09/04/2024
We have lots of beautiful products heading to the auction this week! Including Zinnias, Sunflowers and Chrysanthemums (look at these cute little Doria!)
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We have lots of beautiful products heading to the auction this week! Including Zinnias, Sunflowers and Chrysanthemums (look at these cute little Doria!)
We hope everyone has a safe and happy Labour Day!
What a beautiful weekend to have an extra day off to relax and enjoy time with friends and family. A huge thank you to our entire team here at Quik's Farm - you all play a part in keeping our farm up and running and we're so grateful for all your hard work!
Around the Farm Friday. It’s getting pretty clear around here that Fall is just around the corner. We know our flowers will enjoy soaking in the Summer sunshine while it lasts and we hope you enjoy it too! Happy long weekend everyone!
Our Asiatic Lilies are one of the items heading to the Auction this week. They are a sea of green out in our fields right now, but once they land in a bouquet in someone’s home or office, they’ll open to a beautiful vibrant colour!
Let’s check out what’s growing around Quik’s! Fall colours are slowly starting to fill our bays as the end of summer gets closer. We’re also nearing the end of the season for our Carthamus, Zinnias, and Snapdragons, but we’re excited for the new varieties coming our way. The change of seasons is always big around here and we’ll be sure to show you the new colour palettes as the bloom!
We’re so excited to be sending some of our new products to the auction this week! We grew several new varieties of Sunflowers as part of our trial program and WOW, are they ever stunning! (Can you guess which variety is called “Teddy Bear Sunflower”? 🌻 🐻 We’re also sending some Zinnias and Kalanchoe (both of which were trials this year) and some of our favourite standbys like Statice, Lilies and various Chrysanthemums.
What do you think about our trials? Are the new Sunflowers, Zinnias and Kalanchoe worth growing again?! 🤞
Our Employee Spotlight this month is our Team Lead of Mother Plants- Preeti Sandhu. Preeti has been working with us for 4 years now and she’s a crucial part of our team! She takes care of our mother plants, which are essential to our greenhouse. Thanks for all that you do Preeti!
We’re sending Kalanchoe to the auction this week! It’s our very first time growing these little beauties and we’re interested to hear your thoughts! Our fourth colour (orange) is coming soon, but for now we have white, pink and red. If you miss them this time around, don’t worry- we’ll have them available for the next couple of weeks.
As a company that thrives on Innovation, we're always testing out new flowers and varieties. This summer we planted a small portion of our field with Zinnias and they were an immediate hit! We planted 7 different varieties and the vibrant colours were a wonderful addition to our summer product line. Added bonus they have a sweet smell and the bees, butterflies and frogs loved them too!
We'll only have Zinnias for a few more weeks before they're gone for the season. What do you think about this flower? Would you like to see more of them next year?
Our team at our Prest location is putting together some lovely bunches for auction this week. We have charming spray mixes and sweet Doria mixes on their way!
We’re sending these stunning Lisianthus to the auction today! We love the petals on this celebrich variety and we’re excited to see how it does for its first time at auction.
Around the Farm Friday! This week at Quik’s Farm we had the very special honour of welcoming delegates from Save-on-Foods for a tour around our farm. They got to see our team in action, see our crops up close and even try their hand at floral design! We love having the opportunity to partner with such a wonderful company and we’re glad they made the time to come see us!
We also spent the week with our normal routine of planting, picking and production. Thanks for an awesome week everyone! 🌻
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Zinnias, Statice and Sunflowers are all heading to the auction this week! We might be bias, but we love them all!!! ☺️
This month our Employee Spotlight is focused on Santiago Cruz Blas, a Greenhouse & Nursery Labourer here at Quik’s Farm. Santiago was one of the first foreign workers from Mexico to join our team and he’s been working with us for the past 12 years. He typically works with us from January thru August or September and we’re honoured to have him. Our conversation took place with the help of a translator, so this spotlight will read a little differently than most. 😊 Gracias Santiago!
Exciting news! We’ve grown some Zinnias for the very first time and we’re sending buckets of them to the auction this week. Just look at these amazing flowers! The colours are so very perfect for adding some summer vibes to your bouquets. 😀
We are proud to be the biggest grower of Sunflowers here in the Fraser Valley! With approximately 25 acres of field devoted to our Sunflower program, we will plant roughly 2.5 million Sunflower seeds this year! Our Sunflower season starts in late May and runs through to early October, which means we’re able to offer these stunning stems for the entire Summer and early Fall.
We are currently seeding 3 different varieties, but we’re testing out a handful of new varieties in our trials program, which will offer different colours and looks! We hope to show you those more closely once they’ve bloomed.
