{"id":4677,"date":"2022-02-11T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fumagallidanilo.com\/uncategorized\/eco-sustainable-valentines-day\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:48:01","slug":"eco-sustainable-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fumagallidanilo.com\/en\/news-en-2\/eco-sustainable-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-sustainable Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>&#8220;From you, men,&#8221; said the little prince, &#8220;grow five thousand roses in the same garden &#8230; and they don&#8217;t find what they&#8217;re looking for&#8230;&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than <strong>200 million roses<\/strong> are grown each year specifically for <strong>Valentine&#8217;s<\/strong> Day.<br \/>\nThe problem is that their natural blooming season would be from mid-spring through fall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thus, to meet the commercial needs of this day, they are grown <strong>intensively<\/strong> in greenhouses (with great waste of water and the use of various chemicals).<\/p>\n<p>Most of these roses, in addition, come from<strong>Africa<\/strong> or <strong>South America<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the massive <strong><sub>CO2<\/sub> emissions<\/strong> to refrigerate the flowers and transport them throughout Europe and North America by airplanes and refrigerated trucks, more and more areas of rainforest are being bulldozed to make way for rose plantations.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, cheap labor is not protected in any way, neither from the point of view of social rights nor from the point of view of health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, a rose will sell for an average of 5\u20ac on Valentine\u2019s Day.<br \/>\nGiven their utterly inadequate wages, farmworkers\u2014and especially female farmworkers (since most are women)\u2014would need about two weeks to afford a flower they themselves had picked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that growing these roses is in no way environmentally sustainable, not to mention that they are literally thrown away after a few days.<\/p>\n<p>We invite, therefore, a more conscious choice for Valentine&#8217;s Day gifts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Favor seasonal flowers such as <strong>cyclamens<\/strong> and <strong>camellias<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Choose an original, but still gorgeous, <strong>bouquet of vegetables<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>directly plant a tree like those in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treedom.net\/it\/organization\/fumagalli-danilo-srl\/event\/fumagalli-danilo-forest\"><br \/>\n  <strong>Fumagalli Forest<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a> in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treedom.net\/it\/\"><br \/>\n  <strong>Treedom<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact us <a href=\"https:\/\/fumagallidanilo.com\/contatti\/\">HERE<\/a> to find out how to be part of our project or purchase the <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pomnatura.it\/frutta-e-verdura\/13522-box-san-valentino-3490.html\"><br \/>\n  <strong>Valentine&#8217;s Box<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a> on our e-commerce website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From you, men,&#8221; said the little prince, &#8220;grow five thousand roses in the same garden &#8230; and they don&#8217;t find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.1 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - 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