This flower farm in QLD supports employment for people with disabilities, and are now busy preparing thousands of bouquets in time for Mother’s Day
This field of colourful chrysanthemums is in the middle of Bundaberg. Every stem grown with love and purpose. It’s part of our tradition. This is year 33 that we’re growing. The flowers we provide work for people with a disability, give them the best chance in life. 50,000 flowers and more than 30 different hues will be picked by workers and volunteers after a wet start to the week. Put them behind schedule, the sun shining flowers out. We’re picking. It’s all happening. The annual Mother’s Day crop is part of the Endeavour Foundation’s social enterprise, a working farm that creates paid employment opportunities for people living with disabilities like farmhand Rob Cook. If you work hard, you get noticed. And aside from that, everyone’s mates, staff and employees really great. For the volunteers, it’s about giving back to the community and spreading joy. I make the poses every year. I’ve been making them for eight years and. The the look on the ladies faces when they get the Posies is just wonderful. And it’s not only new mums who enjoy them. I take a bunch home, usually for my neighbours that are on their own. And they just love them. The wet weather and delays to the harvest has meant these beautiful bunches will be for sale beyond Mother’s Day, with all the proceeds going to the Endeavour Foundation. A worthy cause brightening the lives of many.