Greenhouse Grower’s Innovator Award Nomination

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Greenhouse Grower’s Medal of Excellence program honors the top greenhouse operations, growers, and other allied companies and people in our industry. Greenhouse Grower will recognize winners and finalists of the 2026 Medal of Excellence awards at its annual Evening of Excellence event at Cultivate’26 in Columbus, OH, on Monday, July 13, 2026.

The Innovator Award recognizes an individual(s), a company, or a partnership of companies that have demonstrated excellence by developing a breakthrough idea, process, or technology, and have shown its transformational potential to improve an area in horticulture/controlled-environment ag and create economic value. It also recognizes innovators who have demonstrated excellence and innovation in the early stages of their careers or throughout the lifetime of their careers, or individuals and companies that are in the early stages of an innovation breakthrough.

Nominations for the 2026 Innovator Award are now open. Be sure to join us when we announce the winner at the Medal of Excellence evening held July 13 at Cultivate’26.

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