Growing Passions into Family Business with Michel and Veronique Sallin | The Ground Up Podcast Ep. 6

10/15/24 • 80 min

Founders of Cherrylake and IMG Citrus Michel and Veronique Sallin talk about their entrepreneurial journey, the importance of purpose, passion and values to growing a successful family business, and how they learned to transform adversity into opportunity. They discuss the importance of diversification, vertical integration and differentiation in agri-business, and share a few life lessons they learned along the way.

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Dr. Patrick Bohlen is an ecologist and a professor of Biology at the University of Central Florida. Patrick has an extensive research and teaching background in ecosystem ecology, agroecology., urban ecology and wetland ecology. As director of Landscape and Natural Resources, and the Arboretum at UCF, Patrick oversaw landscape design and operations, natural lands management and student and public engagement programs. Patrick is a founding member of the OUTSIDE Sustainable Landscaping Collaborative, a non-profit dedicated to increasing the adoption of sustainable landscape practices in Florida. He was recently named the new director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, in Madison, WI.