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San Diego County Farmers See Big Drop In Flower Sales
Above: Joe Zenovic of San Diego Organic Farms in Ramona stands next to a greenhouse where the farm propagates plants from seed, April 22, 2020. San Diego County farmers who grow cut flowers and ornamental plants have seen their sales decline, while other farmers who...
How the Flower Industry Is Evolving In Response to This Pandemic
The images of bouquets of tulips and chrysanthemums being destroyed at the Dutch flower auction last month were an arrow through many a flower-lover’s heart. “You can’t order [flowers] to stop growing,” Michel van Schie, a spokesman for the...
Will Covid-19 mean feast or famine for Alaska’s peony growers?
Kenneth John Gill aka Gillfoto By John Creed No one knows whether Alaska’s flourishing peony industry might keep booming or go bust this year. “Who knows how long this is going to last?” asks Pat Holloway, University of Alaska Fairbanks horticulture professor emerita,...
Local flower farmers struggling to survive coronavirus shutdown
Credit: Courtesy of See Lee A bouquet from See Lee Farm Farmers markets are slowly returning, but in a limited way. Only food farmers and producers will be selling. Flower farmers, will not. Yet, they’re one of the hardest hit businesses by the coronavirus shutdown....Latest News
