Flower Show Schedule

Maggie Taylor is a first generation farmer growing cut flowers for commercial production near Champaign, IL. She has been a lifetime gardener and a professional grower for over a decade. Delight Flower Farm is a robust five acre farm with three hoops houses, a variety of revenue channels and a 6+ person farm crew. Maggie is passionate about community connection, impact, and always doing better.

Cassie Plummer is the owner of Jig-Bee Flower Farm, where she grows beautiful, unique blooms that bring joy, color, and inspiration to her community. With a deep commitment to sustainable farming practices, Cassie is passionate about offering high-quality flowers and seeds while building a supportive and encouraging flower-growing community for customers at every stage of their journey. 

After eight years of urban intensive flower farming and floral design in Philadelphia, Cassie relocated to northeastern Vermont to be closer to family and to cultivate a simpler, quieter life rooted in the land. Today, Jig-Bee Flower Farm (Vermont edition) specializes in flower seed production and provides fresh seasonal flowers to local customers as well as floral designers across New England and New York.

Vivian Larson is the owner of Everyday Flowers in Stanwood, Washington, and a lifelong flower farmer raised with a deep respect for building healthy soil and caring for the land. She began growing and selling bouquets in 1990 and quickly developed a devoted customer following, proving, as she says, that “good flowers sell themselves.” Vivian is a member of the Seattle Wholesale Growers Market, a contributing author of Floral Standards: A Practical Guide for Harvesting and Delivering Professional Quality Products, and is featured in Debra Prinzing’s The Flower Farmers. With decades of experience growing flowers that thrive on her farm and perform beautifully in the vase, Vivian remains, first and foremost, a grower at heart.

Eugene Kenyon and Rosie Cooper-Vert are the driving forces behind River’s Dahlias, a premier 4-acre farm dedicated to the art and science of dahlia cultivation. Since founding the farm in 2009, Eugene has grown nearly 50,000 seedlings and earned two gold medals for his work in hybridizing new varieties. As the Farm Manager, Rosie oversees the daily operations of their 11,000 plants and leads her own specialized seedling program focused on open-center and disc dahlias.

Together, they bring a wealth of technical expertise to the field as seasoned judges and educators. Eugene has logged and taught over 100 hours of judging schools, while Rosie serves as a Candidate judge and a dedicated mentor to the dahlia-growing community. Their partnership combines decades of experience with a passion for innovation, ensuring that every bloom from River’s Dahlias is grown with expert precision and a deep respect for the craft.

Father and Daughter, Steve Kuiper and Cammi Waggoner are members of the Elkhart Dahlia Society and longtime volunteers at the Bonneyville Mill Trial Garden in Indiana.