Horticulture Innovators
We started the ‘Horticulture Innovators’ podcast series to highlight the societal, economic, and research impact of horticulture and spread awareness about the amazing opportunities that exist to further the mission of sustainability, wellness, and food security. Please share these stories and join our humble efforts so that we can engage and prepare the next generation of horticulture professionals to sustain these amazing industries and keep our farmers economically competitive.
Episodes
10 episodes
S3: Episode 3: Ockert Greyvenstein - Plant Breeding Leads the World
Ockert Greyvenstein joined Ball Horticultural Company, in 2014 as plant breeder with PanAmericanSeed. A transplant from South Africa, he came to the US for graduate school, first earning his master's at Cornell, followed by a Ph.D. in plant...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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42:05
S3: Episode 2: Brad Abrameit - Tissue Culture is the Future
Brad Abrameit is a 1994 and 1996 graduate of Texas A&M University with a B.S. and M.S. in Horticulture. He is the President at Magnolia Gardens Nursery. Brad leads all functions of the container(165 acres) and tissue culture division (20 ac...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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33:26
S3: Episode 1: Jim Antwerp - The Ways of Nursery
Jim Antwerp is a 1990 graduate of Texas A& M University with a B.S. in Horticulture with a study emphasis in horticulture of Wholesale Nursery Management and Production and a study emphasis outside horticulture in Business. Having a horticu...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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28:33
Special Feature! Future Innovators: Mason Marshall & Trishia Nguyen
Ph.D. student Mason Marshall and undergraduate student Trishia Nguyen discuss what influenced their decision to pursue Horticulture as well as what they wish to accomplish in the future in the field of horticulture.Mason Marshall is a P...
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37:51
S2: Episode 3: Arun Sharma - Keeping tomatoes fresh
Prof. Arun Sharma received his Ph.D. in Life Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, in 1987 after carrying out work on the regulation of nitrate assimilation by phytochrome in the laboratory of Prof. Sudhir Sopory. H...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:02:51
S2: Episode 2: Haven Baker - Food Forward
Dr. Haven Baker co-founded Pairwise and served as Chief Business Officer from 2017 to 2024. Under his leadership, Pairwise secured $ 110 M+ of funding, completed multiple crop development deals, and launched the first CRISPR product in North Am...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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37:22
S2: Episode 1: Anna Ball - Leading Woman of Horticulture
Anna Caroline Ball is Chairman and CEO of the 119-year-old Ball Horticultural Company, which specializes in all aspects of horticulture, including breeding, biotechnology, production, and marketing of hybrid flower seeds and other floriculture ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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42:46
S1: Episode 3: Helping children all around the world through the Junior Master Gardener program
Lisa Whittlesey is an employee of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and received her bachelor and master’s degrees from Texas A&M University in horticulture with an emphasis in education/curriculum development.Lisa serves as ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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42:05
S1: Episode 2: Earth-Kind® Program - The power of environmental kindness.
Dr. Steve George is a Professor and Extension Horticulturist, and Landscape Horticulture Specialist since 1988 for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and is headquartered at the Texas A&M Research and Extension Center in north Dal...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:05:48
S1: Episode 1: Meet the Horticulture Influencer Kaitlyn Thornton
Kait Thornton, 4th generation apple and pear grower from Tonasket, Washington. Along with college classes, fruit sales, and work on the farm, Kait spends her time educating her over 450,000 followers across social media on farming and what it’s...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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46:34
