Calibrating Spray Equipment Training
GEARING UP FOR SPRING? CORE CREDITS (Basic Safety and Handling) By actively participating in this class, you should be able to: Thursday, March 14, 20241:00 – 5:00 PM At Petitti Family of Farms – Willowbend in Perry Register below by Tuesday, March 12th. Limited to 25 participants.
2023 Annual Meeting & Clambake
Our 2023 Annual Meeting, Awards and Clambake event is coming up on Tuesday, October 10th starting at 5:00 pm. Visit the event page for details and to purchase your dinner selections. Rockway Catering is back by popular demand! Please RSVP by Thursday, October 5th.
2023 Golf Outing
Photo Credit: powderhorngc.com Friday, July 21, 2023 The fun starts at 10:00 AM Powderhorn Golf Course in Madison, OH
Paul Dunlavey
With great sadness we inform you of the loss of P.V.P Industries’ President and founding owner of P.V.P. Industries, Paul Dunlavey. Paul passed away on Monday, November 28, 2022, at 80 years old. “Rest assured Paul thoughtfully considered and communicated to his successors his plans for the future of P.V.P. Our operational principles will remain unchanged. … Read more
Nursery Profile – Tom Piispanen
by Mark Gilson
Nurseries – A Career for Me
Video by Ryan Eisenhuth
Asclepias: Butterflyweed and Milkweed
by Mark Gilson Sometimes the things we view every day are relegated to a lesser role in our lives. They become commonplace, uninspiring, unimportant. That is why we must travel occasionally, even if just for a silent momentary reverie, from which we return and view our daily world anew. Asclepias in all its forms shouts … Read more
Storrs & Harrison Nursery
by Mark Gilson The nursery industry in Lake County began in 1854 with the vision and hard work of Jesse Storrs. The railways were constructed the year before and he believed that access to transportation and the beneficial climate near Lake Erie made Painesville an excellent site to begin his new enterprise. An English Immigrant, … Read more
The Ridges of Eastern Lake County
by Mark Gilson The Historic Nursery Region of Lake County is three to seven miles deep and about twenty miles long, extending from Mentor to Madison. Once covered by glacial lakes there are three sand/gravel ridges that define the ancient shorelines. North Ridge sits ten to twenty feet above the ‘lake plain’ that runs a … Read more
Paul Otto
by Mark Gilson This was written by Paul in the early 1980’s as a background piece for a Perry High School reunion. Paul’s friendship with the Losely family in the early 1950s prompted them to move from Bainbridge to Perry, not far from Paul’s nursery on Lane Road. Paul has been gone for over twenty … Read more
Nursery Field Day Reflections
by Mark Gilson Since its inception in 1928, the nursery association of Lake County has featured major industry events to promote local operations, new plant introductions and technological innovations. In the organization’s first year the American Nurseryman’s Association traveled by train and by car from their annual convention in Cleveland to the heart of Lake … Read more