scottish cut flowers
It’s our vision to help our customers reduce their environmental footprint
giving them the choice to buy home-grown flowers over imported foreign flowers.
This small decision will have a big impact on the reduction of carbon emissions
from unhealthy production techniques and transport fumes. We strive to
continually reduce our environmental footprint by choosing recyclable or
compostable packaging, streamlining deliveries, avoiding synthetic chemicals
like the plague and whenever possible sourcing product from within Britain,
Scotland ideally. Farming counterintuitively can be detrimental to the land, I’m
talking about the huge hedge-less fields, large machinery and single crop type
of farming you see everywhere. At SCF we aim to be the opposite of that, we have
50+ different varieties of flowers for the wildlife to feed and live from, we
use minimum till methods to protect the important worm population, we use
compost to add fertility, and beneficial insects rather than synthetic chemicals
to control pests and weed suppression material to negate the need for weed
killer. We feel it is our duty as custodians of the land to help in the fight to
save the bees, this year we will be undertaking a bee keeping course and hope to
establish our hives by mid-summer. With such an abundance of flowers and
surrounding fields, we should be able to provide a sanctuary for at least a
couple of hives which will increase the pollination of those surrounding food
crops. We are buzzing!
