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Make Mothers Heart Sing-Help An Animal With Flowers For A Cause

For Mothers Day Or Any Day-Flowers For A Cause So, here we go again into one of the busiest flower buying times of the year, and with it comes the pocket lining of billions for the big, foreign, conglomerates who supply the flower buying outlets online and off, chain & grocery stores and every gas station and street corner you see. These same conglomerates who continue to force our American farms out of business, fund foreign countries, and ruin the environments around the globe with their practices. And the human side? Sweat shop labor is not only in the clothing […]

Winning Flower Displays

This years theme was “Seasons Of The Hudson Valley” for the displays in the Horticulture building at the Duchess Fair. After much deliberation and thought I came up with a life size Mother Nature dressed in the 4 seasons and with the added feature of wings. The second display was a twist on the 150th anniversary of Saratoga Race Track. As everyone knows, all my displays must come with a subtle message involving the environment or its creatures. Mother Nature was made of all local grown botanicals with a sign promoting them along with the plight of our US flower […]

Sea Shepherd Society & The Seed: A Vegan Experience

While keeping up with two of our favorite benefits-Sea Shepherd of Whale Wars fame and our local Catskill Farm Sanctuary, I came across an event they will be set up (and speaking) at in New York City on Fathers Day weekend. The Seed: A Vegan Experience says it is “two days of vegan exploration await you. Nourish your taste buds on scrumptious plant-based food from New York’s famed vegan restaurants – the best in the world! Get inspired by world-renowned speakers, champion athletes, and top chefs. Provoke new thoughts withaward-winning films and their directors. Discover the vast market of cruelty-free products and services. And much more. The […]

Treasures And Flowers

As an artist and naturalist, I love what I do; but the reason I have done what I have with my business is a mission. A mission of awareness to give a voice to those living things that have none; and the hope some will hear it. In today’s world I know it is really hard to think beyond your own issues, and we all have a plate full- but there are some out there that need our attention more than our own. Our wild horses are one of those issues. In 1971, Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and […]

Flowers, Chocolates, and Dogs For A “Greyt” Valentine

Valentine’s Day is the day to recognize all of our loveys with flowers, candy…and bones. There are many kinds of loveys; young ones, old ones, distant ones, human to butterfly to greyhound. Each Holiday because we see so many people, we promote awareness to something we think everyone should know. And this time; it’s my promotion and it’s all about me and my friends! I just love “all about me”; and I am so excited this Valentine’s Day to be supporting Grey2K USA ; the nationwide greyhound rescue and advocacy organization. So, as a really cool idea for Valentine’s Day we have yummy, […]

Crates for Me and Turkeys

As a professional, racing greyhound (or rather a now happy “reposing” greyhound), I had a different upbringing than most of my friends. As a puppy I quickly saw that most of my days would be spent in a carrier and a crate. Kennel to track and back again. I of course wasn’t aware that this was not the normal life of all animals; I thought everyone lived like that! Who knew? So when Lynn told me about the animals raised for our food, I immediately identified. Crates,crates, and more crates. Being the Thanksgiving holiday affair is coming; I started wondering […]

Saving Wolves on Valentine’s Day-My White Knight

As I helped Lynn create our Valentine window promotion I began to wonder …because I know we always have a meaning to every display on Holidays. I suspected what was coming because we recently went to see a rescued, white wolf; and was he ever handsome-and was I ever smitten, to say the least. The display was a life size wolf and pups that just seemed to be looking calmly-out at the passersby. I wondered about my wild relatives-were they all handsome? I wondered if they are happy, I wondered if they are safe like me, and I wondered […]

Sundance Film Festival & Flowers

Every January the Sundance Film Festival is held in Park City, Utah. In fact, the photo of myself and ‘Hoot’ the owl on the About Us page was taken there. It is a melting pot of the newest and brightest short films, documentaries, and motion pictures. A perfect setting for freethinking, nature, and the arts. Utah itself is awe inspiring; a treasure of national parks and wildlands. Three environmental films up for competition this year to watch for: Wasteland-a documentary that chronicles a photographer to the world’s largest landfill and the pickers who sift through it; recycling their lives […]