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January 01 2022
2022 LoCoFlo BookClub
Tags: BookClub, At LoCoFlo, Nerdy AFIt looks like year nine of our nerdy bookclub will at least start online. Email Ellen (ellen@locoflo.com) for a link if you want to dial in. Meeting online isn't all bad. One author has already asked about joining in! (Hint: It's not Octavia Butler. She will only show up in person.)
Meetings are Monday nights at 7:00PM (dates below). We’re always looking for more flower friends to join the fun!
- Feb 28 2022 The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey by Derick Lugo
- Apr 25 2022 (new date) Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
- Jun 20 2022 Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone
- Aug 22 2022 The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris
- Oct 17 2022 My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid
- Dec 5 2022 Anthill by E. O. Wilson
December 14 2020
2021 LoCoFlo BookClub
Tags: Nerdy AF, At LoCoFlo, BookClubThe ocho, nerds!
Our book club is super casual - just drop in. Meetings are Monday nights at 7:00PM (dates below). The over/under on resuming the LoCoFlo BookClub in person is sitting on June 21. So, we'll be online for at least the first half of the year. Email Ellen (ellen@locoflo.com) for the link. We will let you know when the book club will be back IRL at the studio We’re always looking for more flower friends to join the fun!
- Feb 22 2021 Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White
- Apr 19 2021 H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Jun 28 2021 (new date) All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Aug 22 2021 Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
- Oct 18 2021 Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
- Dec 13 2021 Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
December 16 2019
2020 LoCoFlo BookClub
Tags: BookClub, At LoCoFlo, Nerdy AFLucky number 7! LoCoFlo BookClub 2020 is our seventh year. We're so old and nerdy we have returning authors: Mary Oliver and Robin Wall Kimmerer (what!). The line up is a mix of fiction, non-fiction and essays about trees, swamps, moss, parks, streams and race. We're stepping it up! No Darwin. No Mark Cameron picks. Best year yet!
The book club is super casual - just drop in. Meetings are Monday nights (dates below) at 7:00PM at our studio. Bring drinks and snacks. We’re always looking for more flower friends to join the fun!
- Feb 24 2020 The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Apr 27 2020 Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
- Jun 22 2020 Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney
- Aug 24 2020 Genius of Place by Justin Martin
- Oct 26 2020 Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Dec 14 2020 Upstream by Mary Oliver
December 04 2019
Flower Club: Flower Trivia
Tags: Flower Club, Nerdy AFNever not fun! Flower Club crushed another event with Flower Trivia Night! There were 106 questions in 10 categories including official flowers, flower tv, literate flowers, naked ladies, cellulose celluloid, and more. There were treats from Bramble. There was even Joe Kane!
We had about 30 participants on six teams. Four of the teams had at least one flower farmer. One team (Don't Get Your Pansies in a Bunch) had multiple florists but no farmer. Our team of neighbors (Whistle Bloomers) with no floral professionals had a respectable score but placed where you would expect.
Smarty-pants first place team, Hairy Balls Bouquet, was comprised of our regular JHU crew (JKups, Allison, and Sam), LoCoFlo all stars (Heather and Jen), and flower farmer ringer Maya. They edged out a devastated all-Butterbee team for the victory.
Final Standings:
| Place | Team | Score* |
| 1 | Hairy Balls Bouquet | 87 |
| 2 | Better Bees | 85 |
| 3 | Don't Get Your Pansies in a Bunch | 81 |
| 4 | Naked Ladies | 79 |
| 4 | Savage Garden | 79 |
| 6 | Whistle Bloomers | 68 |
*one point per correct answer
Missed the event? All 106 questions are on the blog. Post your score in the blog comments. Make a go of it!
Oh, right. Also, what's up with all the naked ladies?
Tweet CommentsDecember 03 2019
Play Flower Trivia!
Tags: Flower Club, Nerdy AF, GamesIf you missed Flower Trivia Night, fear not, you can play right here on the blog! There are 106 questions in 10 categories. Post your score in the comments (1 point per correct answer). Ready go!
Tweet CommentsJuly 28 2019
Flower Club
Tags: At LoCoFlo, Nerdy AF, Flower ClubThe first rule of Flower Club is: You MUST talk about Flower Club.
But, before you talk about Flower Club, you have to know all about Flower Club.
Former Bloom Battlers Jen and Meredith were gabbing at Open Studio one Spring Wednesday night. They missed the competition of Bloom Battle and wanted a new challenge.
Meredith: "What if LoCoFlo had a 'Chopped' style competition, where we wouldn't know what the flowers were and we would need to include unusual elements in the design!"
Jen: "Ooh, that would be fun. Or like 'Nailed It', where we would try to arrange a complex floral installation."
