On Saturday, April 14th, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Santa Barbara County Flower & Nursery Growers’ Association, is hosting the 10th Annual Carpinteria Greenhouse & Nursery Tour, an opportunity for the public to meet their local flower farmer and to see firsthand how Santa Barbara County’s flower farms the beautiful blooms.
Enjoy seeing a colorful array of flowers from orchids and roses to gerberas and more while listening to farmer-guided tours. On this tour you will learn what it takes to run a flower farm and the amazing process involved with growing fresh, beautiful, CA Grown Flowers. We recommend you wear comfortable shoes and layered clothing as many of these tours will involve walking through greenhouses or growing areas and in varying temperatures. Don’t miss out on meeting your local flower farmer!
You are invited to tour local flower farms in the Carpinteria Valley, the most productive cut flower region of the US and an opportunity for the public to meet their local flower farmer and to see firsthand how Santa Barbara County’s flower farms create beauty that contributes over $770.7 million in economic impact to the local economy and produces over 50 percent of California’s farm gate value of flowers. With the Golden State producing approximately 75 percent of the nation’s beautiful blooms, Carpinteria has become widely known as the “Flower Basket” of the United States.
The public is invited to attend free, farmer-guided tours on Saturday of six flower farms located in the Carpinteria Valley. Among the flowers that will be showcased are roses, gerberas, orchids, potted plants and more. Each farmer will demonstrate a variety of sustainable growing and harvesting practices.
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This event is important because it provides an annual opportunity to invite the public into our farms to see the beauty growing inside. We have so many beautiful plants and flowers growing inside Carpinteria's greenhouses, the tours allows us to share that beauty and highlight how our flower farms help the local economy and provide many types of jobs.
The Annual Carpinteria Greenhouse & Nursery Tour was established by the Santa Barbara County Flower and Nursery Growers' Association. The Association was -more- established in 1975 to support its farms through advocacy, promotion and public relations efforts to ensure a positive long-term relationship with the local community. The farm tour gives the public the rare opportunity to see the beauty growing on our local flower farms.
For more information on the tour, please call (805) 576-7417 or visit www.carpinteriafarmtours.com
