why flowers & sustainability
Photo (B) by:Meg Sperry
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With a background in design, playful creating & community art, District 2 Floral Studio serves Nebraska & Iowa as a cottage florist with designs rooted in sustainability & Slow Flowering practices, offering event work, installations, workshops, daily deliveries, New Moon monthly flower subscriptions, Celebration of Life pieces, custom flower preservation, along with home & corporate account design services.
Ways I approach being more gentle with our Earth as a floral designer -- whose supply source is gifted to us from Earth in the first place -- is recognizing how consumption intersects with other systems & issues. To support sustainable environmental, social & economic practices I source within a concentric model of local-seasonal farms (one of which I work at, Long Walk Farm) & beyond that from American/domestic farmers during dormant seasons (see some listed below). Doing so:
To lessen waste, vessels are pre-loved & designs are free of: single-use plastics (ie. foam, plastic picks, synthetic ribbon), & artificially bleached/"tinted", dyed or painted flora. Excess stem & foliage trimmings are composted through Hillside Solutions. I believe Love is Love. I believe all Black Lives Matter. I believe the deepest wisdom around environmental stewardship is led by Indigenous leaders. I believe in intersectionality & transformative justice in our community. I am committed to growing an inclusive connection with one another, Land & Water by offering gestures of beauty through a lens of environmental justice. I am grateful to be on this path with your support! Holly Lukasiewicz (she.her) |
Above: Anna Stoysich Pottery
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Land Acknowledgement
District 2 Floral Studio serves the community living on the beautiful Plains of Nebraska,
named from the Indigenous words Ñí Brásge ("flat water") describing the waters flowing through these ancestral lands of the
Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), Ponca, Lakota, Pawnee & Ioway people. Acknowledging this is a commitment to uproot the ongoing legacies of
settler colonialism through affirming relations with each other, the Land we live & Water that sustains us & from which flora is grown.
This is also home to Nebraska's Congressional District 2, where our name gets its inspiration.
named from the Indigenous words Ñí Brásge ("flat water") describing the waters flowing through these ancestral lands of the
Umoⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), Ponca, Lakota, Pawnee & Ioway people. Acknowledging this is a commitment to uproot the ongoing legacies of
settler colonialism through affirming relations with each other, the Land we live & Water that sustains us & from which flora is grown.
This is also home to Nebraska's Congressional District 2, where our name gets its inspiration.
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