{"id":110292,"date":"2023-06-21T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=110292"},"modified":"2024-06-20T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:32:46","slug":"episode-56-mimo-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/episode-56-mimo-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 56: Mimo Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobcat.com\/na\/en\/buying-tools\/special-offers?_ref=b23natpodhf6ctb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107407 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Bobcat_AD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Bobcat_AD-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/NgWEjBfg-Bobcat_AD-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Bobcat_AD.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110293\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/MD-banner.jpg\" alt=\"Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good Mimo Davis\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/MD-banner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/E6Dm0EeI-MD-banner-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/MD-banner.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/27158448\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">St. Louis flower farmer Mimo Davis talks about growing flowers year-round, Black flower farmers, her work as vice president of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers and more!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Listen to this episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good podcast<\/a> to hear about Mimo Davis\u2019 journey from being a social worker for homeless adolescent males in New York City to becoming a flower farmer in rural Missouri in just eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mimo talks about what it\u2019s like as an African American to farm flowers in rural Missouri and the dearth of Black flower farmers in the state. Hear about the transition Mimo made into the current iteration of her farming dream, Urban Buds City Grown Flowers, which she operates with Miranda Duschack, and learn everything about the farm, including the 1-acre property\u2019s history as a flower farm since the 1800s\u2014plus learn how Mimo manages to grow flowers year-round.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Also get to know the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers and how you can tap into the education and resources they offer to farmers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citygrownflowers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urban Buds City Grown Flowers website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/urbanbuds\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urban Buds City Grown Flowers on Instagram\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascfg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascfg.org\/conference23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASCFG Conference<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOBBY FARMS PRESENTS: GROWING GOOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5349,"featured_media":96389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10465],"tags":[11511,11047,11510,10943],"class_list":["post-110292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-black-farmers","tag-hobby-farms-presents-growing-good","tag-mimo-davism-flower-farming","tag-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Episode 56: Mimo Davis - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good with Mimo Davis! 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