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The Fair Trade Certified label on your bouquet means that flower workers, most of whom are women, can put food on their tables, send their children to school, invest in community development, and use sustainable farming methods.

For every flower that we are able to sell, a child is able to study. Here in Ecuador, there are so many children that do not study. For this reason, it’s very important to buy Fair Trade flowers, because our children are our future.

--Mariana Vasquez, Hoja Verde Flower Farm

Fair Trade is an innovative business model that certifies that the products you buy are part of an equitable system of trade that produces real improvements in the lives of millions of people around the world. By creating the conditions for communities to become genuine participants in global trade, communities can build truly sustainable environmental, economic, and social practices. A portion of every purchase you make goes directly to a community development fund for workers, who collectively decide how to use the money. Projects have included scholarships for children, housing, and micro-enterprises. Best of all, Fair Trade Certified growers are caring and careful stewards of the land, increasing the use of natural pest controls and reducing water and energy use, so that their children and their children’s children will be able to live healthy, fruitful lives.