Debra Prinzing , founder and creative director of Slow Flowers LLC , announced a new West Coast venue partnership and program details of the fourth annual Slow Flowers Summit , coincide with the 6th American Flowers Week campaign .
" The Slow Flowers Summit dish out the progressive floral community of designers , raiser , farmer - florists , middleman , retailers and flower lovers , " say Prinzing , producer of the Summit and founder of the Slow Flowers Movement . " As an inclusive gathering for creative flowered professional , the SUMMIT shine the mission of dull Flowers : " To change the bloom sourcing practices of consumers and professionals through outreach and education that highlights the benefit of local , seasonal and domesticated floral agribusiness . " Teresa Sabankaya , owner of Bonny Doon Garden Co. , in Santa Cruz , Calif. , will wait on as cobalt - host of the Summit .
On June 30 , 2020 , the SUMMIT will be hosted in San Francisco by Christina Stembel , founder and chief operating officer of Farmgirl Flowers , who invite attendees to an exclusive , behind - the - scenes morning tour and presentation at Farmgirl Flowers ' HQ . Stembel is a past keynote verbaliser of the Summit and was recently named to the San Francisco Business Times ' Most Admired CEO of 2019 .
Prinzing developed the SUMMIT as an alternative to ceremonious floral conferences and as an interactive " live " element to the virtual American Flowers Week campaign ( June 28 - July 4 ) . AFW devote a workweek of action via regional events and societal media platforms to promote domestic heyday , raise consumer knowingness and connect America ’s flower farmers with the U.S. floral industry .
Speakers : Keynote loudspeaker Susan Mcleary , an Ann Arbor , Michigan - base floral designer , artist and author , will complain off the Slow Flowers Summit lecture serial with an original , highly personal presentation that share and encourage attendees with her coming to bring up and nourish a creative life . Sue ’s floral design demonstration will be followed by a signing for her first book , The Art of Wearable Flowers .
A venire will follow , boast the voices and art of three Fannie Farmer - florists , moderated by Kellee Matsushita - Tseng of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems in Santa Cruz . With panelists Molly Culver of Brooklyn - based Molly Oliver Flowers and Emily Saeger of Filoli ’s Horticulture Program , they will present Sustainable Farming x Floral Design , discussing how roots in floral agriculture influence and urge their floral artistic production . Each will project a key signature floral arrangement using all local - and seasonal ingredient .
Artist and architect , writer , editor and educator Lorene Edwards Forkner is a columnist for the Seattle Times ' hebdomadary horticulture pillar and author of five garden books , include Handmade Garden Projects . Lorene ’s synergistic presentation is inspired by her Instagram series , reckon Color in the Garden , detect @gardenercook .
Oakland - free-base Pilar Zuniga , owner of Gorgeous & Green , is a flowered designer known for her sustainable practices , local sourcing and brilliant aesthetic . Pilar has remonstrate on sustainability and entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley ’s Haas School of Business and she will discuss Branding the Sustainable Floral Business followed by a designing demonstration of her iconic floral style .
Capstone speaker Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of Cultivating Place , an accolade - winning public radio programme and podcast about natural history and the human impulse to garden . She is based in Chico , Calif. Jennifer ’s presentation is drawn from her new Holy Scripture , The Earth In Her Hands , 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants , and centre on women transmute horticulture around the world .
Tickets to the 2 - 1/2 - day issue are $ 599 , including refreshments , meal and evening receptions . Slow Flowers members receive discounted pricing of $ 549.Pre - Registration is usable at slowflowerssummit.com .
