2023 Speaker Profile: TRACY YANG

Meet Tracy Yang, co-founder of JARN Co. Farm in Monroe, Washington. Tracy will present at the Slow Flowers Summit on Day Two (Tuesday, June 27, 2023) during the Flower Farming Panel. Her talk, MAKING THE LEAP INTO FLOWER FARMING, will include an illustrated lecture and design demonstration, followed by a Q&A.

For over 10 years, Tracy Yang was part of the health, fitness, and dance world but 2020 introduced a new move to the personal trainer, massage therapist, and hip-hop dancer: the COVID-pivot. “I went from traveling the country and doing all sorts of fun stuff to being in my room wondering how I was going to survive,” says Tracy, who’s based in Everett, Washington. The final spin from the fitness world to flower farm would take a few more steps though.

Farming is in Tracy’s family — her mother was a vegetable farmer and her sister owns a flower farm in Carnation, Washington — and since Tracy was at loose ends, they encouraged her to join the family trade. No, was the quick answer, followed by maybe just for a while after more prodding. “It gave me something to do,