D'oh! My bad. Let's see, my great-great-great grandfather started the business in his home kitchen in 1892...

My brother and I were never pressured into the business, in fact we were told to go work elsewhere (or be self-employed) first. But we both ended up here, he on the retail side and me on the wholesale side. I went to school for landscape architecture and hated it, but did some landscape contracting/construction for awhile when my current position opened up and I've been here ever since. It's less hands-on than the contracting work that I enjoyed but thanks to the seasonal nature things change a lot as we move from one season to the next and I still do field trials and consulting with my salespeople. There's a lot of satisfaction in helping people out with their problems, in a golf superintendents case it might mean keeping their job.

I can't take any credit for the startup but there is a lot of pressure to NOT be the generation to drop the ball!

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)