Ep. 96: Growing Regenerative Cut Flowers in a Vineyard with Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich of Cluster Flock Farms

Ep. 96: Growing Regenerative Cut Flowers in a Vineyard with Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich of Cluster Flock Farms

From The Backyard Bouquet Podcast: Cut Flower Farming Podcast for Flower Farmers & Backyard Gardeners by Jennifer Gulizia of The Flowering Farmhouse

June 4, 2026 · 1h 12m · Season 3 · Episode 96

About this episode

Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich discusses her innovative approach to growing cut flowers in a vineyard and her journey as a female farmer in a male-dominated industry.

Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich plants peonies, daffodils, and alliums underneath her grape vines, and she has quadrupled the value of every linear foot of her vineyard by doing it. She runs Cluster Flock Farms and Vineyard on twenty-five acres in Husum, Washington, where she grows wine grapes for some of the best winemakers in the Columbia Gorge, raises chickens and ducks and geese, runs flower subscriptions and a flower stand on Highway 141, and books a la carte wedding florals. She is also a queer female farmer who walked into a male-dominated wine industry that did not make room for her, and refused to leave. In this episode: * What it looks like to be a female farmer in a male-dominated industry, and the moment Jocelyn started saying "tell me I can't and I'll show you I can" * The regenerative companion planting strategy that increased the value of every linear foot of her vineyard by four times * The day she stopped calling her farm Blue Elk Farms and renamed it Cluster Flock, and how naming the mess set her free * "Side of the road mode," the lesson Jocelyn's mother taught her about letting go of what you cannot control * What she would tell the version of herself from ten years…

People in this episode

Host: Jennifer Gulizia

Guest: Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich

Topics covered

  • regenerative agriculture
  • female empowerment
  • cut flower farming
  • vineyard management
  • companion planting
  • personal growth

Keywords

  • cut flowers
  • vineyard
  • female farmer
  • regenerative farming
  • companion planting
  • flower subscriptions
  • wedding florals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cluster Flock Farms

Places: Husum, Washington, Columbia Gorge

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