• The Maumee Valley Growers and Bostdorffs Greenhouse of Bowling Green hosted a pointsettia judging event that was covered by Toledo's 13ABC TV.
• The Maumee Valley Growers were part of the Maumee Uptown Business Association's 2007 Halloween festivities from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., where they'll hand out pumpkins and discount coupons for locally grown flowers and plants. Read more about it in the October 25, 2007 issue of the Port Clinton News Herald.
• The Maumee Valley Growers are one of the founding members of Toledo Choose Local, a new nonprofit organization established to promote local, independently owned businesses by creating awareness of them and their value to the community. This group was profiled in the September 28, 2007 issue of the Toledo Free Press.
• The Farmer's Market Association of Toledo hosted the 2007 annual Flower Day Weekend over the Memorial Day holiday, and once again staff from the UAC were there to enjoy the day.
• UAC friends and advisors are invited to enjoy Flower Days at the Toledo Farmers Market on May 26-28, 2007. This is your chance to find fresh local produce for your table and gorgeous flowers for your home while supporting local growers and boosting the local economy. Click here to view this year's flyer, and visit the Toledo Farmer's Martket website for more information. UT News covered this year's FlowerDay Weekend in its May 24, 2007 issue.
• UAC's Joe Perlaky coordinated a trip by Perrysburg High School students on May 11, 2007 to learn about alternative energy in Northwest Ohio.
• The Maumee Valley Growers assisted the May 2, 2007 Leadership Toledo Banquet at the last minute by providing a variety of plants for the event.
• The Maumee Valley Growers have hit the air waves with their 2007 spring TV ad (a Windows Media (WMV) file).
• The work done by the NWOERC to structure the Northwest Ohio greenhouse industry into an economic cluster was reported in the Fall 2006 issue of the Economic Development Journal (PDF file) of the International Economic Development Council.
• The Toledo Free Press highlighted the 2007 Maumee Valley Growers Calendar.
• The work done by Dr. Neil Reid and Dr. Michael Carroll to help organize Northwest Ohio's greenhouse growers into an industrial cluster was profiled in the August 2006 issue of Greenhouse Product News.
• UAC Director Neil Reid and Research Associate Paula Ross joined the members of the Great Lakes Hydroponic Association on a tour of hydroponic greenhouses in Leamington, Ontario on Wednesday, August 16, 2006.
• The Farmer's Market Association of Toledo hosted it's annual Flower Day Weekend over the Memorial Day holiday, and staff from the UAC and the CRD were there to enjoy the day.
• One the clusters identified by this project, northwest Ohio's greenhouses, has it's own website: The Maumee Valley Growers. The web site asssociated with the research underlying this project is http://www.ohiogreenhouse.com/.
• View a photo album taken at some of the Maumee Valley Growers sites.
• Representatives from U.S. Senator Mike DeWine's Office, members of the Maumee Valley Growers Advisory Board, and Representatives from the US Department of Agriculture visited one of the members of the Maumee Valley Growers, Creque's Greenhouse in Sylvania. View pictures from that visit.
• A discussion covering the concept of using clusters to promote economic development, and the specific efforts over the past three years to develop and "brand" a greenhouse cluster in Northwest Ohio, was the focus of the WBGU program The Journal on February 9, 2006 hosted by Dr. Mike Carroll of the BGSU Center for Regional Development. (This link opens a new window; select the program from 2/09/06 titled "A New Approach to Economic Development".)