{"id":176409,"date":"2026-03-03T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176409\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:32:09","slug":"padme-flower-farm-brings-u-pick-flowers-to-the-warehouse-arts-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176409\/","title":{"rendered":"Padme Flower Farm brings U-pick flowers to the Warehouse Arts District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">After volunteering on organic farms across the country, including a hunger garden in Asheville that donated all of its produce to food banks, she went on to found the San Francisco-based garden education nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.growingtogetherprojects.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Growing Together<\/a>, serving as its director from 2013 to 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">About a year ago, she began experimenting with flowers. And what started as a small pilot quickly turned into something bigger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cOnce I started growing flowers, it became obvious,\u201d Nair tells St. Pete Rising. \u201cWith vegetables and fruit, there\u2019s functionality because you eat them. But flowers are pure beauty. They connect people to nature in a different way. People light up around flowers. There\u2019s creativity in arranging them. They\u2019re art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">At Padme Flower Farm, everything is grown by hand, without harmful pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">According to Nair, more than 70% of flowers sold in the U.S. are imported, often grown with heavy chemical inputs before being shipped long distances. Padme\u2019s blooms, by contrast, are grown on-site in St. Pete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After volunteering on organic farms across the country, including a hunger garden in Asheville that donated all of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-176409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}