The problem: up to 80% of all flowers sold in the US are imported.

When you step into Trader Joe’s or Fred Meyer, you can find a wide array of colorful, enticing flowers. Unfortunately, most of those flowers travelled thousands of miles to arrive at the store, carrying a massive carbon footprint. In order to package and ship the blooms, plastic waste is created every step of the way. The flowers are usually processed with preservatives, sometimes fumigated, and heavily sprayed with pesticides. This hurts not only the consumer, but the communities around where these flowers are grown.

Our solution: 100% locally grown, radically sustainable flowers.

Our flowers travel just 15 miles from Gresham to the farmers market. We grow varieties you can only find locally, and because they’re harvested fresh, they last longer in the vase.

We never spray pesticides or herbicides on our plants. Instead, we focus on a holistic approach to soil and plant health with the goal that a balanced ecosystem will reduce pest, weed, and disease pressure.

What the heck is no-till?

We believe in leaving the soil better than we found it. Western agriculture—and even organic agriculture—relies on practices that disturb the soil ecology and deplete the topsoil over time. The soil at our farm spent decades suffering under ball-and-burlap nursery production, and as a result is largely ecologically dead.

We use a combination of cover cropping and tarping instead of tilling. By avoiding tillage, we are giving the soil ecosystem a chance to heal and repair itself. We are bolstering that process by adding biological inoculant when we sow our seeds and plant our transplants. Our hope is that over the years, we will see a more diverse and resilient ecosystem in our soil.