Ms. Teresa Sabankaya This is Me

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1. 1. www.montereybayrosesociety.org

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   Published on: 6/7/2008   Last Visited: 8/14/2008

   A caravan of cars then transported many of us to a garden belonging to Teresa Sabankaya in Bonny Doon, owner of the Bonny Doon Garden Company in downtown Santa Cruz.

2. 2. www.bonnydoongardenco.com

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   Published on: 9/29/2007   Last Visited: 10/3/2007

   4:15-4:45 Teresa Sabankaya, owner & founder, The Bonny Doon Garden Company- demonstrates basic floral design and bringing your garden indoorsGet a complimentary organic Ecuadorian Rose with the purchase of your book!
   
   Join us for a fun-filled floral extravaganza on Squid Row Alley!

3. 3. The Bonny Doon Garden Company | Press Room

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   Published on: 6/1/2007   Last Visited: 6/30/2008

   Teresa Sabankaya, owner of The Bonny Doon Garden Co., in Santa Cruz, Calif., was featured in Flower Confidential and has made organic flowers a priority for her business, which she purchased in 2003 after designing out of her home.She offers organic and Veriflora-certified flowers as well as conventionally grown flowers, and she says she sees such demand rising.She grows many of her flowers organically on her own plot of land in Bonny Doon, Calif. Other organic flowers she sources primarily from small growers and at farmers' markets.In August 2006, she was approached by local natural foods grocer New Leaf Markets to provide bouquets.The market didn't specifically require organic flowers though Ms. Sabankaya says that was her goal.She has worked with one of her local growing partners who agreed to plant for her 10 acres of organic flowers, including stocks, bells-of-Ireland, Queen Anne's lace and Asiatic lilies."The only stumbling block that I've ever had, besides the challenge of growing organically itself," Ms. Sabankaya says, "was variety."While some customers seek out organic flowers, she says for others it's simply an added benefit.And some may not see the value."I still get the customer every now and then who will be looking through a bucket of flowers, and I'll have my organic sign on it, and they'll say, ‘What does it really matter?You're not eating them,'" she describes.