Episode 773: The Marigold Gardens with Caitlin Mathes, the American Flowers Week Botanical Couture Series, Part One
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Debra Prinzing interviews Caitlin Mathes about her marigold farm and participation in American Flowers Week's Botanical Couture series.
https://youtu.be/qLDRA7aDbe0?si=ErpsCddUPW3DRei2 In the runup to our American Flowers Week’s annual Botanical Couture collection, I’m welcoming Caitlin Mathes to the Slow Flowers Podcast. A longtime Slow Flowers Member based in New York’s Finger Lakes Region, Caitlin has been cultivating the Tagetes species, also known as the marigold, since 2019. Her passion led to establishing The Marigold Gardens as a singular flower farm, specializing in more than 40 marigold varieties. When planning this year’s American Flowers Week floral fashions, we asked Caitlin if she would like to create a marigold garment – and she joined in the fun, growing, designing, fabricating, and modeling her playful look. Join me as we learn more about Caitlin’s floral enterprise, her love affair with marigolds, and her charming, Medieval-inspired garment fashioned with a multitude of colorful and uniquely-formed varieties. You, too, will fall in love with marigolds because Caitlin’s passion is contagious! Some of Caitlin Mathes' beautiful marigold varieties (left) and the flower farmer, portrayed wearing a marigold crown (right) American Flowers Week was founded by Slow Flowers in 2015 as the original…
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