Literary Gardener host Rhonda Nowak talks with Rogue Valley flower farmer Joan Thorndike. For the past 30 years, Joan has provided the community with locally and organically grown flowers for homes, businesses, weddings, and events.

In 2012, with the publication of The 50 Mile Bouquet, readers met Joan Thorndike, a gifted flower-farmer based in Oregon's agriculturally rich Rogue Valley. I featured her in a chapter called "Grower Wisdom," and introduced Le Mera Gardens, one of the state's first certified organic flower farms.

Joan Thorndike is changing how we buy cut flowers one locally grown bouquet at a time. Literary Gardener host Rhonda Nowak talks with Rogue Valley flower farmer Joan Thorndike. For the past 30 years, Joan has provided the community with locally and organically grown flowers for homes, businesses, weddings, and events.

While we at Le Mera Gardens and Fry Family Farm think of ourselves as long time local farmers, our work in Southern Oregon ...