About 40% of what KB sells is not from our own
production. A lot of it comes from local growers and cutters who work
hard to produce or cut beautiful and unusual flowers and greens.
California is known for the unique and fun: berries, branches, grasses, blossoms,
pods, etc. If it wasn’t for their efforts, we would live in a commodity
world of boring roses, carnations, pompons, lilies and gyp.
Our growers are by and large of Hispanic origin and
usually learned their trade working for other growers. We know how hard
it is to survive and thrive as flower growers, so we invited them over for a
“Thank You” BBQ and to have a discussion on how we can support them.
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| Local Flower Growers - picture by Tony |
Our local Ag Extension agent Steve Tjosvold came to
explain resources available to help these growers with growing issues.
Steve has been supporting the Monterey Bay flower growers for over 25 years and
he has seen the decline in growers, and was heartened to see a good size group
still growing flowers.
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| Discussion at KB - picture by Tony |
At KB, our goal is to increase total flower production in
Northern California. A growing supply of good quality, good value, and
interesting flowers equals to - everything better for all involved.
When we ask these growers, “How can we help?” They tell us, “Sell
our flowers,” and to do our part, we will make sure they grow good quality
and we pay them fair prices.
You can do your part by ordering flowers
grown by hard working California growers.
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| CA Grown - picture by Tony |
~RHK
It's Great to see All the Flower Farmers that provide the Great Product we get from KB Farms... Awesome... Thanks for sharing!
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