You love working in the dirt, planting vegetable gardens, flower gardens, shrubs, and or orchards, bringing life to the organisms that bring us beauty and joy.

But you've gone as far as you can with your green thumb, and now the only other place to go is your own retail garden center.

And share your skills with the masses.

Today we'll learn the ups and downs of the retail garden center business

and then talk with Ben Christen of Newley Nursery in Hayden, Idaho,

whose family-owned nursery has been going strong for over 20 years

on today's business buffet ingredients episode.

We have all wondered what are the ups and downs of different types of businesses.

As business owners, we've even wondered if starting another business is the best option.

Business buffet ingredients is meant to give you a taste for what it takes to start and successfully run a business.

We'll reach out into the world of business and interview success stories and present them

on our smorgasbord of business helping options.

Strap in and get ready to taste the finer business points.

Welcome to today's business ingredients episode on starting a retail garden center.

Now, gardeners are definitely people who love to be outdoors and working the soil is what

feeds their soul.

Most gardeners start work early before the sun has any strength when the garden is at its best with early morning dew on the ground and the birds busy with their lives of finding food and feeding their young. It is truly a passion, which is why a garden center, or as sometimes referred to as a nursery, is a place where plants are

grown to usable size. A garden center, there are like three main categories for plant nurseries,

which are wholesale, retail, and mail order. The wholesale nurseries, which deal with bulk sale of

plants, retail nurseries, which deal with the small-scale sale of plants,

and mail-order nurseries, which deal with the sale through the mail.

That's a nice rhyme.

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