Greenhouse production history

“Golden age”

• 1600’s netherlands

  • half of the worlds goods were shipped by the dutch

  • demand for goods was high

  • esp fresh flowers and produce

• Conservatories

• orangeries

• botanical gardens

“Nursery” Origins

• Originally used to describe the part fo the garden where young stock was started

• “seminairy”

• “botanic garden”

American nurserery industry

• First written account

  • late 1600’s

  • Massetusets apple trees

  • 250 A

• 1737 NY

  • Robert Prince

  • Linnaean botainic garden and nurseries

  • 130 years

  • manuscript collection

Types of greenhouse operations

• Foliage plants

• ferns

• vegetables

  • hot peppers

  • lettuce

  • herbs

• hydroponics

• bedding plants

• propagation

Types of nursery operations

• In ground

• in pots

• very specific species

• little bit of everything

• trademarked

Projecting the future

• Greenhouse market value

  • 25000 million in USD in 2022

  • ~10% over the next 7 years

• Nursery industry

  • 48.7 billion in USD over the past 5 years

  • 3% decline expected for 2023

Final thoughts on the future

• Robotics

  • moving product around the operation

• Automation

  • filling pots

  • picking pots; vegetables; fruits

  • collecting date- salts, fertilizer, water quality, yeilds

• AI

  • making decisions based upon the data collected

• Cameras and lasers

  • identify good vs bad product