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Episode 149 - Steven Kiiskila is the Crop and Growing Team Manager at Arbutus Grove Nursery, located at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, British…
Episode 149 - Steven Kiiskila is the Crop and Growing Team Manager at Arbutus Grove Nursery, located at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, British…
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56 minutes
Released:
Nov 22, 2023
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Steven Kiiskila is the Crop and Growing Team Manager at Arbutus
Grove Nursery, located at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Each year his team grows 15 million container seedlings composed of 18 or more species, primarily for reforestation throughout Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. He has been involved in reforestation his entire career; from collecting seeds to organizing and monitoring tree planting programs, although his primary focus has been growing seedlings at various nurseries throughout British Columbia. While employed as a Seedling Reforestation Specialist, he advised
nurseries and tree seed orchards on growing practices. In this role, he also guided foresters and others planting trees on seedling stocktype selection and planting practices and established numerous outplanting trials to search for answers in overcoming reforestation challenges.
Steven loves the combination of art and science used to grow forest seedlings, and the fact that as a grower he is always learning something new.
One of his favorite tree growing sayings is: “Growing trees is not rocket science, it’s much harder.”
He has a Master of Science degree in Forest Biology
from the University of Victoria, a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, horticulture major from the University of Guelph, and a Horticulture Diploma from Olds, College.
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Grove Nursery, located at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Each year his team grows 15 million container seedlings composed of 18 or more species, primarily for reforestation throughout Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. He has been involved in reforestation his entire career; from collecting seeds to organizing and monitoring tree planting programs, although his primary focus has been growing seedlings at various nurseries throughout British Columbia. While employed as a Seedling Reforestation Specialist, he advised
nurseries and tree seed orchards on growing practices. In this role, he also guided foresters and others planting trees on seedling stocktype selection and planting practices and established numerous outplanting trials to search for answers in overcoming reforestation challenges.
Steven loves the combination of art and science used to grow forest seedlings, and the fact that as a grower he is always learning something new.
One of his favorite tree growing sayings is: “Growing trees is not rocket science, it’s much harder.”
He has a Master of Science degree in Forest Biology
from the University of Victoria, a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, horticulture major from the University of Guelph, and a Horticulture Diploma from Olds, College.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/plantatrilliontrees/support
Released:
Nov 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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