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US (OK): Second growing season helps Blanchard farm

Ali Igo has been dragging a 300-foot hose across her very small farm for most of the summer, then past Labor Day.

"You have to deal with the wind and heat," she says. "It's a lot of work. That's for sure."

Her crop is cut flowers that she brings to special events and farmer's markets. Zinnias, marigolds, amaranth, and even black-eyed Susans.

"I started just giving them to friends and family," she recalls. "Then people kept telling me they liked them."

They are the 'cut and come again' flowers she can keep going through what can often be a brutal, Oklahoma summer.

Read more at KFOR.

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