Le Mera Gardens

Le Mera Gardens

Photo by Robert Jaffe of artist Betty LaDuke’s 6 feet tall carved and painted wood panel of a flower farmer cutting colorful flowers with a harvest tool, on the fields of Le Mera Gardens.
LAND STEWARDSHIP

Origins

By: Joan Thorndike | | Perspective

While we at Le Mera Gardens and Fry Family Farm think of ourselves as long time local farmers, our work in Southern Oregon ...

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Time-lapse of a purple dahlia blooming, petals unfurled to full-sized flower on a black background. Opening shot of BLOOM, a short documentary about Joan Ewer Thorndike and Le Mera Gardens, by Joanne Feinberg.
DOCUMENTARY SHORT

BLOOM — A Portrait of Oregon Organic Flower Farmer Joan Thorndike

By: Debra Prinzing | | In the News | Documentary

The opening frame of “BLOOM” features a dahlia blooming in time-lapse, with petals unfurling to a full-sized flower.

Accompanied ...

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Flower farmer Joan Thorndike harvesting tall fresh delphinium and ruby colored snapdragons on Le Mera Gardens open field in Ashland Oregon.
THE OREGONIAN

Get to know your grower

By: Janet Eastman | | In the News | The Oregonian

There's a field of good reasons to buy local flowers. Just look around. In June and July, every state in the U.S. is producing ...

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Joan Ewer Thorndike of Le Mera Gardens presenter at the Women in Sustainable Agriculture Conference in Portland, Oregon.
CAPITAL PRESS

Flower grower follows her love

By: Eric Mortenson | | In the News | Capital Press

Joan Ewer Thorndike owns Le Mera Gardens, an organic cut flower business based in Ashland, Ore. “We don't have automation,” ...

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Photos by David Perry, Ann Nguyen, Rob Jaffe, Isabella Thorndike Church, Rick Urbanski