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Mike Manages Lawn and Garden (and Sings Too!) | |
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My agricultural experience started in the mid 70’s.
I worked in a seed testing lab for the Del Monte Corp, in Sunnyvale, CA.
The production/warehouse manager was retiring so I was offered the job
and learned how to run the mills and separators as well as the various
dry and slurry treatments used at that time on vegetable seed being
processed for commercial growing and canning in the Midwest. Shortly thereafter I was given the opportunity to spend the spring and summers as a field agent, contracting with various growers in the Santa Maria/Guadalupe area to increase green bean seed lots and varieties provided by our Agricultural Research Dept. I doubled as warehouse manager and field agent for 6 years then made the mistake of taking an “advancement” to be a supervisor in the cannery! I worked in the Del Monte cannery for 5 more years then left to become Production Manager of Shasta Beverages as most of the food canneries in the Bay Area were closing down and moving to the central valley in CA. Upon moving to the great Northwest I got a job at Flower World and was put in charge of nursery stock, (trees, shrubs fruits and berries, roses and conifers). After about 4 ˝ years the opportunity arose to work at Bellevue Nursery as manager/buyer. I worked there for 6 years then transferred briefly to Classic Nursery in Redmond. While at Classic I became a Certified Professional Horticulturist. Becoming a CPH involves a three part test made up of general horticultural knowledge, landscape principles and plant ID. Here at the Grange, I needed to be licensed as a dealer for pesticides. One criterion of the two titles is the requirement to take continuing education classes throughout the year for license renewal and to learn of new developments and legal requirements in both fields. Michael Aguilar CPH | |
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