The Power of Local Flowers
Why Buying Local Matters
Purchasing flowers from Gallatin Valley flower farms keeps money in the local economy and helps farmers grow their businesses and pay employees a living wage.
The more the local flower industry grows, the more resilient it becomes!
Prioritizing flowers grown within Montana greatly reduces the transportation footprint of your floral product:
Locally grown flowers are treated with significantly fewer chemicals than imported blooms.
Local farms help to preserve farmland and green spaces across the country.
Flower farmers using regenerative practices are able to capture more carbon in their soil, nurture greater biodiversity, and ultimately eliminate their use of chemicals.
Flowers cut and sold in local markets are able to be harvested at more ideal growing stages, experience less turnaround from field to vase, and undergo less stress during the transportation process.
Sourcing from local farms grants you access to unique, delicate, and heirloom floral varieties that are less accessible through international wholesalers.
Our mission is to create a farm that is sustainable for the land, the farmers, the community, and all carbon based life forms. We believe in learning from one another and respecting each other for our knowledge and experiences. In the same way that we strive to bring the highest quality plants to our customers, we strive to embody that quality in our interactions with the land, the other beings it supports, each other, and our work.
Impacts Of Imported Flowers
The supply chain issues that were made extra apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with increasingly extreme weather patterns due to climate change, have highlighted the need for more resilient local markets.
Pesticides, cold storage, and transportation of imported flowers all contribute to the global climate change crisis.
