Hi, I’m Cristina Nicole
From marketing strategy to Mediterranean soil.
I never planned to become a flower farmer. My background is in marketing and brand strategy, building things, telling stories, and helping others grow. But somewhere between the work and the long Cretan summers, I found myself drawn to the land, to the seasons, and to a quieter, more rooted way of living.
Love & Thyme is what grew from that.
This farm is my answer to a question I couldn't shake: what if flowers could be grown closer to home regeneratively, seasonally, and with care for the soil and the people around them? I'm building Love & Thyme slowly and intentionally, from the ground up, on the island I call home. It's early days, the land is still finding its way to me, but the vision is clear, and the roots are already going down.
Why flowers? Why Crete? Why now?
I'd love for you to grow alongside me.
The dream is to make locally grown the expectation rather than the exception.
Greece imports 110 million flower stems per year.
Each imported stem carries up to 3kg of CO₂e
That’s 330,000,000 kg of CO₂e annually
Or the equivalent of driving around the Earth 39,000 times
When buying flowers locally, you are helping the floral industry avoid the equivalent of driving from Crete to Australia and back, every single year, in carbon emissions.