Gardening add up into Xenia D’Ambrosi ’s life during a health crisis . While undergo breast cancer treatments , she began volunteering at local farm , include at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in Pocantico Hills , New York . Having her hands in the stain was therapeutic and ultimately , life-time - changing .
Xenia ’s diagnosis and treatment cooccur with the terminal months of a successful financial banking calling in commercial-grade real demesne finance . She leave behind that professional chapter in 2010 as her animation ’s demands change along with personal priorities . “ I was working all the clock time and I had two child at base who needed me , ” she explain .
Xenia and her family had move from the urban center to the outer suburbia of Westchester County , in Pound Ridge , New York , where they inherited a small backyard garden . “ I loved to be there on the weekend , " she recalls . " This is where I teach myself a raft about horticulture . ”
Today , Xenia lock her commercial flower farm on the acreage beleaguer a 1800’s - built farmhouse . The airfield , barn , and innovation studio apartment teem with life , DOE , and creativity . Pollinators burst and the improved health of the soil is good for the surroundings and for her business . Sweet Earth Co. produces a variety of flowers with a focus on peonies , lisianthus , and dahlias . “ These are premium varieties and they look so much better when grown locally and not shipped . ”
At the Slow Flowers Summit , Xenia will demonstrate bouquet - making and present her advice on cutting garden design . Her message : “ you could grow your own bouquet with a centering on growing and reduce from seasonal flowers . Your plan are fresh and originative when you develop the flowers yourself . ”
Clearly , the value of sustainable practices and good land stewardship are authoritative to this flowered enterpriser . Her fields are a toolbox from which she pulls to make bouquets and arrangement for bloom subscription member and for wedding ceremony and upshot node .
Her work , she says , is a sequel of her Puerto Rican inheritance . Her parent and relatives grew up farming . “ This history of land stewardship and land is engrained in my desoxyribonucleic acid . ” Through blossom , Xenia has launch her love and her calling — “ flowers have the power to bring delight , inhalation , and healing . ”
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