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Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown, founder of Foxglove Farmhouse in York, Maine and author of The Beginner's Cut Flower Garden (Timber Press).

Feb 16, 2026

9:26
I thought that was a really kind of clever way to think about it.
9:31
Yeah, I think, you know, and again, as you pointed out, our growing zones are so different with winter here being long.
9:38
And if you're a gardener, you know that that's a lot of time to be sort of twiddling your thumbs.
9:47
For me, I always say dream big, but start small when it comes to being a beginner gardener.
9:53
And so the way I oftentimes encourage people to dream their garden into life is to find inspiration in so many different places.
10:02
So as you mentioned, one of the first things is going to social media and finding local veg growers or flower farmers.
10:10
And some of them are incredibly generous with the information they share, you know, when that what time they're sowing seeds or how they're harvesting it.
15:05
Cause those options with those kinds of things to work with, there's really quite a lot you could do there.

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