A core tenet of our business is sustainability. Our key material is nature itself, and we see it as our duty to help protect it! Therefore, we take an eco-friendly approach to floral design. We do this in a variety of ways, including:
- Focusing on local, in-season flowers during the Midwest growing season to minimize carbon footprint
- Working directly with local sustainable flower farmers
- Recycling and composting waste
- Communicating all invoices electronically, reducing paper use
- Passing it on - we love to coordinate flower donations after events. Many of our flowers enjoy a second life at nursing homes and hospitals around the city.
- Flowers by stem owner Stephanie is the Vice President of the Green Wedding Alliance, a collective of local wedding and event vendors in the Chicago area, working together to bring more eco-friendly practices to the event industry,
- Eliminating the use of floral foam, a toxic material that is not biodegradable and has an impact on landfills - here are some of the many designs that we've done WITHOUT the use of floral foam (fun fact: we use chicken wire instead!):
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