My Trip to a Flower Farm Outside Bogota
Posted by: k in Tourist Stuff in Bogota, Daily Life in Bogota
My friend Ines Cristina, a teacher at my school, has a flower farm just outside the city, near the town called La Calera. Well, it’s not her farm–she and her husband own a piece of it, along with her husband’s brother and some others. La Calera, by the way, I always thought was the name of the mountain just above Calle 84, with lots of cool restaurants and clubs and a popular place on weekend days for bicyclists and brunchers. Now I know that i’s actually the name of a little town on the other side of the mountain.
Selling Roses all over the World
This farm is called Matina Flowers (the Italian word for morning) and grows roses only. Seventy-five percent of the roses sold in the US come from Colombia, but this farm also 
sells roses in Spain, Germany, and Russia. Ines says it’s important not to put yourself in a position of relying solely on the US market. Makes sense to me. They sell 30% in the US, 30% in Russia, and the rest in Europe and various other places.
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