There are many ways to love flowers, even among family members. Joan Ewer Thorndike, an organic flower farmer and mom, carries delphiniums in her arms as she walks from one of her greenhouses into a warehouse at Le Mera Gardens in Northwest Medford. Joan then talks about her late mother, Lily, who pulled herself away from her home garden 10 minutes before she was to be at her office in the United Nations Building in Santiago, Chile. How can you sell a flower, Lily would ask. How do you commercialize them, give them a monetary value? How do you part with them? Joan, whose family’s passion for flowers reaches back generations, had a clear answer: Her goal is to put more locally grown flowers into people’s hands. Read more at the link in our bio. lemeragardens 📹: Janet Eastman #organicflowers #flowersgardener #medfordoregon #medford #locallygrown #locallysources #smallbusiness #familybusiness