It’s easy to picture flower farmers with dirt on their hands, watching the weather, and moving quickly through the narrow windows when crops are ready to harvest. That part is true. But it’s only part of the story. Outside of the fields, our growers are artists, adventurers, makers, and community builders. The same curiosity and …
We think it can! This past week we got a new walk-in cooler delivered to our hub. While this makes Cooler #4 for us, it’s the only one with the PFG logo and we think she’s pretty darn sexy!! This cooler is a beautiful testament to how the PFG community is growing and supporting each …
While recently doing some research into the sustainability challenges of the floral industry, we came across a shocking statistic. According to hanafloristpos.com, “A whopping 45% of all flowers die and have to be discarded before they are ever sold. That’s almost one out of every two flowers!” This product waste – shrink – is devastating …
We had our first in a series of PFG flower farm tours last evening, kicking it off with Love ‘n Fresh Flowers, one of our flower farms right in the heart of Philadelphia. Many of our florist customers are already familiar with this flower farm because it serves as the hub for our flower collective. …
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If you’ve been confused by the timeline for shopping with PFG, below is a helpful visualization of the important times to remember.
Have you seen that trend on social media lately where people pretend their life is a Wes Anderson film? We thought we’d give it a try too! And now we are convinced that a flower farm and flower collective need to be the next set for an authentic Wes Anderson feature film. Who knows someone …
Philadelphia Floral Guild was founded in 2022 after a brainstorming session between Love ‘n Fresh Flowers, Hickory Grove Gardens, and Flores Temporis. There had been a growing demand for locally grown flowers, but no centralized hub was currently available to designers in the Philadelphia and New Jersey area. It was important to these women to …
