If there is part of the year when you have both the time and the interest to advance your horticulture knowledge, it’s probably now. That’s good because ProGreen EXPO is just around the corner and it will offer nearly one hundred educational sessions to choose from—where you can learn how to run your operations more efficiently, where your staff...
Neal Glatt, managing partner and co-founder of GrowTheBench.com, shifted his attention to consulting in 2017 and provides coaching services for business leaders and teams. His focus on green industry companies evolved from both his professional success at a snow management company coupled with his personal desire to help others find their own success.
The Scramble for Talent
Glatt knows it is...
Glenda Mostek
CNGA Executive Director
Welcome to 2023! A new year, and new budgets for those who are on a January-December fiscal year. Through the fall, you received emails regularly from CNGA, asking for help sponsoring our events. They may appear in your inbox more frequently than you might expect. Why? Well, because event sponsorship provides an important part of CNGA’s...
Team Engine4845 Pearl East Circle, Ste. 118 PMBBoulder, CO 80301720-730-6314https://www.teamengine.io
Interview with Carlos Del Pozo, Co-Founder
Where did the idea to start Team Engine come from?
After serving in the Army and earning my MBA, I set out to buy an existing business, having grown up in a small business family. I enjoyed leading teams that weren’t fixed to a desk, so...
Dynamic Plants11400 County Road 14 1/2Fort Lupton, CO 80621720-641-8143http://www.dynamicplants.com
Interview with Brett Verbeek, CEO
How did you first get started in the greenhouse business?
People always think I’m joking when I say my playpen was in the greenhouse, but it’s literally true. Both my parents were growers in the Netherlands and as a toddler they kept me close at hand by putting...
As President of the Colorado Nursery and Greenhouse Growers Association (CNGA), I am proud to look back on another successful year for our organization and industry in general. The past few years have been full of ups and downs with so many changes. In 2020, we had to adapt to a new way of life and business. We didn’t...
On Aug. 9, 2022 about 200 professionals evaluated close to 1,200 different planted annuals at the Colorado State University (CSU) Annual Flower Trials. Many of CSU’s flower seed and vegetative companies visit the trials and evaluate a portion of the different varieties. A luncheon was served at which the College of Agricultural Sciences Interim President and Dean and other...
Daniel Burcham, Ph.D., joined CSU’s Horticulture and Landscape Architect (HSA) department about 1.5 years ago as the university prepared for the retirement of Jim Klett. Klett’s career at CSU spans 40-plus years and his role will be covered with two new people. Burcham takes the ‘woody plant’ portion of Klett’s work.
Prior to his position as assistant professor of arboriculture...
Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) Seed and Nursery programs had a busy summer with some new developments. Not only do I want you to be aware of this new information, I am asking you to digest it, keep it on your radar, and provide me with your thoughts and feedback regarding what CDA can do to work on your...
Colorado’s Pesticide Applicators’ Act, last updated in 2015, is up for review in 2023. The Act specifies how to safely and effectively use pesticides in agriculture and other green industry applications including nurseries, greenhouses, aerial use, parks, schools and more. The early months of 2023 are critical for industry involvement.
NewsLeaf magazine talked with Sundari Kraft, a public affairs consultant...
