The Stemwise blog

Crop planning, CSA & weddings — the business side of flower farming

Practical, grower-to-grower guides on planning what you grow against what you sell.

Comparison

Best Software for Flower Farmers (2026)

An honest comparison — Tend, Farmbrite, Curate, Details & Stemwise — by what each actually does for a farm that both grows and sells.

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Alternative

A Tend Alternative for Farmer-Florists

Tend plans your beds and harvest — but if you also sell weddings, CSA & wholesale, here's the tool that reconciles what you'll cut against what you've promised.

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Alternative

A Curate Alternative for Grower-Florists

Curate is great if you buy every stem. If you grow your own, here's the tool that adds the missing half — what your field covers vs. what to buy in.

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Alternative

A Details Flowers Alternative for Grower-Florists

Details Flowers prices every recipe against wholesale. If you grow some of what you arrange, here's the tool that adds what your own field will cut vs. what to buy in.

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Alternative

A Farmbrite Alternative for Flower Farmers

Farmbrite runs a whole diversified farm. If flowers are your business, here's the tool that adds the bloom-vs-promises reconcile a general farm system doesn't do.

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Alternative

Stemwise vs Spreadsheets

Every farmer-florist starts on a bloom tab + an orders tab. Here's the honest point where the Sunday-night manual reconcile stops scaling — and what changes when it's automatic.

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Crop planning

What to Plant for a Fall Wedding

A grower's sowing guide — the autumn palette, what blooms in September–October, and how to back-plan your beds from the wedding date.

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Wedding planning

How Many Flowers Do You Need for a Wedding?

A florist's stem-count guide — bouquets, bouts, centerpieces and the arch — with a worked 120-guest example and a free calculator.

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Selling flowers

How to Price a Flower CSA

A real costing method for bouquet subscriptions: cost per stem → bouquet cost → margin → season price, with a pricing-tier table.

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Crop planning

The Sunday-Night Stem Math

How flower farmers stop overcommitting their blooms — a simple weekly reconcile that hands you a buy-in list and a market list.

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Free Wedding Flower Calculator → Free CSA Pricing Calculator →