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Westland Floral Company Inc.

Greenhouse Grower staff By Greenhouse Grower staff|April 11, 2010

Westland Floral Company Inc.

City: Carpinteria, CA

Owner: Jerry & Case Van Wingerden

Environmentally controlled square footage: 1,677,060

Shade house square footage: 261,360

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Field production square footage: 653,400

Number of offshore facilities: 0

Percentage of production space under permanent environmentally controlled structure devoted to each crop:

Flowering potted plants 10%
Fresh cut flowers 90%

Which stores do you serve: Safeway/Vons Kroger/Ralphs, Trader Joe’s, Super Value

Do you have any comments about immigration reform or the effectiveness of guest-worker programs?
Guest worker program is too cumbersome.

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