150) Slow flowers that truly commemorate our love for one another and the earth with Debra Prinzing
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Debra Prinzing (@dkprinzing) is a Seattle-based writer, speaker and leading advocate for American Grown Flowers. Through her many Slow Flowers-branded projects, including SlowFlowers.com (@myslowflowers), Slow Flowers Podcast, and American Flowers Week, she has convened a national conversation that stimulates consumers and professionals alike to make conscious choices about their floral purchases.
On this podcast episode, Debra sheds light on why we need a slow flowers movement; the environmental impacts of growing flowers with an artisan mindset versus a commodity mindset; the vital role of flowers in our food production; how our collective loss of knowledge on seasonality helped drive agrobiodiversity loss; and more.
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
| 0:26.8 | We need your direct support in order to continue this podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | And you can help us out so, so much through a paid substack subscription to my newsletter at |
| 0:37.3 | camaya.substack.com or through a one-time |
| 0:40.4 | donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so |
| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:54.0 | Flowers connect humans with nature and heighten our awareness of the or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:58.7 | Flowers connect humans with nature and heighten our awareness of the seasons. |
| 1:00.8 | They root us to our place on the planet. |
| 1:05.3 | Our senses, see, smell, touch, and even hear and taste, botanical beauty. |
| 1:08.6 | I believe this is a truth understood by all humans. |
| 1:16.6 | How can a slow flowers movement help us to regain the true meaning of love for one another and for nature in the flowers that we use to commemorate special occasions with? |
| 1:21.6 | And how has our collective loss of knowledge on seasonality |
| 1:25.6 | help to drive agrobaldiversity loss in the types of crops, plants, |
| 1:29.7 | and flowers that we grow. That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. |
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