This Valentine's Day, consider the environmental impact of your flowers. Industrial flower production often involves harmful pesticides, unsustainable water use, and long transportation distances. Friends of the Earth encourages choosing locally grown, sustainable flowers to reduce your carbon footprint and support local farmers. The Flower Farmers of Ireland offers a directory of growers who prioritize environmentally friendly practices.
On Valentine’s Day, say it with flowers – just don’t buy the ones with a bad backstorySpectacular as they may look, flowers grown in another country or continent in near-industrial conditions, using pesticides, herbicides and artificial fertilisers to force growth sort of stink.
Their carbon footprint, land, water and pesticide use and the unsustainable and unrecyclable materials used to display and package them mean some cut flowers are far from lovely, says Friends of the Earth.The Flower Farmers of Ireland is a collective of growers who support our own cut-flower and foliage growers. They believe that flowers and foliage should be grown sustainably, with respect for the environment. This has massive benefits for the environment by boosting.
Unlike a shop bought bouquet, these dried flowers will last for months, seeing you through until next spring, says Ryan. Then you can refill the vase with fresh flowers.too. She grows a myriad of artisan flowers from seed, “using sustainable growing practices, without any chemicals, in tune with the seasons here in lovely Cork,” says Scannell.
There aren’t too many flowers in bloom in Ireland in February, so why not instead have some delivered in April or May when the season is kicking off? Wild & Green Flower Farm in“Growing with the seasons and the Irish climate is important to me,” Prendergast says. “Flowers are grown according to their seasons here, and are arranged in a wild and natural style to give the feeling of a garden-gathered bunch of flowers.
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