Sun Valley Group: American Grown Mother's Day 2014

2014 marks the 100th year that Mother's Day has been celebrated in the United States. On May 9th, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made the second Sunday in May officially "Mother's Day."

Sun Valley Lilies

This is one of the busiest times of year on our flower farm, as flowers are the traditional gift to give your mom. Over the course of the year our Sun Valley team is training for this event, we focus on operational excellence year-round, however, Mother's Day is where the "rubber hits the road."

Sun Valley Floral Farm

We are able to scale up our operations to meet demand due to a lot of planning and a lot of teamwork. At this time of year it's not unusual to see Lane DeVries on the "tulip line" laying flowers on the belt, which will get graded, sorted, sleeved and sent to mom's across the country.  It's not unusual to see Vince Thomas, our head of transportation and logistics, working on a shipping line in the warehouse. "All Hands on Deck" means literally "All Hands on Deck."

To read the rest of the story, please go to: Sun Valley Group's Flower Talk