Our Mission

To provide the highest-quality, most diverse offering of Michigan-grown cut flowers and foliage with the convenience of an aggregated marketplace and delivery service. We aim to grow the market and the movement for locally-grown flowers and foliage and facilitate relationships and education between farmers, florists, and clientele. Just as the local food movement and the shop local movement have made vast improvements in the sustainability of our communities, the local flower movement is another piece that enlivens that beautiful community quilt!

What We Do, Where We Came From

The Michigan Flower Growers' Cooperative started in the summer of 2016 with a series of conversations among flower growers in the greater Ann Arbor area about how best to serve the needs of growers through marketing and distribution of their products to the wholesale market. This Grower owned and operated model brought Growers from Southeast Michigan and Northern Ohio together in one place to sell wholesale and retail flowers, foliage, succulents and other ornamental plants to florists, floral designers, wholesale distributors and individuals who wanted fresh, high quality local products at competitive prices. In 2023, the Growers decided to move to a Collective model, making the business more nimble and able to better serve both their Grower Members and their Buyers, and therefore the community.

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contact

info@miflowercoop.com

Location

Washtenaw Food Hub
4175 Whitmore Lake Rd
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Market Hours

2024 Season Dates:

April 3 - October 23

Market Floor Hours:

Wednesdays 8am - 11am

How to shop

We operate an online store for advance orders, and day-of shopping at our Wednesday marketplace. A Buyers’ Pass is required to shop both online and in-person.

Are you an industry professional?

To shop our weekly market and online store at wholesale prices, florists, retailers, floral designers and event planners must purchase a Wholesale Buyers’ Pass. Reserve a pass early to ensure a whole growing season of gorgeous local blooms! (MI Sales Tax Exemption form required.)

Are you a DIY bride, lover of flowers, or planning an event and looking to purchase locally-grown flowers?

Individuals may purchase a Day Pass for one or multiple dates during our market season.

Who We Are

MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ
LUELLA ACRES

My original farm mentor once told me that food satisfies our hunger, while flowers satisfy our heart. It is with this bit of wisdom I set out to establish a farmstead in 2013 in Dexter, Michigan. A decade earlier, a summer job at the MSU Student Organic Farm turned into a life long passion for glorious, glamorous dirt. From there I spent several seasons in New England, earning my chops with some tough-as-nails farmers growing vegetables year round in Massachusetts and Vermont.  Now, back in the community where I grew up, flowers are growing everywhere on my own farm named for my two daughters.

Luella Acres is rooted in our passion for bringing the beauty of the outside in.  We are committed to growing practices that are safe and healthy for our family, our customers, and the earth.  We grow unique and stellar flowers and foliage for designers and florists as well as for our own whimsical farm inspired designs.

Green Things Farm Collective

Green Things Farm Collective is a certified organic farm located just outside of Ann Arbor. We grow vegetables, and flowers using primarily no-till practices with the aim of building soil and improving the biodiversity of land that was previously industrially farmed. The product of these practices is lush, beautiful bounty for our local community and livable wages for our farmers. 

GTFC offers wedding and event flowers, a U-pick flower CSA, bouquets at the Ann Arbor and Farmington farmers markets, as well as flowers and seasonal dried flower wreaths at our farmstand. 

JULIA GRIFFIN
WILLA ROSE FLORAL

I started farming ten years ago. What began as a job to learn to grow food while finishing my degree in nutrition, quickly turned into the beginning of my love affair with flowers. I started my farm and design studio in the heart of Detroit in 2018 and two years ago moved our operation to Dexter in order to expand. We sell at farmers markets, wholesale, our farmstand, a CSA and specialize in wedding and event floral design. I love what I do and I hope that shows in every flower and bouquet I sell. 

BETH FOLEY
BELLA TERRA FLOWER FARM

Established in 2017, we are a small, family-run business growing the highest quality cut flowers on our one-acre farm in Ann Arbor using organic and regenerative farming practices. We specialize in unique, heirloom and specialty blooms that you simply can’t find from a traditional wholesaler. 

Bella Terra literally means “beautiful earth”, which is what we strive for. We take extra measures to heal the land, focusing on soil fertility, biodiversity and minimizing our carbon footprint. We use as little plastic as possible, especially single-use plastics.  We create beauty for the human species while minimizing harm to other species. And we always leave some blooms in the field for the pollinators, essential to our food source. Our goal is to leave our small patch of Earth a little better than we found it.  

Kristin van vliet
daymoon gardens

When a summer job at Michigan’s first designated CSA, Community Farm of Ann Arbor, revealed a passion for sustainable agriculture, I drew on my life long love of flowers to develop the flower program there after 15 years of growing veggies. 

  When the Great Spirits and Stars aligned to make the dream of owing my own farm a reality, DayMoon Gardens was dug by hand and established in 2020. Utilizing the Biodynamic method learned at Community Farm, I follow the rhythms of nature to work in harmony with all the organisms and forces in the ecosystem to grow glorious flowers for both people and pollinators. 

martha thawnghmung
the big bloom

I rarely do the “smart” thing. I am more of a jump in enthusiastically person. My heart honestly, reverently guides me. Growing up in the remote northern mountains of Burma bound me to the flora of this earth.  As an exploration of what else there might be to life, I wholeheartedly set out to grow flowers in 2019. 

 The Big Bloom is a floral practice of reverence with my fingertips. The garden is where I believe I can slow down enough to savor the delicious, powerful nature of this ephemeral, sentient life. Every flower I grow and touch is an act of faith worthy of wonder, worthy of marvel.

abie baldwin
foxtail flower farm

Inspired by a love of nature and design, Foxtail Flower Farm, endeavors to grow the finest flowers and foliages for you;  to use in creating your own distinctive works of art.

Founded in 2018, at my childhood home,  this farm brings me back to the place that my life’s passions were created.   Some of my earliest and fondest memories are of playing outside, in the field where our flowers now bloom.

 For many years I was a Landscape Architect; learning how to utilize form, texture, color and movement to create dynamic spaces for people to enjoy.  Eventually I craved a new space for myself; one that would fill me up and utilize many of those same principles.  It was then, I stumbled upon flower farming and floristry.  Six years (and a whole lot of learning) later, my interest in nature and design drives us to produce some of the most beautiful & unique local floral products in Southern Michigan.

Lis Thomas

Bloomtown

Bloomtown is an urban flower farm on Detroit's east side. We care about more than just flowers - we're really into providing ecosystem services to reduce stormwater impacts, landscaping for climate change, building healthy soil, and encouraging pollinator regeneration. In addition to selling with MFGC, Bloomtown offers subscriptions, bulk flowers, and small events. I have a background in soil science and work as an environmental consultant when I'm not on the farm. 

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