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Kiva Loan Success Story: Native & Uncommon Plants
Introduction Alfred and Leslie Romeu own Native & Uncommon Plants, a native plant nursery that focuses on cultivating pollinator-friendly, sustainable plants. The growing demand for native plants has shifted their goals from retailing to wholesale and focusing on growing more plants. Challenges in Traditional Funding Traditional funding sources proved difficult for Native & Uncommon Plants.…
David Chiappini Education Fund
David’s friends and colleagues have established this fund to honor his memory and support young people interested in working with native plants. Donations provide travel assistance, pay registration fees and provide other educational support to students and young emerging professionals. David always had time to talk, share information about plants, and to encourage others. Honor…
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Florida Kiva Loan Program
Can a small loan help your native plant nursery? Or a nursery you’d like to have in your community? The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Native Plant Horticulture Foundation has been approved as a Trustee by Kiva, one of the world’s most popular and successful nonprofit microlending…
Dig Meadows? Educational Opportunity
Applications were due no later than Sept. 5, 2022, for registration sponsorship for students and emerging professionals for October educational event hosted by FANN in Florida Panhandle. THIS EVENT IS OVER Wild Meadow Magic – Fall 2022 Thanks in part to a retired native nurseryman, who wishes to honor the memory of his daughter, and…
GO NATIVE: THE BEEMANS, NATIVE PLANT GROWERS & INNOVATORS
Podcast interview with Steve Beeman, owner of Beemats Floating Wetlands.
GO NATIVE: JANE THOMPSON, NATIVE PLANT GROWER
Podcast interview with Jane Thompson, owner of Indian Trails Native Nursery in Lake Worth, Florida. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Jane Thompson is the owner and operator of Indian Trails Native Nursery, a one-stop shop for Florida native plants in Lake Worth, the western end of Palm Beach County in South Florida. Jane supplies wholesale plants to…
Go Native: Jerry Fritz, Native Tree Grower
Jerry Fritz, retired tree farmer, talks about how he got into the native plant industry.
FALL 2021 UF REAL FLORIDA LANDSCAPES DESIGN CHALLENGE
Before this project, I had just been exposed to Florida-friendly landscaping™ principles. Native plants were the “better option when possible” was all I knew. It really helped, being forced to look at native options and dive into it. It’s really cool to see that natives connect to a place. [Now] I definitely know that good…
Go Native: Carl Bates Indigenous Plants
This is an interview with a Florida wholesale grower and broker for native plants.