The Cotton Bunch with Jamie Rother & Caroline Azria
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Jamie Rother and Caroline Azria share their journey from corporate careers to running a successful flower farm in Queensland.
Dish the Dirt — Show Notes The Cotton Bunch with Jamie Rother & Caroline Azria What happens when a third-generation cotton farmer and a Paris-born UX designer meet at Disney World, fall in love, and end up growing flowers on the Darling Downs? You get The Cotton Bunch — and one of the most unexpected stories in Australian flower farming. Jamie Rother and Caroline Azria run The Cotton Bunch across two properties near Toowoomba, Queensland. Their journey started as a 3am Sydney Flower Market experiment, survived a pandemic, weathered floods, frosts and a burnt-down farm — and became one of the most exciting growing operations in Southeast Queensland. In this episode we cover their backstory, the leap from corporate life to full-time farming, the radical mindset shift from yield to aesthetic, reviving a fire-devastated wildflower farm in Hampton, and what it actually takes to hit your targets when the black soil turns to sinking sand. Plus their proudest moment, the harvest that brought the whole team to their knees, and what it means to build something like this with the person you love. In this episode: Trading Sydney careers for a cotton farm during COVID From 3am flower…
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