A little over a week to Valentine’s Day, and Sun Valley is humming at top speed. Being relatively new to the Sun Valley team; this my first Valentine’s Day on the farm and it is truly something to behold. In Arcata we have been literally working around the clock picking tulips and lilies for Valentine’s Day orders.
At Sun Valley one of our mottos is “…creating the best floral experience through operational excellence.” This is the time of year when you see what operational excellence really means. We have a huge capacity for growing and picking flowers, this is the time of year when we get to flex all the muscles we have built over the years.
Out in the greenhouses, the tulips are coming in fast and furious. Crews are picking them as quickly as they mature. Tulips get pulled out of the soil and put in crates, and then a team member drives them right into the grading and bunching warehouse. Here they go on conveyor belts and get sorted by size and color, then bunched and sleeved for various customers. This is space is designed for high production, and that is what is happening now.
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