From both backyards and balconies people are home gardening at rates not seen since the Victory Gardens of the 1940’s.
There are several important trends that make up this movement:
Consumers are seeking out organic food options at a staggering rate.
One in three households grow food at home. It’s fresher, tastes better and costs less.
Families with children, Millennials and Urban Gardeners are the fastest growing segments.
Half of all home gardeners grow vegetables or fruit in container gardens.
If you own or operate a garden center, farm market or retail food store you should be taking advantage of the opportunity to combine all these hyper popular trends in food and gardening.
How? Very simple.
Summer Wind Farms offers a magnificent lineup of USDA Certified Organic home garden plants that will fill your market with high end shoppers looking for local, Organically produced plants for their garden, patio or deck.
Make your retail outlet stand out from the crowd with large 3 ½” pot 18 per tray, main season veggies and herbs. We offer a vast selection of great varieties of things like tomato, pepper, squash, cucumber, eggplant, herbs and more. Our varieties include everything from the popular basics and heirlooms to cutting edge cultivars from some of the world’s most innovative plant breeders. For the early season we do a great selection of lettuces, kales, Swiss chard, cauliflower, broccoli and more. These are grown in 4 packs 8 packs per tray.
For container gardeners we make buying easy with our lineup of Patio Planters, Bowls and Hanging Baskets. Some examples of our innovative items are edible flowers and bee pollinator flowers in planters, Strawberries and Weeping tomatoes in hanging baskets, gourmet salad mix and Asian stir fry greens in patio bowls. There are plenty more to choose from, just check out our list in the file link below.
Our latest innovation, crafted for environmentally conscious consumers, is our line up of ORGANICOLOR brand ornamental flowers. These are the same annual and perennial flowers your customers love, EXCEPT, they are grown as USDA Certified Organic. Pollinators, Butterflies and Hummingbirds that visit your customers garden are fully protected thanks to our organic production practices. We grow them in 3 1/2" pots, patio planters and hanging baskets. A few item do not qualify for Organic certification, normally do to the pelletizing of the seeds. These we still grow using the same practices but we market and label them as ECOFLOWERS.
We generally grow based on advance orders with limited in season open availability.
Your customers are looking for a quality, local and organic alternative to the brand found at the big box stores. We can help you give them what they want!
Shoot us an email at [email protected] for pricing, other information and to order. We’ll send you a Google Photos link so you can see some examples of our plants. Questions? Call Frank at 856-207-7792.