Gen Z and millennials embrace sustainable alternatives to imported fresh flowers

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY and KIKI SIDERIS
Instead of hiring a florist for her October wedding, Emily Day decided to grow her own flowers in her front yard in Calgary, Canada — a creative challenge that turned into a lesson on the hidden climate costs of the global flower industry. She said her homegrown arrangements were just as beautiful as store-bought ones and cost a fraction of the price.
Day and her fiance built garden boxes out of wooden shipping containers in March and filled them