Whipstone Farm
Shanti Rade, PauldenShanti initially sparked her interest in farming through a high school internship on a farm in Colorado. After completing a degree in Agroecology from Prescott College (Prescott, AZ), Shanti was hired as the manager of the Prescott Farmers Market. Twenty years and three kids later, she and her partner Cory farm approximately 18 acres of crops, still selling at the same farmers market, through their CSA program, and through many wholesale outlets. Whipstone Farm is dedicated to sustainable and regenerative farming practices adapted to the high desert climate they call home.
Shanti began growing flowers over ten years ago and has slowly transitioned more of the farm's production from vegetables to flowers. She helped launch the Arizona Flower Collective along with a dedicated group of flower supporters. She served for 6 years on the board of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers (a national trade organization), and for many years on the Prescott Farmers Market and Yavapai County Cooperative Extension boards. Shanti is passionate about sustainability, on-farm research and farm resiliency. She is currently working on collaborative grant projects in soil health, cover cropping, and farm profitability.
Cave Creek Flower Farm
Cave Creek Flower Farm is a small, women-owned flower farm located in the foothills of the Sonoran Desert in Cave Creek, AZ. Melissa and Hillary, long-time friends and founders, love growing flowers within the desert ecosystem. Drawing from backgrounds in biology, wildlife conservation, engineering, and regulatory work, they bring both science and heart to their growing practices.
The farm specializes in desert-adapted and drought-tolerant flowers grown without pesticides and with a focus on sustainability and regenerative land practices. Their blooms are well-suited for the unique climate of the Southwest, offering florists and makers high quality floral that also supports the desert and its inhabitants.
Melissa and Hillary are active volunteers; CCFF sponsors their local school district mountain bike teams and a nonprofit trail stewardship organization, grounding their farm deeply in the community.
Hillary & Melissa, Cave Creek
Ruby Jewel Flowers
Camilla Sexton, Show LowCamilla started Ruby Jewel Flowers in the fall of 2019 and began selling the first flowers in 2020. She grows on about 1/4 acre in Show Low, Arizona. The farm flowers are sold through a weekly subscription, at farmers markets, wholesale to local florists and occasional small weddings. Flowers begin blooming in late March with narcissus and continue until early October, ending with dahlias. Camilla has a passion for growing and finds joy in sharing her flowers with her community.
Wild Heart Flower Farm
Kate Watters, RimrockKate Watters is a farmer–florist, artist, and poet, and the founder of Wild Heart Farm in Arizona’s Verde Valley. With 15 years of experience as a botanist and seven years running a farm-based wedding design studio, she now grows native, perennial, and drought-adapted flowers using permaculture and regenerative practices to expand the ecological diversity available to Southwestern florists. Wild Heart Farm also serves as a space for community-supported education and healing. In 2025, Kate was awarded a grant through the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education(Western SARE) to research native plants as viable cut flowers for a more resilient regional floral economy.
Flower to Table
Shannon Constance, ScottsdaleShannon Constance first began working with flowers while attending college, when she was a florist in a local shop in Flagstaff, Arizona. After graduation, she set flowers aside to pursue a career as a graphic designer, but 25 years later—after a period of personal change—she returned to flowers to build work that felt lasting and grounded, and started Flower to Table in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Flower to Table focuses on wholesale, locally grown flowers for florists and designers across the Valley. Shannon grows seasonal annual flowers while steadily building plantings of perennials and native species to better support the desert ecosystem. Because perennials and natives take time to establish, expanding these crops is an ongoing priority alongside each season’s annual harvest.
Shannon is committed to strengthening Arizona’s regional flower community through collaboration with the Arizona Flower Collective, providing high-quality, seasonal stems that reflect the climate and character of Arizona.
Cultivated LLC
Kristin Parsons, Scottsdale and Alpine
Kristin has been growing food, fruit trees, herbs, and flowers on a half-acre (or less) for the last 22 years here in Arizona. This year, she has expanded by adding 9 acres of high elevation farmland! So you’ll see her involved as more of a market volunteer than a grower this year while she’s planting and building on the new acreage! Building is not new to her: with a design degree from Kansas State and trained in Permaculture, Kristin lays out growing spaces in a regenerative way, utilizing guilds of fruit trees and forest garden type plantings. She grows without using any pesticides or herbicides, and preserves the harvests from her farm to feed her family and share with friends. When time allows, she will offer consultations for edible landscape designs and even occasionally do a full design, but with her son in sports and the farm building, it might be a while before those can be added back into the schedule! She is honored to be a part of the floral community, coming together to build this collective. From years of wishes and whispers, to becoming official, to maturing in market and growth, the Arizona Flower Collective is so special to Kristin and she cannot wait to bring new varieties to the market soon!