Flower access and community care

How we started out

Pantry Posies came to life in the valley of a small rural town in the White Mountains of New Hampshire when founder Janie, a life-long florist, left her career in clinical mental health care for a path more focused in community care. 

After becoming involved with local pantries and food access during the early pandemic, seeing the disparities in care and hearing testimonies of hardships from clients and patrons, gears starting going on just how she could blend things together -by providing ethically grown bouquets to the patrons of the local pantries to in turn support their mental health and make an already hard experience just a bit more normalized in a world that stigmatizes just about everything. 

Flowers in Care

With short experience in cultivating and over 20 years worth of knowledge in the floral business, she set plans in motion during the pandemic. Summer of 2021, she planted 400 sunflower seeds in her front yard and deemed that ‘the pantry patch’. Through the short mountain summer of 2021, Pantry Posies provided 32 jars of mixed arranged flowers and over 50 bouquets of wrapped flowers to two area food pantries all grown right in Janie’s yard.

The reception and buzz from the pantry patrons was resound. Word caught on about what Pantry Posies was all about and other farmers and flower growers linked in to widen pantry distributions in 2022, swelling a movement to further the practice of equity and inclusion in this small mountain region.

In 2023, due to popular inquiry and in consideration of equity and sustainability, Pantry Posies became established as a socially responsible small business and ramped production extending sales of fresh flowers out to the general public. Continuing into the 2024 season, supporters have the opportunity to purchase fresh garden blooms and place custom and special events orders. Pantry Posies in-turn contributes a portion of the proceeds from the sale of these item to support local food and flower access in the White Mountains, NH.

Building community relationships to bridge access to flowers and their subsequent benefits is the foundation of the work of Pantry Posies-access to beauty and joy, no matter the current circumstance.

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What we grow

Spring Tulips 

Mixed annuals 

Summer sunflowers

Spring Tulips

Summer Flowers

Community Care

“The pantry posies are just the right size. A little something to put there to make it feel like home. They brighten our guests’ days!”

- Corine S., Pantry Coordinator