Our Sunflower field is a beautiful site to behold with it’s rolling hills, perfectly planted rows and gorgeous setting against the mountains. While it’s not open to the public, you can certainly find our finished product in your local floral shop or grocery store floral centre.🌻
We wish you all a safe and happy Canada Day!
Today our Employee Spotlight is focused on Komal Sharma, Human Resource Assistant. We are honoured that Komal has chosen to be a part of our team for nearly 4 years now. She’s a natural when it comes to taking care of our team’s safety and well being! When she’s not giving tours to new employees, you might find her doing safety checks, planning a company outing or administering First-Aid. Thank you for all that you do for us Komal!
Summer is officially here and our outdoor crops are especially happy for that warm sunshine! ☀️ We hope you all enjoy this first weekend of the summer season.
Everyone here at Quik’s Farm wishes all you fathers a very Happy Father’s Day!
Around the Farm Friday! As always there’s a lot of planting, picking and bouquet production happening around here! Happy Friday everyone!
Heading to the auction are some of our assorted Lisianthus! Just look at those ruffled petals and pretty colours! 😍
Our outdoor crops have been enjoying this warmer weather! We have about 40 acres of outdoor fields where we grow Sunflowers, Carthamus, Hybrid Lilies, Zinnia Trials, Sorghum Trials, Eryngium trials, Hydrangea Trials and Kale! We’ll check in on their progress throughout the summer!
One of our Core Values is “Community” and sometimes that means we host students on field trips, hold food drives or volunteer our time at a charity… other times it means we get our team together outside of work and shoot each other with paintballs! Last weekend we didn’t let the rain stop us from a bbq and afternoon playing paintball. We have a great team here at Quik’s Farm and we enjoy spending time together. 😀
SUNFLOWERS! 🌻 Thats right, the first sunflowers of the year were picked this week and they were sent to the United Flower Growers auction yesterday! While it may have only been one bucket, it was still an exciting moment! We’ll have sunflowers from now until Thanksgiving!🐞
SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS
We’re working with our suppliers to reduce the amount of plastic packaging used with the bulk product we bring in. We use bulk products in many of our bouquets, so the reduction in waste has already been significant. With the number of suppliers that have already made the change, we’ve reduced the amount of plastics going to the landfill by about 50kg a week.
This month our Employee Spotlight is focused on Marten Kuhn, Sales Manager. Marten has been a key member of the Quik's team since he joined the sales department 4 and a half years ago. He's often one of the smiling faces you'll see at trade shows and he works closely with several of our customers here in Western Canada.
Thanks for everything you do Marten!
Here at Quik's Farm we're proud growers of 8 different kinds of Statice! This unique flower has small compact blooms and makes an excellent addition to bouquets. We get our Statice plugs from Holland and once planted in our greenhouse, they stay in the ground for about 4-5 months. Over that time we're able to pick from each stem multiple times! Our Statice is available at the United Flower Growers Auction this week.
We are proud to call ourselves a full service floral provider! Not only do we grow, nurture and pick our flowers, we design and arrange bouquets, and sell and ship them to our customers! When it comes to flowers, we CARE about every step along the way. Here’s a peek at our crew picking some pretty yellow mums on a Thursday afternoon.
We wish all you moms out there a very Happy Mother’s Day weekend!
