Growing a greenhouse business is not an easy proposition. Today we’ll learn about an innovative family which has developed their greenhouse business so that it can sell millions of plants across the Midwest.
Last week we met Terry Olson, owner of Eastside and Westside Markets in Manhattan. Today we’ll learn about the greenhouse business started by her father, Dr. Leon Edmunds, a K-State plant pathologist who began Kaw Valley Greenhouses near Manhattan in 1967.
For his greenhouse, Dr. Edmunds and his wife Pat had a built-in labor force: Their nine children. Terry, the oldest, eventually opened her own separate retail market. Four of her siblings now own and operate Kaw Valley Greenhouses: Joe, Chris, Pete, and Knute.
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