B.S. - Plant Sciences & Landscape Systems, 2004 Area of emphasis: Landscape Design

In his first job out of college, Ryan is responsible for the grounds at the front entrance, clubhouse, 65-room mansion. He had a huge first year as head horticulturist, such as getting national exposure on the July 4th weekend on CBS in association with the Golf Club's Ladies Match Play World Tournament. Ryan lives 50 miles outside of New York City in Somerset County, NJ.

"My main focus is to manage the grounds of our 65-room Georgian style mansion, clubhouse, and front entrance. This entails managing turf, herbaceous plants, woody plants, roads, member parking lot, containers, and everything in between. I do all chemical and fertilizer applications along side our spray technician. There are countless projects that I have proposed, are under construction, and some that are completed. Most recently, I designed a plant emblem for our golf club(photo included). We are building 18 4,000-5,000 sF cottages on our property. I have been asked to design a gated cottage entrance way and countless enhancements to the existing project site. I have extended our clubhouse patio area with more hardscapes and added more perennial gardens. I do not take care of the US Equestrian Team grounds, but I do consulting work with them on new garden designs and other projects they have going on."

"I am working very, very hard at my new job and I absolutely love coming to work everyday! I want to say thank you to the University of Tennessee for all the support over the past few years and for helping me grow into a mature, professional working class horticulturist."

Hamilton Farm Golf Club is just breaking out of its infancy as a golf club. The vision for Hamilton Farm began in 1911, when James Cox Brady decided to create an English country estate in the green fields and woodlands of Somerset Hills, New Jersey. At its zenith, Brady's estate, bearing his wife's family name, spread across five thousand acres, encompassing pastures, woods, horse trails and formal gardens. The farm produced its own food and prize-winning livestock. A magnificent fifty stall equestrian stable, the largest and most lavish of its kind at the time of its construction in 1916, housed a variety of breeds from Hackney ponies and hunters to Clydesdale and Percheron draft horses. Today, there are 2 beautiful golf courses inplace of the prize-winning livestock and pastures. The golf course architects designed the courses to keep the rich heritage of the land intact, all the while manipulating the pastures into putting greens.