Sustainability

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From floral form to imported flowers, the floral industry can be not so friendly to our local and worldwide ecologies. At Rosehip, we strive to minimize our own impact on the environment by reusing hard goods and other materials as much as we can, composting, recycling, and reduce our reliance on products and services that use fossil fuels.

Our efforts include:

  • COMPOSTING

    • We compost…and compost A LOT. We use a commercial composting facility to pick up our compost. This amounts to a weekly pickup for approximately 200+ pounds of compostable items. (Sometimes, we even have to hold over our compost for the next week’s pick-up!)

  • REPURPOSING

    • Wholesale flower shipments oftentimes come in cardboard boxes with paper and plastic packaging. We re-use this packaging for our own deliveries and for transportation to our events to extend the life of items that are traditionally single-use.

    • We acquire many plastic pots and plant trays from our wholesale plant orders. We store and then return pots and trays back to the wholesalers, so they can be repurposed. Any that we don’t return, we use as packaging for our own deliveries and for transportation to our events (plant trays make excellent bud vase carriers!).

    • We dry past-prime shop and event flowers to use in dried-based installations as well as dried bouquets, which are available for purchase in our shop and are a great option for those looking for something sustainable and long-lasting!

    • We melt leftover wax from event votives into our own custom dyed candles—available for purchase in our shop!

  • RECYCLING

    • Any cardboard box that we cannot reuse is returned to our wholesalers for re-use or recycled.

    • Our staff have access to paper, plastic, and glass recycling in our shop and design studio. Just try to count kombucha bottles!

  • SOURCING LOCAL

    • We source flowers from local sources as much as possible, including farms in Upstate NY and on Long Island, in order to reduce our reliance on imported blooms and foliage. Some of our partners have included Stone Barns Center For Food And Agriculture and Soursop Flower Farm.

    • We grow interesting foliage and flowers in our backyard and in our own upstate microfarm! We have been able to grow 2000+ flowers each growing season. These are often used for large-scale installation to reduce the need for those bulky elements to be brought in from distant locations.

  • USING ALTERNATIVE MECHANICS

    • We have proudly eliminated our use of floral foam, instead focusing on designs that can be built using compostable floral fiber, floral pins, and/or chicken wire.

    • We have reduced our use of PVC pipes in favor of metal structures as the basis for installations—cue the heavy metal puns!