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INDUSTRY EVENT
Greenhouse Growers Field Day at
Catoctin Mountain Growers
If you closed your eyes for a few of green grass. This field day was the program over to one of the
minutes on Thursday, July 8th no different except instead of grass, owners of Catoctin Mountain
you would hear people laughing, we stood right in the heart of acres Growers, Tyler Van Wingerden.
connections happening, colleagues upon acres of greenhouse glass in Tyler addressed all of the attendees
catching up, greenhouse carts awe of the operation. giving a brief background of the
going up and down the aisles, There were even a few high school operation but saving all of the
and the sound of what we have all agriculture teachers that joined us special and unique details for
missed so much, in-person events. the extended tours later in the
for the day as a part of a Certified
In conjunction with the University of Professional Horticulture (CPH) afternoon.
Maryland and its Extension offices, program training they were taking John Erwin, the Department
the MNLGA hosted a Greenhouse part in. It was incredible to have our Chair for the Plant Science
Growers Field Day on July 8th at teachers there who will teach and and Landscape Architecture
Catoctin Mountain Growers in bring up our next generation of department at University
Keymar, Maryland. Often times agriculture students. of Maryland kicked off the
when we think about field days, The day started out with a warm educational part of the morning
we think of long rows of trees in welcome from MNLGA Vice- with his talk on bedding and
production, rolling fields of nursery President John Murphy who turned potted plants. After John’s sessions,
containers, and acres upon acres
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