A fifth-generation farmer and nurseryman, Edmund C. Snodgrass is the founder of the first and only green roof nursery in North America: Green Roof Plants. He is also the owner and president of Emory Knoll Farms Inc, supplying plants for over three-hundred green roofs covering two and a half million square feet internationally.
Ed is a committed conservationist and has put most of his land into an agricultural preservation trust. He is a member of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute, the Maryland Nurseryman’s Association, and the International Plant Propagators Society.
Ed has lectured at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard, the World Green Roof Congress in London, the 2008 ASLA National Meeting, the US Botanic Garden in Washington DC, and for the Garden Writers of America in 2006.
In his spare time, Ed enjoys basketball and photography.
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