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AS A FARM PARTNER
AS A FARM PARTNER
AS A FARM PARTNER
Interested in selling wholesale flowers through Stemz? Apply to be a Stemz Farm Partner today! Read below for details on Annual Membership verses an On Demand status with Stemz.
Stemz is a 100% Regionally Grown Cut-Flower Wholesaler that was created to support the regional flower movement and let you as a grower actually focus on your farm. Founded together by a farmer and a floral designer, we strive to fill the gaps of this industry by building a convenient, trusted way to sell flowers to the best buyers consistently.
Consider this your breathing room needed to grow flowers exceptionally well- with a sustainable, profitable sales channel to depend on.
Learn more about how partnering with Stemz may be a fitting strategic sales channel for your farm!
“The Stemz team has been so friendly and helpful during my first year selling to a wholesale company. This is my sixth year growing and selling flowers and since they have made the process so easy and profitable, I’ve changed my whole business model to sell 95% of my flowers through them. I would suggest to anyone growing flowers to give this platform a try, from their seasonal forecasts, variety suggestions, outstanding team and fair pricing, it’s a great way to make your farm profitable.”
Stemz not in your area yet? Let us know where you’re located. Stemz’ vision is to quickly expand through regional distribution hubs on a national scale. We hope to work with you and your neighboring farms soon!
Join our Farm Partner Community
For a consistent sales outlet throughout a year (spanning all crops), experienced staff support and data-driven guidance on what to grow in future seasons, an Annual Farm Partner Membership is the best fit for your farm.
Key Benefits
Requirements
An on-demand relationship with Stemz may be a better fit for farmers who focus on crops that flush once a year on a larger scale, or who grow highly demanded crops that our current farm partners cannot meet the demand for on a peak season week.
On-demand farmers typically sell to Stemz in larger quantities 1-5 times a year, and are not looking for any support or trend forecasting guidance.
Examples of On-Demand Crops:
Flowering Branches, Peonies, Spirea, Dahlias, Winter Berries
Requirements
You sell something that our Annual Farm Partners do not currently sell or do not sell in enough quantities to fulfill demand on a specific week.
Product delivery to the Winston-Salem Distribution Hub (or any Satellite Hub with an added 5% Cost-Share)
6% Admin Fee
Stemz creates designer-influenced Trend Forecast Reports for our Farm Partners seasonally.
This helps communicate floral designers’ trending needs so that flower farmers’ supply is incredibly relevant and desirable to florists in the upcoming season.
We feel this is a key component to the longterm growth strategy of the local flower economy.
Simply fill out our online application form. We’re always excited to potentially work with a new farm! While we don’t have a requirement for experience, most of our farmers have been growing flowers for several years before they apply. Accepted farm partners pay $200 for annual membership and must sell at least $6,000 annually to meet partner requirements.
*Note: There is a $25 application fee to help cover administrative costs. Please allow 2 weeks for application review.
An application process gives Stemz the ability to thoughtfully balance farmer supply with buyer demand, so that all members are successful and healthy in sales.
If we feel like you’d be a great fit to work with Stemz, but currently have ample farmer partners supplying the same crops, we would invite you to join our farmer waitlist. This way, as things shift or as demand increases, we will reach out to revisit your application.
Yes, if you are accepted, you can initially begin anytime of the year at a prorated annual membership cost. All Annual Farm Partner Memberships are then renewed and billed in January each year at the full membership price.
Stemz Farm Partners sell their products in two different ways to Stemz buyers. Each requires a different level of advance harvest prediction.
Priority Advance Orders: Through this guaranteed pre-sales method, farmers predict harvest anywhere from 10 days to months in advance of product drop-off. These estimated harvests are not a perfect prediction process but rather based on probability, crop plans, growing years of data, and farmer intuition.
Live Field Inventory: Through this potential sales method via a weekly e-commerce site, farmers predict availability and list anywhere from 1-7 days in advance of product drop-off. Farmers who list as early as possible usually sell the most.
Stemz functions as a hybrid between a local flower co-op and a traditional cut-flower wholesaler. Our goal is to make selling flowers an easy and profitable process for farmers, and our hope is that this hybrid method genuinely answers the needs of the farmer most effectively.
Ways we’re similar to a co-op:
Ways we’re similar to a traditional wholesaler:
Stemz has always incorporated flexibility for the farmer as a key, intentional feature of membership. You can make your own schedule as a farmer as long as you meet the overall requirement of $6,000 minimum annual sales. This includes but is not limited to…
Each week, you will receive a cut-list. Simply harvest & bring sold items to any below product-drop locations.
Note: If you utilize a satellite hub for product drop-off, a 5% cost-share is applied to help cover the cost of Stemz’ large vehicle use and staff to provide a more convenient drop location option to farmers.
Stemz not in your area yet? Let us know where you’re located. Stemz’ vision is to quickly expand through regional distribution hubs on a nationwide scale. We hope to work with you and your neighboring farms soon!
Stemz’ buyers are primarily experienced floral designers looking for fresh, high quality, specialty cut-flowers. Designers are more attuned than your average farmer’s market buyer, but they’re also a bigger, more committed buyer too. So in order to excite and impress our floral designers week to week and provide consistency in product across farms, Stemz guides farmers via thoughtful product grading, helpful photos, and our Harvest Consistency Guide.
Nope! Some of our best growers are “small”. Quality is more important to us than quantity overall. But, with this said, some infrastructure is of course helpful in becoming a successful farm partner, including basics like a cooler and simple tunnels for season extension and quality control.
For a consistent sales outlet for various crops, the highest consideration and preference, staff support and expert guidance on what to grow in future seasons, an Annual Farm Partner Membership is the right fit for your farm.
For farmers who primarily specialize in crops that often flush on a larger scale just once a year (ie: Cherry Blossoms or Peonies) or grow highly demanded crops (ie: Dahlias), an on-demand relationship with Stemz may be the best fit. On-demand farmers typically sell to Stemz in larger quantities 1-5 times a year, and are not looking for any support or trend forecasting guidance.
Note: In the circumstance of a Farm Partner and an On-Demand Farmer growing the same product, Annual Farm Partners will always get sales preference.
“Working with Stemz has been a game changer for me and I have fallen back in love with farming! I can focus on being a better farmer while Stemz helps me market and sell my flowers. I don’t know where I would be without them!”