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Virtual Conference: Ideas, Methods, and Objectives to Help You Manage Your Greenhouse and Nursery Business During Difficult Times.

Virtual Conference: My Business, Lean and Mean

With budgets tight, we've decided to present a conference online instead of at one of our normal venues. The theme is "Ideas, Methods, & Objectives to Help You Manage Your Greenhouse and Nursery Business During Difficult Times. " Read more...
Denise Etheridge, Production Greenhouse Manager of Homewood Nursery & Garden Center, Raleigh, NC

Developing Your Marketing Niche:
Do What You Do Best

Success today means looking for and serving niche markets.We have tips on how to find your niche and important rules for raking on a new niche. Read more...
Greenhouse with energy saving design.

The Impact of High Energy Costs
and What To Do About It

Updated! Even though energy costs are below their mid-2008 peak, Greenhouse growers still face huge energy bills. How this affected greenhouse growers? We surveyed 30 greenhouse businesses, looking at total costs and found out how they deal with high energy costs. Read more...
Competing against the Big Boxes.

How Can Small Greenhouses Compete
Against “Big Boxes”?

Consider two small towns in the heartland of America: Each has an established small grower; and, both have been invaded by a “Big Box” store. A few years later, one grower is bankrupt while the other is surviving and thriving. We visited more than 80 greenhouses, garden centers, and nurseries in the past two years to discover the “hows” and “whys” of dealing with the “Big Boxes”. Read more...
Plants for Green Rooftops could be your next niche market. Read about it in our Virtual Conference. (Photo courtesy Dr. Rob Berghage, Associate Professor of Horticulture, Penn State University)

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