ACS Student leading industry
In 2005, with a business plan and a passion to grow things, Lana Mitchell
enrolled in several courses with the ACS. She did the hydroponics course,
and then a course on growing cut-flowers, and with these, she started a
venture growing the Australian native flannel flower using hydroponics.
Within a year she won a scholarship that enabled her to continue her
studies, including a course on propagation by cuttings and a course on
horticultural marketing. Within 2 years, she was exporting flowers to Japan,
USA, Europe and the UK, and quickly gaining a reputation as having some of,
if not the best quality Flannel flower in the country.
In the last 3 years, Lana has won the Young Achievers Award from the Flowers
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