Passion for gardening turns into growing business
Cedar Valley Business Monthly | July 6, 2011 | By Dave Rasdal
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa— Josh Spece pushes a little joystick forward and happily zips along a gravel path among hundreds of varieties of hostas surrounding his home. He doesn’t allow his wheelchair to block his dreams.
Spece, 31, couldn’t walk as a baby and was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy. He grew up playing in the garden, graduated from high school in Independence and earned a horticulture degree from Hawkeye Community College. In 1998 on his parents’ farm, Spece opened a garden and gifts store, In the Country.
“Plants have just always been something I’ve been interested in. Even when I was little we had a vegetable garden and I was always out there with Mom.”
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