Grow beautiful blooms for bouquets, events, and subscriptions. Local flowers offer freshness, unique varieties, and sustainability that imported flowers can't match.
Consider these related business ideas and specializations:
Grow beautiful blooms for bouquets, events, and subscriptions. Local flowers offer freshness, unique varieties, and sustainability that imported flowers can't match.
Consider these related business ideas and specializations:
San Juan Islands-specific considerations for this business:
Test this idea before investing heavily:
Plant a 200 sq ft cutting garden with 5-6 proven varieties. Sell mixed bouquets at farmers market for one season.
Which flowers produce best in your conditions? What price points work? Do customers prefer tight arrangements or loose bunches? How long is your actual harvest window?
You're selling out of bouquets weekly and people are asking about wedding flowers or subscriptions.
Expected startup and operating expenses:
Areas where quality investment pays off:
Flowers without proper cooling wilt quickly—a cooler extends vase life and lets you bank inventory
Good enough: Used commercial cooler or converted chest freezer with temperature controller
Dull cuts crush stems and reduce water uptake; dirty buckets introduce bacteria that shortens vase life
Good enough: Professional floral snips and food-grade buckets; not expensive but quality matters
Cheap flower seed produces weak stems and poor blooms—you're selling beauty, invest in quality genetics
Good enough: Order from flower-farm suppliers like Johnny's or Floret; skip packet seed
Areas where cost-cutting makes sense:
Financial timing and planning notes:
Strategies to reduce risk and increase odds of success:
Join shomby today and start selling to your local community. We provide the platform—you bring the passion.
We build shomby around your business—not the other way around. If there's a feature, integration, or tool that would help your cut flowers & arrangements business succeed, we want to hear about it.
Grow and sell fresh, local vegetables directly to consumers. Even a backyard garden can produce significant income when focused on high-value crops with strong local demand.
Propagate and sell plants, from vegetable starts to ornamentals. Spring seedling sales and year-round houseplant demand create multiple revenue streams.
Raise laying hens for fresh, pasture-raised eggs. Local eggs with orange yolks from happy hens command premium prices from health-conscious consumers.
San Juan Islands-specific considerations for this business:
Test this idea before investing heavily:
Plant a 200 sq ft cutting garden with 5-6 proven varieties. Sell mixed bouquets at farmers market for one season.
Which flowers produce best in your conditions? What price points work? Do customers prefer tight arrangements or loose bunches? How long is your actual harvest window?
You're selling out of bouquets weekly and people are asking about wedding flowers or subscriptions.
Expected startup and operating expenses:
Areas where quality investment pays off:
Flowers without proper cooling wilt quickly—a cooler extends vase life and lets you bank inventory
Good enough: Used commercial cooler or converted chest freezer with temperature controller
Dull cuts crush stems and reduce water uptake; dirty buckets introduce bacteria that shortens vase life
Good enough: Professional floral snips and food-grade buckets; not expensive but quality matters
Cheap flower seed produces weak stems and poor blooms—you're selling beauty, invest in quality genetics
Good enough: Order from flower-farm suppliers like Johnny's or Floret; skip packet seed
Areas where cost-cutting makes sense:
Financial timing and planning notes:
Strategies to reduce risk and increase odds of success:
Join shomby today and start selling to your local community. We provide the platform—you bring the passion.
We build shomby around your business—not the other way around. If there's a feature, integration, or tool that would help your cut flowers & arrangements business succeed, we want to hear about it.
Grow and sell fresh, local vegetables directly to consumers. Even a backyard garden can produce significant income when focused on high-value crops with strong local demand.
Propagate and sell plants, from vegetable starts to ornamentals. Spring seedling sales and year-round houseplant demand create multiple revenue streams.
Raise laying hens for fresh, pasture-raised eggs. Local eggs with orange yolks from happy hens command premium prices from health-conscious consumers.