Hi Everyone,

I hope you all got to enjoy the glorious weather over the weekend and celebrate the beginning of the summer season! I love this time of year. The warm weather, the vegetable gardens and the flowers, and just spending more time outdoors, makes me so happy! Here is a photo of my Lupine Flowers. They have taken off and keep spreading!

My Guest this Week on PRN is Jaclyn Rutigliano, the Co-Founder of Hometown Flower Co, and the Co-Host of June 17th’s Workshop, Along with Slow Food North Shore!

Jaclyn Rutigliano is the co-founder and CEO of Hometown Flower Collective, a Long Island-based sustainable floral design studio and pop-up flower truck. After 15+ years working as a publicist and branding/marketing expert, working with start-ups, non-profits, travel companies, and more, she started designing flowers as a form of stress relief, giving her a way to reconnect with nature and have a method of creative expression. It was then that she realized she had inherited the “floral gene”, following in the footsteps of her parents and grandparents as a third generation florist. Having previously worked with the slow fashion movement, she applied her learnings about ethical and sustainable sourcing and responsible business, and became committed to launching a sustainable floral design studio, exclusively working with locally-grown flowers. She launched Hometown Flower Co. alongside her husband, Marc Iervolino, on Mother’s Day 2019, the biggest day of the year for flowers, with a commitment to changing the status quo of our expectations for and relationship with flowers.

I hope you can join us on Thursday as we learn more about the Slow Flower Movement, and hear more about the upcoming workshop that she will be hosting on June 17th, along with Slow Food North Shore!

If you are interested in joining the Slow Flower Workshop, please send an email to info@slowfoodnorthshore.org

Space is limited, so don’t wait! You can pay by check or through PayPal. The PayPal account is under the email address of info@slowfoodnorthshore.org

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Bhavani

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