Meet the Greenhouse Management magazine staff

Kelli Rodda, Editorial Director

As editorial director of GIE Media’s ornamental publications, Kelli Rodda seeks out and delivers essential information to help green-industry businesses improve their bottom line. She’s visited several hundred nurseries and greenhouses — from mom-and-pops to massive operations — across the United States. She’s also seen some of the most high-tech operations in Holland.

She resides in Azle, Texas, with her husband Jason and daughter Molly, as well as a gaggle of pets. She sometimes bewilders her GIE Media coworkers, who are based in Ohio, with her odd Southern expressions. She enjoys container gardening and blurring the Hardiness Zones by experimenting with lots of plants. Her favorite plants: the American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua); Salvia sp.; and Viola tricolor. She also enjoys spending time in the mountains and the forest.

Kelli is proud to represent an industry that characterizes hard work, integrity and professionalism. She enjoys being part of an industry responsible for products that do so much for human nature and the environment.

She’s been a professional journalist for three decades, specializing exclusively in business-to-business publications. Reach her by email here.

Patrick Alan Coleman, Editor

Patrick Alan Coleman is editor of Garden Center, Greenhouse Management and Produce Grower magazines. An avid home gardener with his wife and two boys in Northeast Ohio, Patrick is co-president of his neighborhood garden club. With two decades of journalistic experience, he is now deeply devoted to exploring the issues and trends most important to the independent garden center and greenhouse industries. Reach him by email here.

Emily Mills, Associate Editor

Emily Mills is associate editor of Garden Center, Greenhouse Management and Produce Grower magazines. A Kent State University graduate, Emily spent seven years as a newspaper reporter in Ohio before joining the business-to-business publication industry. She enjoys hiking, yoga and crocheting, and she's never met a hydrangea she didn't like. Reach her by email here.