Just read that 40% of cut flowers in the US are imported from Colombia, saw it in a trade magazine yesterday.

That's a huge number and honestly makes me rethink my whole supply chain. Anyone else try to source more locally after seeing stats like that?

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cora_scott771mo ago

My cousin runs a flower farm in Oregon and it's wild how much fuel gets burned just to get blooms to a city two hours away.

jessica_ross381mo ago

Read an article about how local flower farms can have a bigger carbon footprint than imports if their transport isn't efficient. It's not just about distance, but how packed the trucks are and how often they run. Makes you wonder about the whole supply chain.

riley_schmidt20d ago

You said "makes you wonder about the whole supply chain" and honestly, yeah. That's the thing nobody talks about when they go all in on local. I mean, a fully loaded cargo ship crossing the ocean might actually be more fuel efficient per flower than a half empty pickup truck driving fifty miles. It's like how people think shopping local always saves energy, but sometimes the math just doesn't work out that way. So it's not really about local vs imported, it's about how we run the whole system.