Local flowers are not your average grocery store flowers
Our farm is designed so that we can invite you to see the flowers growing, the same flowers that are picked for bouquets. You are able to see the butterflies fluttering by and smell the fragrance of thousands of flowers. You’ll see how these flowers become part of the ecosystem of our farm.
Our flowers are grown near you, not across the world and flown in on cargo planes. Our flowers are freshly picked and weren’t stored in cooled shipping containers while waiting to be delivered to a warehouse. Our flowers are wrapped in string or newspaper where possible, not cellophane, a single use plastic.
Our farm, growing space, and electric car are powered by solar panels. We do not needlessly use pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizer without first trying other natural techniques. We till the soil only as much as needed in order to get our machines and plows through the hard packed, clay-based soil. We perform crop rotation, especially with our tulips, to minimize pest and fungal problems. We add woodchips, compost, and manure to refresh the soil.
Our land has been used by university students to conduct research on turtle and bat habitats. We see a diverse number of birds that have nests and use our property for habitat. Pollinators love going from plant to plant, eating in abundance.
Local flowers mean that people in your community benefit from your purchase. Your local neighbours are working at our fields. Your local environment gets a boost from all of the pollinators and careful farming practices. Local flowers last longer in your home because they are freshly picked for you.
We recognize that Green Corners Farm is located on unceeded territory of the Anishanaabe Algonquin people, who were the first caretakers of this land.
We mourn the effects of colonization on this land. The damage done to ecosystems, the loss of habitats for fauna, and the loss of indigenous knowledge that has broadly damaged the environment.
We hope to make the original indigenous caretakers of this land proud by bringing diversity back to this land.
Items we collect and reuse
Please contact us to arrange drop-off
- Cylindrical vases, particularly ones purchased from us.
- Newspapers. Full sized like the Ottawa Citizen, not flyers.