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Slow food, slow travel, slow fashion…. Slow Flowers! The “Slow movement” is not a fleeting trend but a new, sustainable way of acting, producing, consuming and appreciating – as a counterpart to mass production and mass consumption with all its negative pressures and consequences. Within the...
An unexpected discovery at an abandoned allotment in Coventry has led to a project looking to preserve the city’s trees. Coventry University researchers Liz Trenchard and Sam Green came across apple blossom growing at the abandoned allotment site while walking around Charterhouse Park. They...
Most consumers consider sustainability an important topic. As do horticultural product buyers. The Flower Council of Holland studied this in four EU countries. Nearly 90% of people would like to buy locally grown flowers and plants, and over one third of them are actually doing so. The Flower...
This strategy, intended to set up an even more reliable supply chain and thus better guarantee product quality, provides for the relocation of mother plant production from Central America to Africa and vice versa.
