Since 1988, family-owned van Hoekelen Greenhouses has grown seasonal flowering plants and bulbs for wholesale customers nationwide, earning a reputation as the largest bulb grower on the East Coast. Based in McAdoo, Pennsylvania, the company now operates 23 acres under glass across three locations, with a second generation of the van Hoekelen family working in the business. Owner and CEO Lori van Hoekelen makes VHG a woman-owned business, while her husband Cok brings horticultural experience rooted in his family’s bulb farm in Holland.
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New Leaf Growers LLCFamily-owned New Leaf Growers is a Pipersville, Pennsylvania, wholesale greenhouse business whose team brings more than 100 years of combined experience to its work. It supplies fresh seasonal plants to big-box retailers across the Northeast, growing close to those markets to shorten transit times and support its sustainability efforts.PIPERSVILLE, PA
Donald A. Schuster GreenhouseSince Donald Schuster opened his Elyria greenhouse in 1964, Donald A. Schuster Greenhouse has grown bedding plants and other garden plants for local customers and wholesale buyers. Now run by the founder’s sons Ed, Steve, and Chuck, the third-generation family-owned greenhouse grows most of its retail plants on site and turns to pumpkins and seasonal farm activities in the fall. Its wholesale plants reach garden centers and gardens throughout Northeast Ohio, continuing a family growing tradition that began on the Murray Ridge Road property in 1927.ELYRIA, OH
Scheiderer FarmsOn the same Marysville farm worked by four generations of the Scheiderer family, Scheiderer Farms grows flowering plants and runs a family-owned garden center. Keith and Candi Scheiderer opened the greenhouse 27 years ago, and the business is best known for its carefully grown hanging baskets, including its exclusive Basket Bud collection. The farm remains a working family operation, with relatives growing field crops and raising cattle alongside the greenhouse.MARYSVILLE, OH
The Glass GreenhouseThe Glass Greenhouse grows seasonal flowers in Jamesport, serving Long Island’s East End from its own greenhouse and retail shop. Started in 2003 as a wholesale operation, it began selling surplus plants from a roadside farm stand in 2005 before becoming a full-service local greenhouse in 2010.JAMESPORT, NY