Suntropicals at Balzac Alberta Canada

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Suntropicals at Balzac Alberta Canada

My "Alma Mater" of life skills and work skills - seven years of incubation in the hands of a wonderful host and "boss" who never told be to do anything - simply offered creative restraint and direction. Thoroughly flourishing now, just outside the northern city limits of Calgary (soon to be annexed,) Balzac Garden Center started out as just a bunch of rag tag Quebecois and a big man with vision and some petty cash. Then I showed up and (after teaching myself how to stick weld metal greenhouse frames and soon everything else I could get my hands on,) I helped take it all the way by the next summer. When we were done, we had an acre under "glass", with a ceiling in two of the connected houses that reached for the sky, and filled it with field grown Florida tropicals worthy of their new tall house in the bitter north of Alberta. Bob and Donna Stuart have been managing the furher development since I left them for Sunrise Ranch, and now host a remarkable paradise for the green-with-envy customers flocking to this one of kind experience. Enjoy the tour...

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Suntropicals 2003 - Entry

01/29/00

Suntropicals 2003 - Entry

01/29/00

Suntropicals 2003 - Entry

01/29/00

Suntropicals 2003 - The Store

01/29/00

Suntropicals 2003 - The Store

01/29/00

Suntropicals 2003 - The Store

01/29/00

Suntropicals 2003 - The Greenhouses

06/26/03

Suntropicals 2003 - The Greenhouses

01/29/00

Suntropicals 2003 - The Greenhouses

06/26/03