Help us provide flowers to long term care and hospice residents!

Each sponsorship provides one jar of fresh flowers to one local resident in hospice care or long term care. Read on to learn more about this special program, and the joy it’s bringing to our community. 

We know just how much joy fresh flowers can bring, and we also know that not everyone who needs a bit of extra joy has access to fresh flowers. Residents in nursing homes, long term care home and in hospice care benefit greatly from receiving bright and beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers, and we love being able to bring joy to people in these places. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, when everything felt so uncertain, we established a program —based on support from our community—to bring fresh flowers to residents in long term care and hospice care. 

Our company founder, Melanie, spent over 30 years in the long term care system with her mother Bev, navigating Bev’s journey through long term hospitalization, nursing home residency, and untimely, end of life care. Melanie is intimately familiar with the challenges that nursing home and hospice residents face, such as isolation and loneliness, that were only exacerbated by the pandemic over the last several years. Melanie also knew just how much of a difference receiving fresh flowers made for her own Mom, and for all of the other residents at the long term care home who would make weekly visits to Bev’s room to see what she had received. Flowers brightened the days for Bev, the residents who came to visit her room, and the staff who cared for her. 

In March of 2020, a year after Bev’s passing, with the pandemic and its resulting lockdowns in full force, Melanie felt compelled to find a way to reach out to residents in long term care —suddenly unable to receive any visitors—and let them know their community was still thinking of them. Our Give To The Community program was formed. 

We asked our community to sponsor flowers to send to long term care and hospice residents. We provided the flowers at a wholesale cost, with no markup, and we covered the the costs of the labour to design and distribute these flowers. 100% of the sponsorships we collected went towards fresh flower for these residents.

In just 2.5 years, with YOUR help, we’ve sent jars of flowers to over 3,000 residents in local LTC homes, hospital beds and hospices. The joy this program has generated is immeasurable!

At Christmas time each year we’ve relaunched this program, asking our community to sponsor Kalanchoe plants to send to local LTC residents. The response has been INCREDIBLE! Over the past two years we’ve been able to send community sponsored Kalanchoe plants to over 9,000 community members who are in LTC homes, hospital beds, recieving VON homecare, in shelters, or receiving support through the local food banks. Your help in making this program possible over the holidays has meant so much to us personally, and it’s made such an amazing impact in our community in spreading extra joy to those in need of it. 

For the last two years, we’ve been sending flowers weekly to Hospice Quinte, for the residents undergoing hospice care. These flowers haven’t previously been community supported, they’ve simply been a donation from our farm. 

We’re hoping that you’ll join us this year in sponsoring the weekly hospice drop offs. 

We drop off 8 jars of fresh flowers at Hospice Quinte every Friday. Each jar of flowers that you sponsor will go directly to a community member who is receiving hospice care, and all of the flowers are provided at a wholesale cost by us, with no markup or profit. Your support will allow us to continue to bring joy to the people in our community who need it most. 

PLEASE NOTE: We are not able to honour requests that gifts of flowers be distributed to specific long term care homes or residents. We work closely with community leaders to ensure that when we bring flowers to long term care homes, we are able to gift each resident with a bouquet so that no one is left out.

We are not a registered charity, and we will not be able to provide a tax receipt for income tax purposes. Donation amounts are based on the value before HST is added.