Our Mission - Inspiring Joy One Stem At A Time

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Urban specialty cut flower farming is about:

• growing in small spaces with maximum flower production
• having the product grown/produced as close to the customer as possible.
• using sustainable methods and fewer resources which help the environment
• small businesses like MetroStems helping to improve the local economy
• increasing the supply of locally grown flowers inside the USA
• reducing supply of imported flowers grown with bad labor practices, pesticides and herbicides.
• giving customers easier access to the beautiful flowers they want.

Typically, flower gardening is aesthetic driven and adds visual beauty and enjoyment to your property.  Urban flower farming however is all about growing in really small spaces - at scale - with the intention of selling what you grow.  

By definition a micro farm is a grow space 5 acres or less.   Seriously?  Have you been to the NYC metro area and more specifically, Bayonne, NJ?   New Jersey may be called the "Garden State" but when you're living in a dense urban city with only 7 feet between houses, having a really big garden let alone a flower farm seems crazy! 

The cut flower market in the U.S. was estimated at $7.7 billion USD in the year 2020 and 95% of the cut flowers people in the USA purchase are imported from outside the USA and are required to be sprayed with pesticides and herbicides for disease and pests.  

Just think about all the resources used to ship/store/transport/treat that 95% of flowers entering the USA market and then the additional resources to move them out to florists, retail venues and floral designers.   The "locally grown in - not flown in" movement was born out of our collective concern for the planet.  We hope you join and support MetroStems by purchasing your specialty cut flowers from local growers and florists who make an effort to use local growers.

Do you own a tractor?  Nope.  What about a motorized tiller?  Nope. Of course you have  a seeder?  Definitely not.  One goal of micro urban flower farming is to use as few resources as possible to produce the most high quality stems/flowers you can.

We grow over 4000 stems per season in a 20ft by 32ft space using 10 well constructed raised beds.  I can barely fit down the 12 inch wide walkways between the beds so, trust me, there's no tractor or motorized tiller.  But I promise there's a lot of hard work and passion that goes into growing every beautiful bloom here at MetroStems.