Flowers are good for your health!

You read that correctly. There is research supporting that having flowers in your home or space is beneficial to your health.

Flowers provide calming effects, they help reduce stress and they allow you to relax.

Less stress is best!

Flowers may elevate your mood just by seeing them in your surroundings.

Who doesn’t want to be in a good mood?!?

Flowers may increase your concentration, your creativity and your cognitive performance.

Flowers help with your focus!

Flowers may increase the level of compassion you feel.

It’s always nice to be nice.

Flowers may help you heal physically.

There is a reason why people always send flowers to those who are sick or in need of healing.

Why locally grown flowers?

Only 20 percent of the flowers sold in the United States are grown domestically and even less are grown local to you. For many of the reasons you want the food you eat to be grown locally, you want the flowers on your table to be grown locally. Here’s why…

Locally grown flowers are fresh, often pick the day you purchase them. Flowers found at grocery stores or large flower retailers or wholesalers are often harvested weeks prior to you purchasing them.

Fresh is best! They last so much longer.

Locally grown flowers are sustainable with a minimal carbon footprint. If you purchase locally grown flowers they were grown in your community. Flowers from other countries have a massive carbon footprint due to transport and shipping. This has a negative impact on the environment.

We all need to take care of Mother Earth!

Locally grown flowers are often free of pesticides and herbicides. This is so important, especially to support our pollinators (bees and butterflies) and wildlife. When flowers are mass produced and when they arrive in the US, they are sprayed with a variety of chemicals. This is harmful to the people who assist growing them, to the people who touch them and the consumers who have them in their homes.

Gross!

By purchasing locally grown flowers, you are supporting a business in your community. You very well may know the grower and can ask them about their growing practices.

Please ask, we love to share our growing practices.

Locally grown flowers are seasonal. This means there is a window of time when you can expect to have a certain flower given your location. A good comparison is to seasonal food which is much fresher and tastes so much better than the same food off season (I’m thinking of a gorgeous August heirloom tomato!) Seasonal flowers are fresher and so much more beautiful, but the downside is they are not available all of the time. Many seasonal flowers, such as dahlias and garden roses, can‘t tolerate shipping and transport which is why you only see them for a short time, when they are in season.

While I wish we could have dahlias all year long, seasonal flowers are extra special.