Sustainable Florist in New York
We love and respect Mother Nature and want to take care of her and everything living on this Earth, so we’re serious about using environmentally-friendly practices and products. What if we became educated consumers? What if we started to support farmers in our area or look for those near us growing flowers by safe means? What if we instead purchased only locally grown flowers? Support local farmers instead of filling your home with chemical laden flowers. Buy something that has been grown with care. If you have not stopped to consider these issues the last time you purchased flowers, please do! As a sustainable florist in New York, we want to make our customers educated on what is going on behind the scenes.
Sustainable Florist in New York – As florists, we love nature, but the widespread use of floral foam, excessive packaging and flying out-of-season blooms across the world are just some of the problems we must tackle.
Our Promise To You:
We will not be using any:
- plastic card holders (why? just why?)
- plastic wraps + cellophane (unnecessary one-use material that immediately gets thrown out)
- balloons (littering our oceans and choking sea creatures)
- toxic sprays (think glitter, spray paints)
- floral foams (made from hazardous chemicals: phenol + formaldehyde, contributing to the world’s microplastic pollution)
- synthetic pesticides, herbicides + insecticides (carcinogens that pollute waterways and seeps into drinking water)
- any other plastic thingamabobs that get thrown in the trash after looking at them
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As a sustainable florist, we want to be sure that the items that come with your floral arrangements can be used again, are sustainable, or biodegradable.
We also compost to give back to our soil!
We only source flowers from USA growers.
Many years ago, almost all of the cut flowers sold in the United States were grown domestically. Now roughly 80% of our flowers are imports, mostly coming from Latin America. We’ve lost hundreds of family farms and continue to lose American farms due to a number of factors. Flowers being flown in from Latin America are not tested for illegal pesticide residue. These flowers are coated in high levels of illegal chemicals. Also, the workers at these foreign factories suffer from headaches, nausea, miscarriages, and neurological problems; all related to exposure to chemicals, fungicides and pesticides. These chemicals not only hurt humans and animals, but destroy streams and waterways.
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