The Floral Source (2025)

14/06/2025

California grown flowers & foliage shining bright all day, every day, 12 months a year! Thank you to our hardworking farms of all sizes and their farm workers that sustain us throughout the year with food and flowers on our tables. Especially, when the rest of the country is in their shoulder seasons! California is responsible for producing 75% of the country’s cut flowers.
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Thank you .j._mcgrath_design for highlighting their seasonal floral beauty in June so perfectly with your design! Origin matters!
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12/06/2025

🌿 As we watch injustice unfold in California and across the country, we’d be remiss not to honor the people behind the blooms who make what we do possible.
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America’s flower fields are as diverse as the people who grow them. From multi-generational family farms to immigrant-owned operations, the U.S. floral industry is powered by a wide range of growers. Many rely on the labor of immigrant and migrant workers—from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and beyond.
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They are the unseen hands behind the beauty.

👉 Migrant and immigrant workers are essential.

They are the backbone of American flower production. Across the country—especially in states like California, Oregon, and Washington—immigrant and migrant workers make up the majority of the agricultural labor force, including flower farming.
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🌸 Without them, domestically grown flowers, foliage, and food wouldn’t be possible at scale.
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Many of these workers travel seasonally to meet the needs of different farms and regions. Programs like the H-2A visa bring in temporary agricultural workers during peak seasons. They leave their families behind to do work that’s vital to both our food and floral systems.
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Many still face enormous challenges:
• Low wages
• Inadequate housing
• Exposure to extreme weather
• Limited legal protections
• Uncertain immigration status

These are the realities behind the beauty we celebrate.
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Their role isn’t just labor—it’s foundational.
They are part of the infrastructure that allows florists, designers, and flower lovers to access seasonal, domestically grown botanicals.
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Their labor sustains farms, communities, and the creative work we do.
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Yes, American grown flowers come from many kinds of people and places. But immigrant and migrant workers are a core reason these flowers reach our hands—especially year-round.
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At The Floral Source, we are committed to honoring their contributions not just in words—but by educating, advocating, and sourcing in ways that reflect gratitude and justice.
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🌿 Honoring their role is essential to a more just, sustainable floral industry

09/06/2025

Absolutely incredible to be in the same room with all the pivotal people in my floral journey yesterday at for a book signing for The Flower Farmers! Not many people get to see the whole picture of their story in one moment.
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In 2014 I joined in NYC for her annual conference and a whole new world opened up for a young mom designing weddings in her parent’s garage feeling like a fraud because I didn’t have a beautiful studio. But at this conference I met others just like me that were raising kids and following dreams. Holly paved a new path for a new generation of wedding florists and created a life changing community in the industry!
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At the 2015 conference I heard present about and designing with what grew in our communities. I realized I had no idea what grew here in Maryland throughout the year but wanted to challenge myself to learn. So in 2015 I created a year-long project at farm to design a styled shoot each season with whatever they grew. To say this project changed my life is an understatement.
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When the project was completed I reached out to Debra asking if she remembered meeting me and if she had any ideas about what I should do with this project. I thought maybe a calendar or coffee table book. But I became a Slow Flowers member and Debra pitched the story to and in January 2017 an 11 page feature story was published in the first edition of The Slower Flowers Journal.
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Doors I never imagined opening began opening and I was connected with . From there I started learning more about where flowers were coming from in our country as I self funded trips to walk the fields and talk with farmers from Virginia to California and Florida to Alaska.
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The Floral Source launched in October 2019 with a single goal to help other florists learn about where flowers came from, walk the fields with flower farmers and design where the flowers grew in a fully immersive multi sensory retreat workshop. But Covid happened and suddenly gathering with people on farms wasn’t possible.
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In April 2020 I reached out to my friend, neighbor & colleague and said I have this idea. I want to put boxes of American grown flowers & greens together to ship direct to flower lovers across the country to help our farms and help people feel connected to nature while we are trapped in our homes. She invited me over to create some content and we started photographing these boxes on her porch each week for almost a year. Her photography helped me launch into realm of the floral industry I never saw coming with creating accessibility for florists and farmer florists to farm direct wholesale American grown product year-round. This picture captures my journey more than these words could ever describe and may be one of the most coveted photos I now have. Without each of these incredible people giving me new opportunities I wouldn’t be where I am. Thank you Debra, Holly, Leon, Carol & Beth for helping me build a life that I’m so honored I get to live. To anyone not sure where your path is going don’t give up, keep going, take that new opportunity, take risks, dream big. It’s so worth it! 🌸

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