Springtime with Sleepy Cat Farm: Trellis Talk and Demonstration with Alan Gorkin

Alan studied ornamental Horticulture at Michigan State University and began his career working for Cornell University training Master Gardeners and assisting in the  Plant Diagnostic laboratory at Cooperative Extension of Nassau County,  Long Island.  Following this he became an instructor in the  Children’s Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden teaching  Botany and Vegetable Gardening to inner city youths. After a  move to the Horticulture Department, he managed the Cranford Rose Garden and later became Plant Propagator for the Garden collections.

Eventually Alan moved back to Long Island and managed the greenhouse and cutting gardens at Historic Old Westbury Gardens before  he and his wife purchased Earth Garden Florist,  Nursery and Greenhouses in New Canaan, Ct which is still operating as a florist.

For the past 15 years, Alan has been Property manager and Horticulturist at Sleepy cat farm in Greenwich, Ct.