Vic & Margaret Ball Host Employers

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Special thanks to the following organizations who have hosted AFE interns.

The following list represents current and past Vic & Margaret Ball host employers. If you would like to join this list and become a host for AFE’s Vic & Margaret Ball Interns, please contact AFE.
Agri-Starts (FL)

Aldershot of New Mexico (NM)
Alex R. Masson Wholesale Growers (KS)
Altman Plants (CO)
*housing available for interns

Andy Mast Greenhouses (MI)
Aris Horticulture (OH)
Ashcombe Farm and Greenhouses (PA)
Bachman’s Inc. (MN)
Ball Horticultural Company (IL)
Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, Inc. (MA)
Bear Creek Farms (OK)
Bell Nursery

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(MD, NC, VA, OH locations)
*on-site housing at Burtonsville, MD location available for summer/fall internships
Bluebird Nursery, Inc. (NE)
Bob’s Market and Greenhouses, Inc. (WV)
Clesen Midwest, Inc (IL)
ColorPrint (IL, KY)
Davis Floral Company (GA)
D.S. Cole Growers (NH)
EuroAmerican Propagators (CA)

Brooke Gasteyer in German Wholesale Nursery

Farmers’ West (CA)
Four Star Greenhouse, Inc. (MI)
Frisby Greenhouses (OK)
G&B Orchid Lab & Nursery (CA)

Glover Perennials (NY)
*Housing available
Grandiflora (FL)
Green Circle Growers (OH)

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Hart’s Nursery (PA)
Heartland Growers (IN)
Homestead Gardens (MD)
Homewood Nursery (NC)
J. Frank Schmidt & Sons (OR)
Kerry’s Bromeliad Nursery (FL)

Kitayama Brothers (CA)
Knox Nursery (FL)
Longwood Gardens (PA)
Marty Johnson Garden Center (KS)
Metrolina Greenhouses (NC)
Michael’s Nursery (FL)
Mid-American Growers (IL)
Molbak’s Garden + Home (WA)
Moss Greenhouses (ID)
Natchez Trace Greenhouses (MS)
Neal Mast & Son Greenhouse (MI)

(housing available for interns)
North Creek Nurseries (PA)
Oglevee, Ltd. (CA)
Olive Hill Greenhouses (CA)
Oregon Flowers (OR)
Pacific Plug & Liner (CA)
Paul Ecke Ranch (CA)

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Peace Tree Farm (PA)
Pikes Peak Greenhouse (LA, TX)
Plant Delights Nursery, Inc. (NC)
Pleasant View Gardens (NH)
Raker & Sons, Inc. (MI)
Roycroft Daylily Nursery (SC)
Skagit Horticulture, LLC (WA)
Smith Gardens (CA,OR)
Spring Meadow Nursery (MI)
Stutzman Greenhouse (KS)
Sunny Meadows Flower Farm (OH)
Sun Valley Floral Farms (CA)
(housing available for interns)

Sunbelt Greenhouses (GA)
Swift Greenhouses (IA)
Syngenta Flowers (US & Europe)
Tagawa Greenhouses (CO)
(housing available for interns)
Timbuk II Plant Company (OH)

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Twixwood Nursery (MI)
Van Wingerden International (NC)
Veldkamp Greenhouses (CO)
Walter’s Gardens, Inc. (MI)
Welby Gardens (CO)
Wenke Greenhouses (MI)
White Flower Farm (CT)
White’s Nursery, Greenhouse, & Garden Center (VA)
Wollam Gardens (VA)

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