And my competitive athlete background taught me to ask, ‘What is your win?’ So I started finding those small wins, even in the hard days,” - Jennifer Moss

I make a 3-D vessel form out of fabric – something I learned at the workshop last summer. I sew the form and then stuff it with perlite (the little white stones in potting soil) and sculpt it.

The hardest part about coming from restaurant and hospitality management into the greenhouse is, in a restaurant, dinner's on the table and if the customer's upset, you have to solve it right then. And when I saw an issue at the greenhouse, I’d say, ‘We need to change this.’ Since I came on in January and our fiscal year is September through August, I’d hear, ‘No, we don't need to talk about that for eight or 10 months.’

Our offerings as a supplier were very traditional. When we lost King’s Discount Store, it was an opportunity in disguise. We started to change our basket combinations and move away from that flat footprint into more container gardening with more perceived value on the baskets,”