw milk dairy. After eight years of hosting a popular (and profitable) farm camp, she realized she was done—and gave herself permission to stop. When she turned 50, she hired and trained milkers so she could step back from the physical labor she'd outgrown. These weren't failures. They were intentional choices that made her farm sustainable long-term.

In this episode, Charlotte guides you through questions like: What did you actually enjoy doing this year? What are you complete with—and ready to never do again? What was your biggest moneymaker with the least effort? And critically: Who do you need to become to hit your 2026 goals?

She also walks through a practical exercise for projecting revenue by product. List every way you make money on the left. Write your 2026 sales goal for each on the right. Add it up. Does it match your total revenue goal? If not, you've just identified the gap you need to solve—whether that's raising prices, adding volume, or cutting what isn't working.

Charlotte gets honest about the mindset shifts that made the biggest difference for her, including giving up weeknight wine to improve her sleep, energy, and focus.

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