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Canadian family farm grows local flowers

Flowers are a three-generation family affair for Debbie Gordon, daughter Amanda Mallory and baby Lucy, who all have a green thumb, as well as a hand, in the new venture Cloverhill Flowers.

“We are trying to be as sustainable as possible from field to vase,” Gordon said of the small-scale flower ‘farm’ based at Cloverhill — a century home built in 1903 that is being restored by Mallory and her husband.

Prior to having children, Gordon worked full-time as a floral designer and her daughter’s one-acre property in the country seemed like a great opportunity to revisit the art again, with a second eye trained on sustainability this go around.

A portion of all flower sales is going toward a long-standing environmental issue Gordon has been passionately committed to rectifying for decades.

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