SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Karen Plarisan's interest in "slow flowers" came naturally. She was sick of pesticide exposure.
"I thought how nice it would be to work with flowers without all that white powdery stuff from pesticides," said the El Dorado Hills, Calif., florist.
As more people become focused on locally grown "slow food," slow-flower advocates point to the center of the table: Where did that bouquet come from?
"It's like the farm-to-fork movement," she said. "It's become so huge. Flowers are right behind food now."
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