Bouquet Diversity

Iris are perfect for 4th of July!

Recently, I took a few moments to just wander around the fields where I work, the Sun Valley Floral Farms. Looking around, the beautiful early summer flowers were blooming: irises, hydrangeas and greenhouses were brimming with tulips and lilies. I took notice of all the sizes and shapes of trucks, production lines and giant coolers. Then I thought to myself, look at all these team members – the most valuable assets of all. 

Horonato has worked at Sun Valley for years; his family is from the Machu Picchu region of Peru.

Sun Valley Floral Farms is so diverse. Where else but America would you get this amazing ethnic blend of people, all united in the complicated task of bringing California-grown flowers to the rest of the country? When you talk to the people who make their living planting, picking and packaging our flowers, you see that Sun Valley is a great example of the American melting pot. It’s like a beautiful bouquet of different skill sets, worldviews and dreams. And just like a bouquet, the people all complement each other.

We have team members that don’t just speak English and Spanish, but Dutch, Laotian, Chinese, Hmong, I-Kiribati, Indonesian, Flemish and we also have a guy from The Bronx, who speaks “New York.”  Lane DeVries, the CEO, realized years ago that a large majority of our team members on our Oxnard farm only spoke Spanish. So he and the rest of the team leaders learned Spanish themselves and now conduct the all-farm meetings in both Spanish and English. 

Sales Rep. Laura Kurtz speaks four languages!

Work on any farm is hard. Yet, the people who work at Sun Valley are dedicated to something as pure and unpretentious as a delicate flower for you to enjoy in your home.  It is a bit humbling to see the work and effort that brings that flower from our hands to yours; this is the American Dream incarnate. 

You find the Stars and Stripes all over our farm.

Right now there are teams out picking bright red tulips and matsumoto asters, fragrant white lilies and lisianthus to be combined with classic blue irises, all American-grown. To brighten up your 4^th of July celebration, make sure to pick-up a Sun Valley Floral Farms red, white and blue bouquet. Then, sit down with your family and take a few moments to appreciate the great country we all share.

Lilies, Red Matsumotos, Eryngium and Bear Grass Bouquet

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Happy Independence Day!