More Insights from our Sustainable Farming x Floral Design Panel

"Each region has its own local food tradition—because of the geography, because of the climate, because of the ways people have evolved with place—and it only makes sense that each place have a local flower tradition. And yet that in a lot of ways seems to have been lost, and I really see [local flowers] in a sense as us re-storying ourselves with the lands that we belong with." - Kellee Matsushita-Tseng

From left: Emily Saeger, Kellee Matsushita-Tseng and Molly Culver

Kellee Matsushita-Tseng, Emily Saeger, and Molly Culver, based in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Brooklyn, respectively, found their initial paths to farming through an interest in growing food and local food systems.

Drawn to the physicality of the work, they all found that farming was also a meaningful way to engage with social and environmental justice issues important to them. As Emily describes, while some of our connection to agriculture has been lost, local and sustainable farming helps restore that relationship. “We still have a long way to go, but I think [as] we move back to hyper-localized food and flowers, it creat