05/27/2026
This week has been heartbreaking.
When people scroll social media, they usually see the beautiful side of farming the bouquets, the blooms, the sunsets, the pretty rows in the field. What they don’t see are the losses.
This week, due to a cooler failure, we lost a significant amount of cut flowers that had been harvested and stored carefully alongside bread products. On top of that, because our fields have been exceptional this season and we simply ran out of cooler space, we’ve also lost bucket after bucket of blooms that couldn’t be processed quickly enough.
A single bucket can hold close to 100 stems. This week, we threw out nearly 20 buckets.
That’s potentially thousands of stems. Thousands of dollars. But more than that it’s the time, labour, care, watering, harvesting, and love that went into every single flower. It’s heartbreaking to grow something so beautiful only to watch it never make it into someone’s home to be enjoyed.
But this is farming.
Every time you choose to buy local flowers, vegetables, bread, meat, or produce, you are supporting families who absorb these losses quietly behind the scenes while continuing to show up day after day.
We are incredibly fortunate to have so many wonderful flower farms in our area. If my farm is too far for you, send me a message I will happily direct you to another local grower closer to home.
Because while we continue importing flowers from other countries every single day, there are local farmers here pouring everything they have into growing something beautiful for their own communities.
