By Vanessa Brown •
August 29, 2009
image courtesy of CaliforniaOrganicFlowers.com
We are a family that sends flowers to funerals, mothers in the hospital, for Mothers Day, or just because. To be honest, I still have not found a great online source for ordering and buying flowers. I haven’t been thrilled with any of them and just now realized I should have been looking for an organic flower source. We strive for everything else to be organic. Why not the flowers we send as gifts?
I started browsing the web in search of these companies and am excited to share with you the list I put together:
This ancient, mutually beneficial arrangement insures each new generation of the flowering plant. It has probably been going since shortly after the first flowering plants (angiosperms) appeared on earth some 250 million years ago. Industrial air pollution is now hampering this ancient relationship.
By Jackie Hernandez •
April 29, 2009
Not all of us are lucky enough to be craft divas ready to whip up the perfect gift for Mother’s Day. For the rest of us there is Etsy where you can find a beautiful handmade gift mom is sure to love. Whether or not you want to fess up to buying your handmade gift is up to you.
Flowers are a traditional fall back gift for mom, but this year consider a handmade floral-inspired gift that will last a bit longer. Here are my top picks for eco-friendly Mother’s Day gifts. All of the gifts in this roundup are floral-inspired and made from natural and sustainable materials.
By Lucille Chi •
April 17, 2009
While we’re on the topic of Weddings this week, I noticed that these lovely spring flower pins would look just darling on top of a veil or as an exquisite bridesmaid’s corsage.
Have you ever made fabric flowers?
By Jackie Hernandez •
March 27, 2009
I am always inspired by Junk Camp projects, like the rubber stamp photo holders. Spring is here and Ki is sharing a flower trug tutorial made from a vintage feedsack. We are big fans of repurposing feed sacks.
By Becky Striepe •
March 18, 2009
Atlanta artist Stephanie-D uses vintage and scrap fabric to construct her beautiful Hip Bouquets
[Nuclear Picnic Hip Bouquet]
“But what’s a hip bouquet?” you ask. Stephanie describes her creation:
By Gina Munsey •
March 10, 2009
Greening your wedding doesn’t automatically mean emptying all the green from your pocketbook.
There are countless innovative ways you can have an eco-conscious wedding celebration — ways that go far beyond a hand-crafted wedding dress or an organic meal.
In this eco-guide, learn how we minimized consumerism and pulled off a fabulously green wedding by incorporating family heirlooms, repurposing everyday objects, growing our own organic flowers, questioning the must-haves…and much, much more.
By Lucille Chi •
February 10, 2009
Planning a romantic day this Valentines? Yes? No? Well, just in case, here is our lovely green Valentine guide for the upcoming holiday:
- Love Notes: Give your sweets a personalized note that you craft yourself or share the love with virtual notes like WWF E-cards and Nature Conservancy Valentine E-cards.
- Blooms: Organic Bouquet has wonderful ways to give fresh flowers and help charity at the same time, and Local Harvest is another favorite flower source of ours that always brings the freshness of the flower-farm into your home.
By Becky Striepe •
December 23, 2008
[Guerrilla Gardening. Creative Commons photo by Ondřej Lipár]
File this under genius! Carbon Copy has an easy recipe for making seed bombs. Carry these little home-made pellets around and toss them into places that could use a little bit of plant life. Here’s how you do it!
By John Simonetta •
September 23, 2008
This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.
A number of manufacturers are working on natural (non-dyed) paper impregnated with seeds. The idea is that if you plant items made of these papers flowers or trees will grow.
Bloomin’ Promotions and Seed Cards are two manufactures doing this type of thing.
I really don’t know what to make of this idea.
If properly used I am sure they would be a great learning tool, perhaps in an educational setting - write a letter to the planet, plant the letter in the school yard and see it live - that type of thing.
