On January 16th and 17th I attended a greenhouse sustainable growing seminar at the OARDC in Wooster. The seminar focused on water recycling, more research on the use of calcium chloride to eliminate foliar disease problems and the use of beneficial insects to control… The wind of last Sunday was exceptionally strong and even with precautions taken, minor damage was evident except that the plastic film of our biggest storage house was decimated even with it being tightly fastend and straps called batten straps were present to… The mild winter weather still continues and with it the lack of snow. While most of us don’t mind the lack of snow with its driving problems it can create and of course shoveling it out of the driveway and off sidewalks, snow in the north is the most significant… Now that it’s a new year, one of my goals is to set the course of the company as far as changes in infrastructure, customer relations, employee policy and so on.  Clear written goals are printed in large type on a poster board in our break room so that they are not…