Mansion Gardens

This week in seminar, we had the pleasure of hearing from Carole Malia Sneider, of Mansion Gardens in Jackson, Wyoming. Carole Malia and her crew at Mansion Gardens provide design work, installation, and maintenance to private residences in the Jackson Hole area. She began working in the industry as a hobby, growing two veggie gardens in the area, and has expanded her business to having about 20 gardeners on her crew.

Carole Malia attributes the success and growth of Mansion Gardens to a few strokes of good luck. Aside from inheriting clients from a friend who was getting out of the business, she also hired someone to take care of her books, rather than trying to figure all the bookkeeping out by herself, AND getting her hands dirty. She took classes to familiarize herself with the business side of things, but by having someone specifically running the books, she feels like Mansion Gardens was able to grow to the successful business that it is today.

A few things that Carole Malia emphasized were:

• Don't have doubt about what you can do; just get it done
• Do have compost
• Learn from as many sources as possible

Carole Malia was a delight as a speaker, and we wish her well in her upcoming working season. For anyone that would like additional information about Mansion Gardens, you can contact Carole Malia at maliafish@aol.com.