CSFA Celebrated California Agriculture Day
The California State Floral Association (CSFA) celebrated California Agriculture Day on Tuesday, March 19th on the West steps of the State Capitol! Mother Nature cooperated and it was a beautiful sunny day. Dozens of commodity and agriculture stakeholders had booths to offer samples and inform legislative staff and the public on the value of California’s agriculture community.
Floral bouquets were again the highlight for many Ag Day attendees. Special thanks to our Ag Day Co-Chairs, Marty Espe, and Greg Staby from Flora Fresh, Inc. for all their efforts in procuring the tremendous volume of gorgeous product that was given to each attendee anxiously waiting in line.
CDFA Secretary of Agriculture, Karen Ross, kicked off the festivities with a warm welcome and emphasized the importance of our youth in agriculture today and into the future. California’s First Partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, shared words of praise, pride and optimism about California agriculture. Judy Culbertson, Ag in the Classroom, received a proclamation at this year’s event honoring her many years of service to California agriculture and celebrating her retirement.
CSFA would like to thank the following companies for sponsoring this event:
AUW Ventures
Flora Fresh, Inc.
Floral Resources Sacramento
Liezet at Bloom Decor
The California State Floral Association is deeply grateful to all the growers that donated their beautiful flowers for Ag Day including:
A & M Flowers
CamFlor
Dramm & Echter
Evergreen
FlorExpo
Glad-A-Way
Golden State Flowers
Green Valley Floral
Hilltop Flowers
Holland America
J Fisher Farms
Maximum Flowers
Mellano & Company
Rainbow Protea
Resendiz Brothers Protea Growers
The Sun Valley Group
West Flowers
A huge thank you to Michael A. Mellano and Mellano & Company for providing the CA Grown bouquets that were deliveredto each Legislative office.
Special thanks to Liezet at Bloom Décor for sponsoring lunch for over 95 students that designed and delivered flowers to the Capitol.
Thank you to the following schools and their amazing teachers and students that designed over 3000 bouquets which they passed out at the event: Elk Grove High School, Galt High School, Gridley High School, Las Plumas High School, Pleasant Grove High School, and Woodland High School.
A special shout out to Flora Fresh, Inc. and all the designers for creating the brilliant designs that graced the stage at the Capitol and the gorgeous designs that were delivered to the Governor, Lt. Governor, President Protem, Speaker of the Assembly, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Undersecretary of Agriculture.
Sincere gratitude to all the teachers and students for making the Presentation Bouquets for the program dignitaries.
A large contingency of FFA students were on hand to distribute bouquets to the Legislative offices and happy attendees. As the long lines confirmed, the tradition continues with the CSFA booth being the favorite choice of attendees as they waited to take home a bouquet of beautiful California grown flowers!
