As Fresh As It Gets …
Our story
The Story of HMB Fresh
HMB Fresh began with a simple idea: what if students could experience what it really means to run a business—from growing and sourcing flowers to designing, selling, marketing, and serving real customers?
Rooted in the agricultural community of Half Moon Bay, HMB Fresh is a student-run floral enterprise within the Floriculture program at Half Moon Bay High School. Our students aren't simply learning about flowers—they are learning how to turn their creativity and agricultural skills into something meaningful for their community.
We source seasonal flowers locally whenever possible and create designs inspired by the beauty of the Coastside. Students take on real business roles, including sales, marketing, inventory, customer service, event coordination, web development, and floral design. Through HMB Fresh, they learn that a successful business is about much more than making a beautiful product. It is about relationships, reliability, creativity, problem-solving, and delivering an experience people remember.
Our offerings include seasonal floral subscriptions, custom event arrangements, pop-up bouquets, and our signature floral trailer, which brings the HMB Fresh experience directly to weddings, celebrations, community events, and gatherings.
At the heart of HMB Fresh is our belief that learning is most powerful when it is real. Every bouquet, event, order, and customer interaction gives our students an opportunity to practice skills that extend far beyond the classroom.
Rooted here. Grown here. Arranged here. Created by students. Made for our community.
About Our Teacher
Sonia Myers has been teaching for twelve years at both private and public schools, and has taught ten different grade levels. She currently teaches Floriculture and Soil Chemistry at Half Moon Bay High School in Half Moon Bay, California. She was a 2021 Grosvenor Teacher Fellow with National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions, a 2020 and 2023 standout leader in the Sustainable and Resilient Schools Challenge, and on the team for the 2024 Kent Award for Real Life Learning and Agricultural Science Programs. She has also written, We Have Something to Say! A middle-grade novel on plastics in the ocean. When not teaching or writing, you can find her with her family, drinking a good cup of coffee, and planting wildflower seeds.
Jesus Contreras- Contreras Farm
Our Floral program has been so lucky to be able to work with local floral farmer, Jesus Contreras, who supplies us with fresh and local flowers and foliage.
Contreras Farms is family owned and run since 1980, offering fresh cut flowers and produce, selling at various farmers markets in Bay Area and Sacramento, and also on Saturday and Sunday at farmers markets.
They provide cut flowers, fresh eucalyptus, dried eucalyptus, custom made bouquets, wreaths, bud vases, Brussels sprouts, artichokes, peas, fava beans & chicken eggs.
You can find them at https://www.contrerasfarm.com
“When Gardeners Garden, It Is Not Just Plants That Grow, But the Gardeners themselves ”
- Ken Druse