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I wanted to think big and be nontraditional in my approach to staging my own mini-version of such an ambitious platform.

I attended the Seattle TEDx conference last November, curious to experience that format.

Rather than a farming-themed symposia, the Summit speaker lineup and topics came together to include professional floral design, domestic sourcing and environmentally-conscious practices, personal development, as well as business branding, values and creativity.Īnd this leads to the second thing that inspired and influenced me.

#STATE FARM MIND MELD FULL#

I called Amy and asked if she would be my keynote speaker to talk about the decade of change that we’ve witnessed in the domestic cut flower industry.Īmy’s involvement lent the gravitas that we needed as the hub around which to build a full day of conversations about the progressive ideas that the Slow Flowers Movement espouses. The Slow Flowers Summit, the idea more than anything else concrete, bubbled up into my consciousness and I looked at the calendar to think about my options. We both filed the idea away and then later in the year, while I was beginning plans for American Flowers Week 2017, I thought, “Why don’t I hold some kind of symposium during that week? Maybe Amy will come and speak.” Amy’s presentation: “Where We’ve Come From and Where We’re Heading” shares her floral obvervations and predictions.

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