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Host Kylie Epperson interviews Kylie Gray Eilers, owner of Gray Girl Farms and Nursery in Royal City, Washington, a fifth-generation row crop background turned first-generation dahlia tuber and flower root farmer. Gray Eilers describes farming in the irrigated Columbia Basin, taking major losses as a first-generation renter, and pivoting by applying potato-production methods to dahlia tubers. She explains scaling from about one acre and 2,000 tubers to roughly 10 acres, shifting from flower delivery to farm pickup bloom buckets, and making most income by digging, dividing, storing, and shipping tubers nationwide, alongside peonies and flower seeds. The conversation also covers postpartum depression, using daily time outdoors as a key support, setting non-negotiables for work and motherhood, social media boundaries, volunteering in local communities, and her recent purchase of a pot-in-pot tree and shrub nursery run as wholesale with pop-up events.

00:00 Welcome to Boldly Grounded

00:45 Meet Kylie Gray Eilers

02:30 From Row Crops to Dahlias

03:38 First Gen Farming Reality

06:36 Going All In on Growth

09:27 Selling Flowers and Tubers

10:21 Farm Visits and Expansion

13:15 Postpartum and Baby Steps

16:21 Motherhood and Perspective Shift

17:39 Burnout as a Young Mom

18:38 Chasing More vs Contentment

19:44 Social Media Exhaustion

22:41 Breaking the Phone Habit

24:32 Boundaries Create Not Consume

26:08 Volunteering and Local Impact

27:33 Ripple Effects and Civic Duty

29:14 Seasonal Posting and Limits

30:26 Buying a Wholesale Nursery

33:14 Building a Legacy and Wrap Up