Farflung Flowers
Farmer(s): Morgan Bame
Location: Kingsville, MO
Website/Social Media: Facebook, Instagram
Preferred Method of Contact: morganbame829@gmail.com
Apprentice Type: Explore Farming
Lodging: Lodging not available
FarFlung Flowers is a small, family-run farm growing specialty cut flowers for wholesale and the Lee’s Summit Wednesday Farmer’s Market. Annual flowers are grown on a 1⁄4 acre size area. We are also preparing an acre-sized area for perennial flower crops as we are recipients of the Missouri CRCL ClimateSmart Fieldscapes grant (2025). We are a rapidly growing small farm and business. If you want to jump in and learn right alongside us, please reach out!
Flowers are delivered once a week to florists in the Lee’s Summit/KC area. Bouquets are sold weekly at the Wednesday farmer’s market. We do not work on Saturdays, so you won’t either!
Half of our growing space utilizes Sunbelt weed barrier, and the other half is open soil. We manage weeds by intensively spacing our flowers and diligent daily weeding in early spring. Our biggest crops for 2026 will be snapdragons, lisianthus, and specialty zinnias. In August, we will begin planting out our Fieldscape with woody floral shrubs and perennials. This will be a busy time of flipping the annual garden and preparing it for fall planting and getting hundreds of perennial plants in the ground and irrigation installed.
I am interested in an apprentice who would like to learn flower farming from seed starting, to transplant, to harvest and beyond. Duties would include greenhouse care, transplanting, fertilizing, harvesting and learning to arrange bouquets. Field maintenance looks like weeding, netting flowers, and fertilization. Harvesting skills include learning the proper harvest stage and processing. We need someone who will stick it out with us inJuly and August when half of the garden is being “flipped” and planted for fall blooms.
Availability is flexible, we are open to full season help (March-October) or shorter stints of help. but generally being able to work earlier in the day or in the evenings to be able to avoid heat is preferred. An ideal apprentice would be someone interested in creating a woman owned small farm. We are very much a “family” farm; the farm is located at our home, and small children will be present during the workday. Someone who is very comfortable and friendly with children is a must. We are very interested in someone who is willing to come to the Wednesday Lee’s Summit Market with us and assist with the market.
The journey to creating a successful small farm is a winding one. I would love an apprentice who is interested in learning the business side of running a flower farm. I will be happy to explain the administrative side of what we do as far as marketing, website building, and best communication practices for florists. We are an open book and happy to share.
Do you want to learn the seasonality of a small flower farm? Become a master at bed management and early weeding? Speedy transplanting with cool equipment like the “PaperPot Transplater”? Meet our awesome farmers’ market customers? Harvest buckets of blooms and make bouquets? Walk away with a detailed outline of “A year in flower farming”? Please reach out, we’d love to have you!
