TAMPA — This Mother's Day, shoppers can delight Mom and also do something good for the environment and people working on flower farms.
Sweetbay Supermarket is selling eco-friendly, sustainably grown flowers at its 72 stores in Florida and online for delivery nationwide.
"It's part of our commitment to sustainability," said Sweetbay spokeswoman Nicole LeBeau. "Mother's Day is a huge day to buy flowers, and we thought this would be a great time to start it."
Tampa-based Sweetbay partnered with OrganicBouquet.com to sell roses, mixed bouquets and other flowers under the True Green label. The flowers come from certified farms in California, Ecuador and Colombia that adhere to strict workplace standards and don't use harmful pesticides.
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