The Best Courses and Workshops for Flower Farmers (2026 - 2027 Guide)

Last updated September 23, 2026.

Some of the best things I've learned about flowers came from growers who love what they do and want other people to love it too. I recommend the people on this list the way I'd recommend a friend. This is the list I send to clients when they ask where to start, current as of this writing, because enrollment windows in this field open and close fast.

Three dates worth marking now. Floret's scholarship applications for the 2027 workshop are open through September 29, 2026, and enrollment itself opens October 19 through 23, 2026. Blomma Flower Farm's dried wreath workshop is October 11, 2026.

Some of these are educators my clients and I have learned from directly, and where I have a working relationship, I'll say so.

The Floret Flower Farming Workshop

Erin Benzakein's farm in Washington's Skagit Valley has taught more flower farmers than anyone, and the Floret Flower Farming Workshop remains the most complete education in the field. It covers growing, harvesting, and building a farm business, and it runs once a year, so the scarcity is real. Enrollment for the 2027 workshop opens October 19 through 23, 2026, and the waitlist is how you hear first. Even better, scholarship applications for 2027 are open through September 29, 2026, which is worth acting on this week if the tuition is a stretch.

Not ready for the full workshop? Floret currently offers a free Summer Mini Course, a three-part video series on growing, harvesting, and arranging cut flowers. There is also a Flower Arranging Workshop, a deep resource library, and books that belong on every farmer's shelf. Start free, and you'll know whether the big workshop is your next step.

Best for anyone serious about flower farming as a business, from first season to scaling up.

The Dahlia House Floral Design Retreat with Ariella Chezar

Anne Long of The Dahlia House hosted Ariella Chezar for a three-day floral design intensive in the Skagit Valley this September, and it's the one to watch for next year. It's built for the farmer-florist side of your business. Students work with locally sourced flowers to build large installations, hand-held bouquets, and table arrangements, with a focus on sustainable mechanics and reusable methods that hold up for real events. The 2026 retreat included daily instruction, lunch, a farm-to-table dinner in the field, and professional photos of each student's work to use for their own marketing, and all skill levels were welcome. Keep an eye on The Dahlia House for the next announcement. In full transparency, The Dahlia House is a Jill & Co client. I built the site you'll book through.

Best for growers and floral enthusiasts alike who want to practice and learn floral design, and anyone who wants three days in the magical Skagit Valley in peak dahlia season.

The Flowering Farmhouse and the Dahlia Growers Collective

Jennifer Gulizia farms in Hood River, Oregon, and has built the most focused dahlia education ecosystem going. Her Dahlia Design Summit ran September 13 through 18, 2026, picking up where growing knowledge ends and covering the creative and profitable side of your blooms; watch her site for the next round. Year-round, the Dahlia Growers Collective is a membership community with coaching and business strategy specifically for dahlia growers, and her mini course on digging, dividing, and storing dahlias solves the exact task that intimidates most new growers every fall. Her Backyard Bouquet Podcast is free and worth your drive time.

Best for growers who want dahlias to become a real income stream, and anyone who wants a community rather than just a curriculum.

Micro Flower Farm

Galena teaches the thing most flower farming education skips. She shows you how to grow real production volume in a genuinely small space. Her flagship course, Macro Flowers in a Micro Space, runs 77 lessons deep, and the lineup also includes Learn to Grow Dahlias and Bouquet Class 101 for turning what you grow into what sells. If your "farm" is a backyard, a rented plot, or a quarter acre you're determined to maximize, this is education built for your actual constraints instead of someone else's forty acres.

Best for urban and small-space growers, and anyone starting a flower business before the land arrives.

Hamilton House Designs and The Hydrangea Course

Skye Hamilton, known across Instagram as the Hydrangea Queen, distilled years of content into The Hydrangea Course, a step-by-step guide from variety selection through planting, seasonal care, and troubleshooting, for any zone or climate. Hydrangeas are a beloved crop and a notorious one. If they're part of your field plan, or your customers keep asking about them, this is the focused resource. She also teaches in person at garden shows and workshops, and her free blog tutorials are a generous starting point.

Best for growers adding hydrangeas and woody varieties, and farmer-florists whose customers love them.

Blomma Flower Farm Workshops

Not everything worth learning happens on a screen. Mike and Tiffany at Blomma Flower Farm in Gardnerville, Nevada host a small slate of on-farm events each year, hands-on classes and guided tours, and their zinnia breeding work makes the tours genuinely educational rather than just pretty. As of this writing, their