By Thea Folls

Skaneateles, NY February 2, 2010 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, has just announced Folls Flower Farm has been selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Award for flowers and florists.  The annual Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,00 newlyweds.

Folls Flower Farm is among the top five percent of all wedding vendors in the WeddingWire community which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada.  Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer.  “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Folls Flower Farm is among the very best florist within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings.  We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Award.

By: Thea Folls Folls Flower Farm

Once again this year, we are making and selling green centerpieces for the holidays. We have four sizes from $25.00 to $45.00 and all feature balsam, cedar, pine, boxwood and juniper with pine cones, rose hips and one or more candles. Twenty percent of the profit will be donated to the Local food pantry, the Salvation Army and to FICNA.

You can call us at 784-5501 or visit the website at www.follsflowers.com for more information. Thanks and have a great holiday season.

Contributed by Thea Folls / Folls Flower Farm

Thanks to all our customers for giving us another year to bring you flowers from our farm.  Without your support we would not be flower farmers!  It was a difficult year with all the rain but it has been nice to have a long fall to put the garden in order.  Once again we will be offering Christmas centerpieces, bouquets, garlands and wreaths to liven up your homes for the holidays.  We will be donating 20% of our profits this year to FINCA and the local food pantries. 

Our options include a single, double, triple or pillar green centerpiece for $25.00, $35.00, and $45.00 for the triple and pillar.  Candles may be red or white.  We are also offering floral centerpieces for delivery the week of Christmas.  Bouquets start at $50.00, centerpieces at $65.00.  Please call for details 315-784-5501.  If you are interested in ordering garlands or wreaths I will need orders placed as soon as possible to give you the best pricing.

 May the joy and blessings of the season be with you and yours.  We thank you again and hope to see you soon!  ~Hal & Thea Folls

Contributed by: Thea Folls / follsflowerfarm@yahoo.com

Hal and Thea from Folls Flower Farm are very happy to report that we have collected $340.00 for Oxfam America and $1240.00 for the Food Bank of Central New York.  It was very nice to have friends helping with this project and we would like to recognize them at this time.

Many thanks to Alexandra Congel for providing a generous donation to cover the cost of all the greens for this project.  Many thanks to Marilyn Matthys for providing the rose hips.  Thanks to Kate and Mary Benson, Meg O’Connell, Amy  and Erica Nye, Maddie Legg, Rose Ryan and Janet McSweeney for cutting greens, wiring pine cones, tying ribbons and working in the cold shop to help make the centerpieces.  Special thanks to Jesse and Joshua Walz for collecting pine cones in the park.

Contributed by Thea Folls / Folls Flower Farm

Visit us: 4396 Harter Rd. Owasco, NY 13021 Phone us: (315-784-5501)

In an effort to help feed many hungry families this holiday season Folls Flower Farm will be selling holiday greens centerpieces and donating 100% of the profits to The Food Bank of Central New York and to Oxfam International. We are calling our project Flowers for Food. I expect that the cost for supplies to make each centerpiece will be about 33% of the total cost. The amount going to the Food Bank or to Oxfam would be the remainder. In order to minimize taxes that need to be paid I will ask for two checks, one payable to Folls Flowers and one to the Food Bank or Oxfam. This will also give you a tax deduction. I will collect payment when the centerpieces are picked up or delivered. We hope to be able to conduct flower sales throughout the year in a continuing effort to help feed the world’s hungry. All centerpieces will be made with mixed evergreens, berries, pine cones and German statice. Candles will be smokeless and dripless. Our offerings this holiday season will include:

Single candle centerpiece with red or white taper – $25.00
Double candle centerpiece with red or white tapers – $35.00
Triple candle centerpiece with red or white tapers – $45.00
Pillar candle centerpiece with red or white 6″ candle – $45.00