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Company:
Ray Wiegand’s Nursery & Garden Center, Macomb, Mich.
Job Title:
Bedding House Manager
Age:
24
Accomplishments:
Manages all of company’s annuals production and nearly doubled production in one year; Certified Green Industry Professional and Member of Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association, serves on multiple OFA committees; Only person to ever serve two years as president of Horticulture Club at Michigan State University.
Extracurricular:
Favorite hobby: Vegetable gardening. “Growing every variety of vegetable is exciting to me;” Favorite flix: The Bourne series (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum). “I love the action and the constant change of pace.”
Fun Fact:
Secret talent: Jim is a certified scuba diver who has dived in Mexico and Canada.
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Year:
2012