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Bloom Collective offers fresh bouquets locally grown in Southold
Vanessa Rebentisch at the Bloom Collective flower farm in Southold. (Credit: Erika Peters) Three women and two acres of farmland are the driving force behind the locally grown flowers at Bloom Collective North Fork, located at the Agricultural Center at Charnews Farm...
Bozeman’s sweet pea flower champion revs up for another year
Bradley Warren Wake Up Montana BOZEMAN- A champion sweet pea flower grower shared some of her secrets in the days leading up to the annual competition. Linda Lennon is a dedicated sweet pea grower, and starts some seeds as soon as December to get a jump-start on the...
Smurfit Kappa develops e-commerce packaging solution for flower brand
Smurfit Kappa developed the new packaging concept to protect the most delicate blooms. Credit: Smurfit Kappa. Smurfit Kappa has developed a new e-commerce packaging solution for Enjoy Flowers, a brand of Colombian flower grower Jardines de Los Andes. Enjoy Flowers...
Sunflowers in October? Breeders are racing to develop plants that flower again and again.
Robert “Buddy” Lee has been a grower of wholesale plants and a registered nurse over the years, but his one abiding preoccupation has been his need to find a spring-flowering azalea that blooms through summer and fall. More than 40 years ago, from his fields in...
Trader Joe’s Marks Progress in Fresh Packaging Reduction
Retailers Trader Joe’s, which announced earlier this year that it would eliminate more than 1 million pounds of plastic from its stores in 2019, is on track to better that goal by an additional 3 million pounds. In its podcast last week, the Monrovia, Calif.-based...Latest News
