Horticultural Coordinator
Current- Direct all aspects of the native plant horticulture program displayed in the gardens surrounding the BC’s Brandywine River Museum, Environmental Management Center, 3 additional buildings and 25 acres of meadows.
- Recruit/train/supervise/work with 40 garden volunteers of varying backgrounds, education levels, ages and abilities; organize educational trips for volunteers; plan and supervise the work of a staff gardener.
- Designed, planned and coordinated the conversion of over 6,000 sq feet of campus lawn into water saving, carbon foot reducing, storm water managing, ecologically productive native plant communities. Completed in 2013.
- Developed and manage all phases of a unique native plant seed program (collection, drying, cleaning, storing, packaging, testing, selling) – peak year sales have totaled $12,000.00, without advertising.
- Prepare and publish, yearly, a 9-page seed catalogue – newly included germination codes are the culmination of 22 years of sustained research effort.
- Operate a plant nursery primarily reliant on seed propagation to produce plants for the Chadds Ford campus gardens and an annual fund-raising native plant sale. Nursery handles approximately 12,000 plants/year.
Jul 1990 - Present
