Earlier this year, Skagit Horticulture in Washington announced it would be shutting down. CEO Scott Crownover shares his thoughts on the company, its team, and lessons others can learn from.
In this episode of Greenhouse Grower to Grower, we catch up with leadership from Skagit Horticulture and Smith Gardens to learn more about the future of floriculture in the Pacific Northwest.
The plants from Suntory Flowers will be available in 72-cell liners and bare root forms through a distribution partnership with McHutchison and Vaughan’s Horticulture.
When you’re dealing with hundreds of thousands of square feet of controlled-environment production, any wrinkle in the horticulture supply chain can have major effects. Here’s how some of the industry’s largest operations are planning for 2022 and beyond.
Skagit Horticulture has opened a new clean-stock greenhouse to complement its large-scale production of select agricultural plant starts launched last year.
The first year of the Washington Lean Consortium came to a successful conclusion, with members reporting significant savings in costs and more efficient production.
By merging two large-scale producers, Skagit Gardens and Northwest Horticulture, the new company has realized its strengths through focused divisions that emphasize efficiency and success.
The new grower-propagator partners are deeply vested in the independent garden center channel with propagation expertise, as well as finished production focused on the independent grower.
The group of growers has committed to learning and applying the principles of Lean, a method for eliminating waste that results in more value to customers delivered at a lower cost, in a shorter time, with fewer defects and less human effort.