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Around the Farm Friday! Sunflowers, Zinnias and Field Lilies are out in the fields (much to the frogs delight). Bays in the Chrysanthemum greenhouse are being picked and replanted. Lights are being switched out to LED bulbs and Production is working on various arrangements (check out those Lisianthus! 😍). Great week everyone!#growingsmilesdaily #grower240 #zinnias #sunflowers #bcflowerfarm
Around the Farm Friday! Here’s a little peek at what’s been happening around our facilities this week. First off you’ll see our team of planters hand planting at our Prest greenhouse. Followed by a team member prepping a bay for planting at our McSween greenhouse. Then some shots of our outdoor crops (hello Sunflowers!) including a morning watering of our Carthamus crop. #growingsmilesdaily #bcflowerfarm #sunflowerfield #carthamus
Our pickers here at Quik’s Farm are always busy! Between our greenhouses and our field crops, there is generally never a day without picking. We have a pretty organized schedule in place, but of course flowers are ready when they’re ready, so sometimes even the best laid plans go out the window. We appreciate our team of pickers and all their hard work year round!#growingsmilesdaily #bcflowerfarm #behindthescenesatquiks #flowerpicking #pacificnorthwestflowers
Around the Farm Friday! Let’s give some of our beautiful blooms their chance for a closeup. 😍 Here are just a few of our disbud, spraymum and santinis from our greenhouse in pretty summer colours! #growingsmilesdaily #chrysanthemum #bcflowerfarm #pacificnorthwestflowers
Our production team is putting together some beautiful summer time spraymum bouquets! What a great way to add some bright pops of colour to your home and/or office. #growingsmilesdaily #pacificnorthwestflowers #bcflowerfarm #spraymums #summertimeflowers
For this weeks United Flower Growers flower auction, we’re sending buckets of Sunflowers and buckets of Statice! We’ll be having a closer look at Sunflowers in the weeks to come, so let’s have a closer look at Statice. Aren’t the tiny blooms just the CUTEST?! We have 8 different varieties of Statice and the colours are so vibrant! We absolutely love them!#growing smiles daily #bcflowerfarm #growninbc #pacificnorthwestflowers #statice
Heading off to the United Flower Growers auction we have beautiful and bright Sunflowers and a gorgeous colour selection of Statice! #grower240 #ufgca #growingsmilesdaily #bcflowerfarm #sunflowers #statice #pacificnorthwestflowers
Our chrysanthemum greenhouse is always in various stages of growing and the colour palette changes with the seasons. Bold and bright colours for the summer are on their way! ☀️#growingsmilesdaily #behindthescenesatquiks #bcflowerfarm #grower240 #pacificnorthwestflowers
We have some beautiful santini bunches and mixes heading to the United Flower Growers auction! Lots of varieties too! There’s Peptalk, Maradona, Baykal, Yin Yang, Armstrong, Jamey, Calimero and Skippy! Yippee! 🥳 #growingsmilesdaily #grower240 #pacificnorthwestflowers #santini
Our Oriental Lilies are being sent to the United Flower Growers auction this week! We have 4 varieties including Benson, Petacas, Silverside, and Vancouver. Benson (seen fully bloomed in this video) is our top seller, which is not surprising considering how stunning it is! #growingsmilesdaily #bcflowerfarm #pacificnorthwestflowers #lilies
We are proud to call ourselves a full service floral provider! Not only do we grow, nurture and pick our flowers, we design and arrange bouquets, and sell and ship them to our customers! When it comes to flowers, we CARE about every step along the way. Here’s a peek at our crew picking some pretty yellow mums on a Thursday afternoon. #growingsmilesdaily #behindthescenesatquiks #chrysanthemum #bcflowerfarm
Our greenhouses sure don’t look very green after the Mother’s Day madness! But don’t worry, our teams are busy planting every week, so these bays will be popping with colourful stems in the very near future. 🌼🌸 #growingsmilesdaily #bcflowerfarm #behindthescenesatquiks
What does a full service flower farm look like in the days leading up to Mother’s Day? Have a look! We’re incredibly busy putting together stunning bouquets for our customers, we’re picking our crops and planting inside and outside! It’s an organized chaos and we love it!#bcflowerfarm #behindthescenesatquiks #growingsmilesdaily
Mother’s Day is a very busy time of year for us here at Quik’s Farm and we need to thank our amazing crew for getting our flowers out to our customers. This team works tirelessly to get orders boxed, labeled, wrapped and on the trucks so our drivers can get them out to stores. Our flowers are so fresh because this team is so efficient! Thanks for all the great work team! #growingsmilesdaily #behindthescenesatquiks #mothersdayflowers
Mother’s Day is a big one around here at Quik’s Farm! Here are just SOME of the stems we’re growing specifically for all our Mother’s Day bouquets! We’ll show you these same bays again soon- things change (well, grow!) quickly around here! #growingsmilesdaily #mothersdaybouquets #grower240 #pacificnorthwestflowers
This week we assembled leaders from all of our departments to meet for some constructive team building led by leadership coach Trevor Thorness. We’re very proud of our entire team here at Quik’s Farm and we know we wouldn’t be where we are without each and every one of them working together for our common goal of providing top-quality products to our customers! Thank you Trevor for spending the day with us, we all learned a lot! #growingsmilesdaily #behindthescenesatquiks
The teams in the greenhouse have been picking like crazy today! While machines definitely make some parts of the job easier, we couldn’t do it without these powerhouse pickers! Way to go team! #growingsmilesdaily #grower240 #pacificnorthwestflowers #flowerfarm #growninbc
Easter is just around the corner and our Production Team is making some incredibly beautiful bouquets! Getting your hands on one is easy- just drop by your local grocery store!#behindthescenesatquiks #easterflowers #growingsmilesdaily