NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS 



Touring for Profit 



A three-day bus tour of seven New 

 Jersey/New York garden centers is 

 taking place September 28-30. Par- 

 ticipants will travel by C&J 

 Trailways coach bus to the New 

 York City area and spend two 

 nights at a Ramada Inn in East 

 Hanover, New Jersey. 



The schedule's a busy one and 

 includes visits to Mattcrhorn Nurs- 

 ery, Donaldson's Farm, Country 

 Nursery, Great Swamp Greenhouses, 

 J&M Plants, DuBrows Nursery, and 

 Cerbos Nursery. Some of the names 

 are familiar; others are new: all are 

 innovative, high-quality operations 

 with plenty of ideas to share. 



Evenings are free; although on 

 the second night, you can choose to 

 attend an optional dinner cruise 

 around the island of Manhattan. 



The price for transportation and 

 lodging is $250 (double) or $360 

 (single). Each person will pay for 

 his/her own meals. 



The event is co-sponsored by 

 UNH Cooperative Extension and 



the New Hampshire Plant Growers' 

 Association. By now, brochures 

 have been sent, but for more infor- 

 mation, call Nancy Adams at 603- 

 679-5616. 



Specialist Selected 



David Kopsell has accepted an offer 

 to fill the position of Extension 

 Specialist, Vegetable Crops, which 

 opened with the retirement of Otho 

 Wells. Thirty percent of David's 

 time will be devoted to research 

 and seventy percent, to Extension; 

 he will be a member of the Plant 

 Biology Department. 



David grew up on a 200-acre 

 family-run nursery operation in 

 northeastern Illinois. He also ran a 

 tree-transplanting business with his 

 twin brother for several years. He 

 has a bachelor's degree from Illinois 

 State, where he majored in horticul- 

 ture and minored in business. He 

 completed his masters and Ph.D at 

 the University of Georgia. His re- 

 search has been with Vidalia onions 

 and he has published in a number 



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of peer-reviewed journals. 



We expect David to start on No- 

 vember first, 1999. 



Relocation, Expansion 



As of June first, Rimol Greenhouse 

 Systems (RGS) has relocated to a 

 new facility in Hooksett. The new 

 address is 40 Londonderry Turn- 

 pike, Hooksett, NH 03106. 



Rimol also has announced the 

 development of its own line of 

 greenhouses, manufactured in their 

 new 6,000-square-foot Hooksett fa- 

 cility. These houses, described as 

 "high-quality, affordable, rugged, 

 and easy to assemble, " will be avail- 

 able in the fall, starting with the 

 Northpoint, a peaked, free-standing 

 structure available in a variety of 

 sizes. The Catamount, a 15-foot- 

 wide coldframe structure, will also 

 be available. "Additional structures 

 and products will be developed as 

 manufacturing capabilities expand. " 



To facilitate all these happenings, 

 two new staff members have been 

 added. Mike Marett joined RGS in 

 May. Mike will lead the customer 

 service and manufacturing/distribu- 

 tion operations effort. 



And Ken Gosselin joined in 

 June. Ken will handle inside sales, 

 customer product support, and de- 

 velopment of computer program- 

 ming. Ken has worked as a grower 

 and is a former director of the 

 NHPGA. 



The phone numbers are 603- 

 629-9004 and (toll free) 1-877- 

 RIMOLGH. 



Some New Possibilities 



Last summer, Dave Howell, Depart- 

 ment of Resource Economics and 

 Development, College of Life Sci- 

 ences and Agriculture (COLSA), at 

 UNH in Durham, was one of 14 

 agricultural educators from the 

 United States sent, through FFA's 

 Farmer-to-Farmer program, to ad- 

 vise agricultural teachers throughout 

 the Ukraine. Although he spent 

 only one day at the Agricultural 



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