Alexandria (Zandi) Saleem

Zandi is a first generation Palestinian Egyptian artist, florist, and farmer. Zandi is a regenerative flower farmer dedicated to cultivating right relationship with the ecosystems she cohabits. A wedding & events florist by trade, she is intimately humbled by the ways flowers hold space for ritual in life’s most important moments, from joy to grief. Zandi has witnessed how flowers take the place of words when there are none to be said.

She began to integrate her social Justice work and floristry in 2020, working with local BIPOC mutual aid orgs to support in community gatherings from grief to celebration across cultures. In 2022 this dream grew even more when she began as a flower farming apprentice through Mudbone Grown. With the support of Feed’em Freedom Foundation, Zandi now runs Flowers to the Folks, and grows flowers at the cooperative farms.