Speaking Engagements
I have had the pleasure of speaking to garden clubs over the past few years and enjoyed it thoroughly. However, I homeschool my three children classically and, when I’m not teaching, I’m in the garden or arranging for daily deliveries. Therefore, my schedule can be hard to coordinate around. If given enough advance notice, though, I’ll gladly arrange my schedule to be available. It’s always a joy to talk gardening with a group of people who feel as passionate about it as I do! Keep reading for bio and contact information.
Meredith Bishop is a native of Memphis and has lived in Nashville for 22 years. From childhood on, she has observed herself to be motivated by beauty in all its forms- art, music, literature and especially the natural world. In 2016, a move into a historic Nashville home on a larger property prompted a swap from strictly vegetable gardening to heirloom flowers started from seed, and the obsession, and her garden’s size, has grown ever since.
Meredith now operates an organic, cut-flower business called Bloom & Bounty from her 1 acre property on Woodmont Boulevard in Nashville, where she sells her sustainably-grown blooms to local florists as well as the public, leads educational workshops on indoor seed-sowing, permaculture, & sustainable gardening, educates local flower enthusiasts on how to grow their own cut-flower gardens, & teaches floral arranging.
She also runs a design studio where she arranges for local events & delivery, as well as operating an online Home & Garden gift shop featuring unique- and often antique- pieces that she has collected to bring beauty into the every day. Her gift shop can be accessed through her website BloomandBounty.com - and ships nationwide. You can also find her favorite seeds, beautifully packaged in ready-to-gift heirloom garden collections for spring and summer blooms, online.
Meredith has found meaning and purpose in working with the soil, and beyond the practical how-to’s of growing heirloom flowers, she is passionate about sharing what she has learned about how the soil and our human souls are interconnected.
“Meredith was the best speaker we had last year. She provided an inspirational and professional power point that demonstrated the wide range of beautiful flowers she grows from seed in her breathtaking, multi-season urban flower farm. Meredith even led a seed propagation workshop last spring where she taught us how to use the soil blocking method to get a jump start on our seedlings - all in support of a local park’s new pollinator garden.”
