Growing from the roots up

My father, Edward Murray, started his nursery and landscaping career in 1955. In 1970, he and my mother, Rita, brought an old dairy farm in the Town of Saratoga to start a nursery and landscape business. They named it Springbrook Farms. Mom and Dad taught my brother, Bruce, my two sisters and me about appreciating nature and working with the land.

In 1976, Dad bought land in Ballston Spa and started a retail garden center, naming it Brookside Farms Nursery. Bruce and I assumed leadership in 1989 after many years serving as apprentices.

Today, we're known as Brookside Nursery.

-- Ian Murray