How much can you make flower farming?

How much can you actually make flower farming? Well...This is a question I've gotten a lot over the last four years, so I wanted to give you the information and straight numbers for how much we made on our flower farm in year 3. While these are baseline numbers, please bear in mind that they can fluctuate a lot up or down depending on your practices, your income streams, your input costs and more!

There is a lot of content floating around out there about how flower farming is profitable--and it ::can:: be more profitable on a small scale than, say, commodity farming of wheat/soybeans/corn, for example. But it is also VERY labor intensive! Planting seeds by hand, harvesting by hand, curated bouquet making--it is a time consuming business. So if you are thinking you can do flower farming as a "side hustle," well--you definitely can! But you will need to scale up slowly and adjust your expectations of how much it will cost, how much money you will make, and how much time you will need to invest.

While we didn't get into the nitty gritty of what exactly makes more money (and what costs more money!) or every single expense by line item, we hope this helps give a general idea! We have more about the breakdowns below:

PLANTS: Seeds, bulbs, corms, tubers, perennials, shrubs, cover crops
INFRASTRUCTURE: Tunnels, irrigation, frost fabric, hail net, portapotty rental, hoops, netting, pathways, tractor, cooler, barn maintenance
MATERIALS: tractor, tools (shovels, broadforks, clippers), buckets, bouquet wraps, rubber bands, tables, chairs, vases, cards, paper
SOIL/AMENDMENTS: seed starting soil, alfalfa pellets, sheep maintenance (we put sheep in here because we use their output as manure!)
BUSINESS/EDUCATION: website, insurance, associations/memberships, marketing

So, what do you think? Would you do this for $10/hour?