What makes NWREC special isn’t just the research — It’s the spirit of cooperation that drives it forward.
Make the first move
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The most important lesson I learn during my visit to JLPN is to be proactive with your customers.
Sometimes new ideas come from watching and learning
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Sometimes opportunities to solve a problem can present themselves if you’re paying attention.
President’s Message: Where the rubber meets the bug
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Inspiration from the automotive industry leads industry veteran at Woodburn Nursery & Azaleas to an innovative and low cost solution to replacement rubber gaskets for beneficial insect colony container lids.
President’s message: Linkage and flow
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It is always good to get off the farm. Every time I visit a nursery, I come back with new ideas and fresh energy. I’d like to use this column to share some of those ideas and introduce you to the people who inspired them. It’s a blustery morning today in western Oregon. The driving […]
President’s Message: Effective communication
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Over the next year. I’d like to use this column to share some of those ideas and introduce you to the people who inspired them. My first foray brings me to Smith Gardens in Aurora, Oregon, where I learned a lesson in effective communication.
Growth means more when it’s a team
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When you think about growing, what comes to mind? Root structure and branching? Fertility and weed management? Perhaps it is personal growth. Greenhouse structures and irrigation design? Or business and community? For me it is cultural growth — how a group solves problems together, makes small, meaningful improvements, how they interact with the outside world, […]
Thanks for the memories
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It is hard for me to believe that a year has already gone by since I wrote my first President’s Message. What an incredible year it was!
Excited for a new season and a new year
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Fall is almost here, and I can feel the change happening. To me it is always the most obvious that seasonal change is upon us first thing every day. There is nothing like that cool, crisp morning with a beautiful sunrise and a light layer of fog covering the ground. I thoroughly welcome that change […]
Farwest has value now, and for future generations
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I believe many of us who were lucky enough to grow up within this industry have a few special memories or events that stand out to them. For me, and I am sure many others, the Farwest Show is almost nostalgic for that reason. Getting to work in the Simnitt Nursery booth was a highlight […]
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