SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability is one of the most important aspects of our farm. It affects every part of our business, from farming to design.

FARMING

These are some of the ways we are striving towards sustainability in our farming practices:

Never use harmful pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides

Instead:

Use weed barrier to reduce weeds
Provide ideal nutrition to plants to encourage good plant health, enabling them to fight off pests & pathogens themselves
Use beneficial insects to fight pests
Spray molasses on dahlias to raise BRIX

Use drip irrigation to water plants

Reduces water use compared with other irrigation forms because the water goes straight to the roots and evaporation is minimized

Compost all green waste

This keeps green waste out of landfills, which contributes to methane production

Improve soil quality by adding organic material in the form of compost from our county supply

Re-using flower netting & other supplies

Sourcing floral buckets from our community which were otherwise destined for the landfill

considering sustainability
in sales

Craft our designs with flowers & greens grown exclusively on our farm

Source any additional flowers & greens needed from like-minded farms and businesses in the US, concentrating on Midwest growers first
This means that carbon emissions are kept to a minimum, as traditionally sourced flowers are largely flown into the US from South America, Africa, & Australia. They are then fumigated with chemicals to ensure that pests and pathogens from foreign countries are not entering the US.

Avoid single-use plastics

Use recyclable/compostable bouquet sleeves stamped with biodegradable ink tied with compostable twine

We want to be fully transparent in our pursuit of sustainability.
Here are some of the things we are working on:

Integrating low-till farming practices

Implementing cover crops