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Cultivating Place: Just in time for Mother's Day: BLOOM! with the Slow Flowers Society's Deb Prizing

All images courtesy of Deb Prinzing, Slow Flowers Society. Bio photo by Missy Palacol. All rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Deb Prinzing, Slow Flowers Society. Bio photo by Missy Palacol. All rights reserved.

We are now mid-May, halfway through a month of graduations, spring celebrations, and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US this coming weekend.

Something that all of these celebratory kinds of human-marked rituals and events have in common? We so often mark them with the best of our most loved flowers of the season.

All images courtesy of Deb Prinzing, Slow Flowers Society. Bio photo by Missy Palacol. All rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Deb Prinzing, Slow Flowers Society. Bio photo by Missy Palacol. All rights reserved.

With that as our touchstone, I am so pleased to once again be in conversation this week with Deb Prinzing, founder of the Slow Flowers movement here in the U.S. and Canada, and of The Slow Flowers Society, representing the needs, successes, stories, and voices of the floral world in the Slow Flowers Journal, in the weekly Slow Flowers Podcast, and in the annual gathering known as the Slow Flowers Summit, this year happening in Seattle, WA June 26th and 27th.

As yet another facet of her floral-focused advocacy, Deb is co-founder and Editorial Director of Bloom Imprint Books, which identifies, develops, and publishes projects that shine a light on the floral lifestyle, showcasing the stories of floral personalities, creatives, entrepreneurs, farmers, artisans, and makers.

Their newest title, “Furrow and Flour,” by sisters Sarah Kuenzi and Beth Syphers, fits right in with this week’s themes.

I don’t know how she does it all, but I am so pleased she’s back to share with us about it. Enjoy!

All images courtesy of Deb Prinzing, Slow Flowers Society. Bio photo by Missy Palacol. All rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Deb Prinzing, Slow Flowers Society. Bio photo by Missy Palacol. All rights reserved.

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Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden, Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of garden and floral designing mother and a wildlife biologist father.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.