TOUR DESCRIPTIONS
Scott’s Company
The Scotts Company tour will involve a tour of the research and development center, new state of the art greenhouses, and turf & ornamental field trials.
The R & D center houses the life support for future product development (biotechnology), and on-going evaluation and testing of current lawn and garden products such as MiracleGro and GrubEx. Field tours will include both turfgrass and ornamental research, which is geared towards professional and consumer products.
The highlight of the tour will be the state of the art greenhouse facility that opened in 2003. This portion of the tour will feature a discussion of how advancements in biotechnology are benefiting this sector of agriculture, from gene insertion into turfgrass or ornamental callus tissue to actual turfgrass plants being evaluated for reduced growth, herbicide resistance, drought tolerance, and extended flower life.
Malabar Farm is the former home of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and the father of the modern conservation movement, Louis Bromfield. In 1945, Bromfield’s close friends, legendary movie stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, were married in the Malabar Farm Big House, which is now open for guided tours. Bromfield’s home, which is still a working farm, was designated as an Ohio State Park in 1976 and is listed on the National Registry of Historic places. Malabar Farm is located near Mansfield Ohio. House and wagon tours will have a small charge to be paid by the individual on arrival. (For more information, please refer to www. Malabarfarm.org.)
Michael Farms, Inc.
Family owned and operated for more than 40 years , Michael Farms, Inc. supplies grocery retailers and food service distributors in Ohio and surrounding states with top quality produce. Snap beans, sweet corn, cabbage and potatoes are washed and packed in modern state-of-art facilities. Slush ice, hydra-coolers and 15,000 square feet of refrigerated coolers provide maximum shelf life for the customers. Michael Farms grows all their own produce on 2,000 acres of naturally rich mineral soil in the Ohio Valley and irrigates to ensure consistent quality and supply. Daily harvest provides the freshest product July through October. (For more information, please refer to www.michaelfarms.com.)
TBA
1/09/04
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