Knight Hollow Nursery

Cloning plants while customers multiply

Big Idea:
What started as a basement venture for Dr. Deborah McCown grew into an international business growing trees and shrubs. Knight Hollow Nursery, Inc. uses cloning technology and a growing medium invented by her husband, Dr. Brent McCown, at the University of Wisconsin. The success of the venture has translated into 350,000 plants sold and shipped every year and now KHN is working to help endangered species for the U.S. Forest Service, blueberries for Michigan, and new hardy wine grapes for boutique wineries throughout the Midwest.

Knight Hollow Nursery
Owner: Dr. Deborah D. McCown
Company Founded: 1981, Middleton, WI, USA
Employees: 5