Fair Trade Roses

for Valentine's Day

-a gift that gives back.

Valentine's Day is coming fast! Although we aren't particularly crazy about artificially-induced, overly commercialized and super-hyped holidays, St. Valentine was, after all, a prisoner, and the day is, ostensibly, about love. It is possible to do the right thing by your sweetie, as well as by the people who do the work.

Tiger Lily is one of two retail florists in the entire New York/New Jersey metropolitan area that sells Fair Trade certified and organic flowers. Fair Trade is an internationally recognized certification that guarantees that the flowers were produced on farms that provide their workers a real living wage, child care, education and training, and secure the rights of women. It also means that they are either using exclusively organic farming techniques (sparing their workers and us from pesticide exposure) or are making demonstrable progress in that direction.

We order our Fair Trade roses from two farms in Kenya. In high-volume seasons such as this, we must give the growers two weeks notice since our flowers are cut to order and shipped to us within 24 hours. It doesn't get any fresher that that. If you would like to order Fair Trade roses for Valentine's Day, give us a call or email us with your order to ensure that we have your flowers in stock.

We also carry a full line of Fair Trade certified gifts and jewelry at our Cedar Lane store, along with a whole range of flowers from around the world.We look forward to hearing from you.

And we also hope that you don't find yourself in the store on February 15th for our "Doghouse Special" (3 dozen roses for a whole lot of money!)