{"id":3887,"date":"2020-07-15T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afe.epicenter1.com\/news\/operation-rescue-floral-history"},"modified":"2024-03-15T21:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T21:57:29","slug":"operation-rescue-floral-history","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/endowment.org\/es\/news\/operation-rescue-floral-history","title":{"rendered":"Operation \u201cRescue Floral History\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-files\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-14-at-10.10.21-PM.png\" alt=\"Operation \u201cRescue Floral History\u201d\" class=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-14-at-10.10.21-PM.png 1080w, https:\/\/endowment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-14-at-10.10.21-PM-480x307.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 1080px, 100vw\"> <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This Spring, Florists\u2019 Review sold its building in Topeka, Kansas leaving its extensive library of more than 120 years of history without a home. Since 1897, <em>Florists\u2019 Review<\/em> magazine has chronicled the ups and downs of the floral industry.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On top of that, with the Coronavirus Pandemic in full steam, there was no way to deliver the books to a university for proper archiving.<\/span><\/p><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That\u2019s when the American Floral Endowment\u2019s Debi Chedester stepped into the rescue effort. <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u201cWe simply couldn\u2019t allow the largest collection of floral history in the world to disappear,\u201d<\/span><\/strong> she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to find a way to get the collection and preserve it.\u201d<\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fortunately for the magazine, she called on a long-time AFE supporter, and wholesaler Baisch &amp; Skinner stepped forward to coordinate pick up and storage of the magazines until funding and an appropriate partner university can be located.<\/span><\/p><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Baisch &amp; Skinner\u2019s Steve Frye said he was thrilled to help. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve been long-time partners with <em>Florists\u2019 Review<\/em> and have served them in the Topeka, Kansas market for many years. We understand the importance of preserving this history for the future.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> Frye also serves on the AFE Board of Trustees.<\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chedester said the Endowment hopes to procure funding to have the magazines digitally scanned and added to their online <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #993300;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/hortscans.ces.ncsu.edu\/search\/floriculture\/\">Floriculture Infosearch Library<\/a><\/strong><\/span> created in collaboration with North Carolina State University.\u00a0 The Floriculture InfoSearch is a powerful, but focused search engine designed to house floriculture information from scientific literature, trade and association magazines\/websites, universities and the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/es\/\">Endowment Floral Americano<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong> archives that dates back to the 1800s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was created for this purpose \u2013 to protect historical industry data.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI am so incredibly grateful to the Endowment and to the team at Baisch &amp; Skinner for this amazing effort,\u201d current publisher Travis Rigby said. \u201cI have always been worried about the collection sitting in a very vulnerable location in Kansas. This partnership ensures the collection will find a safe home and will be available to the entire industry as a resource for many years to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you or your organization is interested in supporting this project or any of a myriad of other programs the American Floral Endowment administers, please contact them directly.<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/endowment.org\/es\/donate-to-afe\/\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;\">Donate Online Here<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mail donations to:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Endowment Floral Americano<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1001 North Fairfax Street, Suite 201<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alexandria, VA 22314<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>All donations made to AFE are tax-deductible \u2013 Tax ID: 23-6268380.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>This article was originally published in Florists\u2019 Review.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;\"><strong>About American Floral Endowment: <\/strong><em>The\u00a0<strong>Endowment Floral Americano<\/strong>\u00a0(AFE) is an independent nonprofit organization that funds research and scholarships in floriculture and environmental horticulture for the benefit of growers, wholesalers, retailers, allied industry organizations and the general public.<\/em><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 8pt;\"><strong>About Baisch &amp; Skinner: <\/strong><em>Beginning in 1952, Baisch &amp; Skinner\u2019s headquarters has resided within the historic St. Louis Floral Market. Still in its original location, the company has grown from that 3,700 sq. ft. single storefront to a 160,000 sq. ft complex of buildings on the Flower Market. It includes modern greenhouses, enormous cut flower coolers and beautiful showrooms for its selection of permanent botanical flowers, decorative and home decor accessories.<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","news-categories":[32,31,29],"class_list":["post-3887","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-categories-donors","news-categories-latest-news","news-categories-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Operation \u201cRescue Floral History\u201d - American Floral Endowment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This Spring, Florists\u2019 Review sold its building in Topeka, Kansas leaving its extensive library of more than 120 years of history without a home. 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