Meredith: "Yeah, that would be fun!"
Jen: "Yeah!"
Meredith: "Yeah!
Ellen then put her MBA training to use and recognized the customer need.
Ellen (internal monologue): "I bet I could get this floral shop cookin' with a new LoCoFlo event: Flower Club! It would be a fun floral activity night for our flower MVPs and new friends. Wow, I'm really good."
Ellen workshopped the idea with some other Bloom Battlers, Heather and Liz, and, boom, the ideas kept flowing: floral bingo, large group project, speed dating flower edition, flower trivia night... The possibilities, and flower fun, are endless.
If you love flowers you're already a member of the club. Some meetings will be drop-in, some will require registration. All will be awesome. Look for the schedule on our Classes and Events page, social media and our email.
Join Flower Club. You probably won't get punched in the face.
Tweet CommentsDecember 27 2018
2019 LoCoFlo BookClub
Tags: BookClub, Nerdy AFThe LoCoFlo Book Club is getting extra nerdy in 2019 with a Darwin add-on. As always, the book club is super casual - just drop in. Meetings take place on Monday nights (dates below) at 7pm at our studio You can see more info on our Book Club facebook page. We’re always looking for more folks to join in the fun!
- February 25 2019 Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver
- April 22 2019 American Eden, Victoria Johnson
- June 24 2019 The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben and Mike Grady
- August 19 2019 The Reason for Flowers, Stephen Buchmann and Jonathan Yen
- October 21 2019 A Beautiful Question, Frank Wilczek
- December 16 2019 Darwin Comes to Town Menno Schilthuizen and Chris Nayak
Since Darwin has been a frequent subject in many of the books we've read over the past six years, we are finally going to tackle On the Origin of Species. This is an optional add-on to the scheduled readings. At the end of every meeting we'll discuss a few chapters of Darwin with the goal of finishing in December of 2019.
Our homie Charlie
Darwin add-on schedule (seriously):
- February 25 2019 Intro and Chapters 1 and 2
- April 22 2019 Chapters 3 and 4
- June 24 2019 Chapters 5, 6 and 7
- August 19 2019 Chapters 8 and 9
- October 21 2019 Chapters 10, 11, 12
- December 16 2019 Chapters 13 and 14
November 17 2017
2018 LoCoFlo BookClub
Tags: BookClub, Nerdy AF2018 will mark the 5th year of the LoCoFlo Book Club! We are a drop in book club that reads books that loosely focus on the natural world. We have read fiction, non-fiction and poetry in past years. Our meetings take place on Monday nights (dates below) at 7pm at our studio in Charles Village (3100 Brentwood Ave Baltimore 21218). All meetings are drop-in so no need to RSVP. You can see more info on our Book Club facebook page. We’re always looking for more folks to join in the fun!
- February 5 2018 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh
- April 9 2018 The Nature Fix Florence Williams
- June 18 2018 A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir Donald Worster
- August 20 2018 The Orchid Thief Susan Orlean
- October 29 2018 The Book that Changed America Randall Fuller
- December 10 2018 The Unsettlers Mark Sundeen
Mark your calendars and start reading!
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CommentsFebruary 01 2017
2017 LoCoFlo BookClub
Tags: BookClub, Nerdy AF“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Oscar Wilde
Local Color Flowers hosts a super fun, totally dorky Book Club! All are welcome! The meeting is drop-in so no need to RSVP…just read and come on by. All meetings are held at our studio located at 3100 Brentwood Ave. Baltimore MD 21218 and take place from 7pm - 9pm.
Here is the 2017 list of books to read and dates for the meetings:
- February 6, 2017 Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry
- April 10, 2017 Tulipmania, Mike Dash
- June 19, 2017 Walden, Henry David Thoreau
- August 21 2017 Paradise Lot, Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates
- October 23 2017 Urban Forests, Jill Jonnes
- December 11 2017 Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Van
Learn more on our Bookclub Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/locoflobookclub
Tweet CommentsNovember 19 2016
Getting Smart and Sciencey at the Flo
Tags: Farmers, Nerdy AFSpent some time this week with amazing Chris Wien, Emeritus Faculty member at Cornell who continues to do valuable cut flower research in his retirement. Flowers growers in our region cheered a few years ago when this giant in the cut flower world decided to make Annapolis his new home after leaving Ithaca. 
This week, the designers and I got to contribute our experience with lisianthus to be included in his research on spacing, stem production and bloom time. We also got to here all about the creation of the black pear pepper and it’s journey to market beginning at the USDA research lab in Beltsville.
We’re so grateful to be part of this weird, wonderful flower growing community!
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