Oscar Warmerdam emigrated to the United States from The Netherlands in the 1990s and he is now a U.S. citizen. He feels lucky to have landed at a forward-looking company that provided lots of on-the-job training and farming knowledge that he has used in running his own companies, Moerings -USA, LLC (MUSA) and Moerings Green Roof Maintenance, LLC. He describes farming as “a business of hope,” and feels farmers need a certain amount of cleverness and perhaps “foolishness” to succeed in an industry with so many inherent challenges.
Moerings -USA, LLC (MUSA) was founded in Georgia in 2003 focusing on the aquatics plant industry. In 2005, MUSA moved to Culpeper County where it maintains a nursery on a 160-acre farm. In 2007, the company began growing and selling green roof products. MUSA sold their aquatics plant division in 2010 and has since focused entirely on the green roof business.
MUSA and Moerings Green Roof Maintenance, LLC (MGRM) sell green roof solutions to... Read More