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About Our Wholesale Nursery
and Sustainable Growing Practices

Our process, our people, our land
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How We Grow

How do we produce exceptional, fully finished, landscape-ready plants year after year? It’s intentional. We do it by:

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indulging our curiosity
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exploring new ideas
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learning from mistakes
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respecting nature and our land

Our growing systems, processes and technologies are informed by our embrace of experimentation and innovation.

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Take a look at our field operation and learn about our innovative 8 step growing process. Then schedule a nursery tour to meet our staff and see our plants in person.

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The Waverly Farm Playbook for for Growing Outstanding Landscape Stock Year After Year

Your success as a landscape professional depends on developing long-term partnerships with the most reliable growers as trusted sources for high quality plant stock.

This eBook will help you in your search by identifying key characteristics to look for in a grower capable of producing plants that have year over year consistency in health, size, and fullness.

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Our Land

I chose the site for Waverly Farm based on its high quality soil. We recognize the value of these soils and are dedicated to preserving them. We have reserved nearly 50 acres for grass aisles and perimeter strips throughout the nursery to prevent soil erosion. To assure soil is always available for production and to replace what is sold with plants, we add 210 tons per acre of compost with each planting rotation.

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Our People

Waverly Farm is a 200 acre wholesale field production nursery located in Adamstown, Maryland growing more than 400 varieties of large-sized, fully finished landscape shrubs and trees.

From the beginning, we aspired to leave the farm better than we found it. That aspiration has evolved into a sustainable growing system that builds and replaces the living soil we sell with our plants. The soil we create and ship with our plants dramatically improves their ability to survive transplantation and thrive in adjacent growing zones to the northwest and northeast of our Zone 7 location.

Our people are dedicated to delivering plant material of lasting value in an atmosphere of service, expert advice, trust, and friendship. We go all out to develop mutually beneficial partnerships with our customers. This isn’t a job for us. It’s what we love.

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Jerry Faulring

Owner & Grower

Jerry started his career in 1970 after earning a B.S. Agronomy degree from Purdue, first working at Summit Hall Turf Farm in Gaithersburg, MD. In 1973 he co-founded what became a five state regional lawn service called Hydro Lawn based in Gaithersburg. In 1990 he started his nursery production career with 25 acres known as River Farm Nursery. The land for Waverly Farm was purchased in 1996 with planting begun in 1997. His responsibilities today include propagation, all aspects of field production, a broad interest in improving nursery production through many research initiatives, and various administrative activities. He says he is a businessman first who just happens to be growing plants, but his love of agriculture generally and enjoyment gained through the production of ornamental plants suggests he is a grower first.

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Laura Hagmann

Sales and Shipping

As a Managing Editor at Bloomberg BNA, I was responsible for leading a team of editors and research analysts to develop and maintain content on state, federal, and international HR law. After twelve years, I decided it was time to try something different. I found it at Waverly Farm. 

Given my background, the nursery business did not look like the perfect fit. And yet, I soon found that research, administrative, and customer service skills from my previous career transferred smoothly into my new role at Waverly Farm.

Whether I was saving my mother's house plants from dehydration or rescuing volunteer trees from sudden lawn mower death, I have always been moved by a passion for plants, soil, and anything green. I feel so fortunate that this late in my career, Jerry took a chance on a completely inexperienced yet enthusiastic applicant, and I'm finally doing what I love. Each day is spent expanding my brain learning Latin plant names, improving my plant identification skills, and figuring out ways to provide the best customer service that I can. 

I earned my BA from Hood College, and an MBA from American University. I worked for many years in legal publishing, before moving to Frederick to get away from the DC rat race. Prior to that I was living and working in Europe and Africa. 

At home, I live with two crazy dogs and two lazy cats. My son and daughter are launched from the nest and currently living in Seattle, which provides lots of great travel opportunities into a gardener's paradise.

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Laura Martinez

Sales and Administration

I grew up in New Jersey and moved to Maryland when I was accepted into the University of Maryland’s College of Agriculture & Natural Resources. During that time, I had the opportunity to work alongside graduate students studying soybean cyst nematodes and developed a deep understanding of environmental conservation and sustainable practices. I received my B.S. in Natural Resources Management in 2004 from the University of Maryland and worked briefly before putting my career aside to raise my two beautiful children. I returned to the workforce as an accounts payable clerk where I dedicated over 7 years to providing quality work and support for my coworkers, as well as our vendors. When I came across the open position at Waverly Farm, I did not hesitate to apply. I’ve already learned so much and look forward to continuously learning about the nursery and the trees and shrubs that grow here. When I am not working or being a cheerleader for my children, I enjoy gardening, hiking, and crocheting.

 

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Eusebio Carmona (aka Chino)

Farm Manager

I grew up at Waverly Farm, taking over as Forman when my Father retired years ago.  I am bilingual and serve as the main communication between the office and the field, making sure everything is seamless. I manage all the equipment, planting, digging and shipping and staff, whom I’m able to delegate tasks to, like irrigation and loading. I have a great crew that comes over from Mexico each year who know the business and work really well together. When I’m not working I spend time with my family, go swimming in the local river, play in a band and go out dancing.

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Terry Hoyt

New England Sales

Growing up in the industry, I learned at a very young age what it's like to put your back into the better end of a shovel. My father owned and operated Meadowyck Nursery in Vincentown NJ, offering landscape design/build along with a 6 acre nursery growing Taxus, Arborvitae, japanese holly and boxwood. The early years on the job with my Dad and brothers taught me the value of hard work and the pride associated with a job well done. After graduating Rowan University (back then Glassboro State) I was faced with the major question of what to do with my life. After a few years of dead end jobs in the airline industry I fell back on my love for horticulture. In 1988 I started as the inside sales rep for Medford Nursery in Medford NJ. I was awarded my first sales territory for Robert Baker Companies in !989 covering lower New England. Thirty two years later, here I am, loving what I do and proud to say that I am standing on my fathers shoulders with the same passion for making this world a greener place. Having a passion for swimming and the piano, I still find time to get dirt under my fingernails.

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H2A Worker Program

Each year we bring in a crew of 18-21 gentlemen from Hidalgo, Mexico under the H2A program.  The guys chose amongst themselves who comes back each year, and some have been coming for around 20 years!  In their free time they enjoy talking with family, playing soccer, cooking, swimming and dancing.  They spend 10 months out of the year here, returning for winter to get some time with their friends and family, and to work on their houses. They work very hard and you can often find them singing in the fields, even on the very hottest of days.

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