The Floret Farm Journal: October 2025

I’m thrilled to share that the latest episode of The Floret Farm Journal is now available to watch! This month on the farm is always a scramble—the final surge to collect every ripe seedpod, capture as much beauty and information as we can possibly manage, and scrape together the very last bits of magic before frost arrives.

October does not linger, and yet it holds the most unknowns. With one cold night, the growing season will be over. But as we race to bring in the harvest, I am reminded that the end of one season is always the beginning of another.

With each passing storm, the flowers become more bruised and battered, but just as the garden is fading, hundreds of crabapple trees are coming into their prime all over the farm. While these magical trees are beautiful in every season, October is their high point. Their ripe fruit hangs on every branch, like ornaments in all the fall colors. I am obsessed with these trees, and in this episode, I finally get to share why.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Opening
08:07 A Year in Flowers Bouquet Project
10:53 The Creative Practice
12:11 Seed Harvest
14:27 Cover Crops
15:54 Floret’s Crabapple Collection
24:06 Albert Etter
30:38 Closing

You can find helpful resources and additional details about what’s featured in this month’s episode in the blog post linked below.

THE FLORET FARM JOURNAL: OCTOBER 2025: https://www.floretflowers.com/the-flo...

CREDITS:

Albert Etter Footage courtesy of California Nursery Company, Roeding Collection / Math Science Nucleus.

Additional photograph of Albert Etter courtesy of the Greenmantle Nursery Co.

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