Rebel Cultures

“What do you want to talk about?” These things: #processimprovement #tissueculture #AI #nature 🌱 Take it easy and have blast, everyone at AmericanHort’s #Cultivate24

👀 Subtle mention that our pilot program - the wildest overhaul to non-seed plant prop… Is now live. 👀 Ask about joining at your own risk (of leading a movement toward #localpropagation.) 🌱🐝♥️🌱

Finishing our first intern week strong: Welcome to the STARTUP SPLASHZONE, Wendy Miedema! 💦🌱 Thank you Hope College #DiscoverWork for the cool opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences between #academia and #industry. No spoilers... but if the trials we set up today work the way we expect, it's going to be a VERY big deal. Question for our Rebel Cultures followers: If it doesn't involve a big bucket, is it even #science? #plantscinece #tissueculture #grapes #sequoia Rebel Cultures

It takes a special person… To ask to start their internship on April Fool’s Day. Welcome, Jairus Meer from the Hope College DiscoverWork program!! We’re psyched to have you. #plantscience #tissueculture #internship 🌱🌿🤓

Amazing things happen when you support #local ecosystems - environmental or business Example: Reliable + cost effective LEDs for R&D have alluded us for 16 months, maybe more Last Friday a family member texted a screenshot of a horticulture lighting company - minutes from HQ An email and a text later, we’re on the phone solving the problem Within SIX DAYS of first contact, we have: 💡Picked up quality lights for our next phase of R&D - no shipping fees 💸 Kicked off a rebate application 🤝 New physical handshake relationships with complementary tech developers established in our local target market(!!) If you’re not yet convinced this is magic… have you ever complemented someone’s cool paperweight, to have the owner shrug and say “take it” …? Can’t make this up. Interractions like this literally can’t happen online Cheers to Jeff Mastin and team at TotalGrow Lights for taking care of us. Rebel Cultures #planttissueculture #propagation #research

Two serious questions: 1) Who’s going to #IndoorAgCon and wants to meet up to talk about crazy #plant #propagation tech? I’ve got just a few openings left in my schedule. 2) is Vegas ready for this shirt? Rebel Cultures #tissueculture #indoorag

Happy to be seeing some familiar faces and learning about new #michigan #agriculture challenges @ SW MI Hort Days today (and yesterday)!! P. S. If you are, or know of any #grape people I should meet before the Craft Beverage Summit next month - please reach out! 🍇🌱 #plantscience #plantbreeding #tissueculture

It’s been 3 days of being in the right place at the right time on the East Coast. - Helping a collaborator lab pick the right investment for production… before the contractors arrived 🛠️ - Intimately meeting one of the oldest and largest white oak trees in the world… because the dark, cold, and rain kept other visitors inside 🌳 - Riding the train down the coast because it’s faster than flying, arriving at #MANTS after hours last night, and still seeing a familiar face within moments of entering the building. 👯♂️ Today, I’m grateful for a FULL DAY of connecting about the vision, and growing capacity for local, 100% US-produced plant tissue culture (you read that right - a world without international freight and phytosanitary headaches). If you’re here at MANTS, shoot me a message and join me in being at the right place, at the right time. 🌱🤩 #MANTS #planttissueculture #local