Scott Sloan oversees the care and maintenance of infrastructure, and building projects, at NTBG's properties on the south shore of Kaua`i, including its headquarters campus and research facilities, McBryde Garden, and Allerton Garden, as well as properties outside the gardens proper, such as the Southshore Visitors Center Garden.
While pursuing his horticultural degree in the University of California system in the late 1980s, he graduated from NTBG’s Horticultural Internship Program. This experience led to the institution forming a special internship at its Kahanu Garden in 1989 and requesting that Mr. Sloan stay on in that capacity. Subsequently, he held various horticultural positions in the McBryde Garden, with increased levels of responsibility, and headed both the gardening and physical facilities departments for 12 years.
In addition to caring for the existing physical facilities (including buildings, irrigation, roads, stream crossings, and paths), projects include seeking an alternative water supply by restoring a tunnel system that once existed in the plantation era. He is also working on the expansion of housing facilities for students and visiting scientists.
His professional affiliations include the Landscape Industry Council of Hawai‘i and the Steering Committee of the Kaua‘i Landscape Industry Council.
While pursuing his horticultural degree in the University of California system in the late 1980s, he graduated from NTBG’s Horticultural Internship Program. This experience led to the institution forming a special internship at its Kahanu Garden in 1989 and requesting that Mr. Sloan stay on in that capacity. Subsequently, he held various horticultural positions in the McBryde Garden, with increased levels of responsibility, and headed both the gardening and physical facilities departments for 12 years.
In addition to caring for the existing physical facilities (including buildings, irrigation, roads, stream crossings, and paths), projects include seeking an alternative water supply by restoring a tunnel system that once existed in the plantation era. He is also working on the expansion of housing facilities for students and visiting scientists.
His professional affiliations include the Landscape Industry Council of Hawai‘i and the Steering Committee of the Kaua‘i Landscape Industry Council.
Michael (Mike) DeMotta has served as Assistant Director of Living Collections and Horticulture for the NTBG organization since the latter part of 2006. He previously served as Horticulturist and then Manager of Living Collections at NTBG’s Limahuli Garden and Preserve.
Mr. DeMotta was born and raised in Honolulu and attended the University of Hawai`i. His interest in horticulture was inherited from his family, and he began growing orchids and ferns at the age of 12. His exposure in school to Hawaiian studies and the art of hula led to a keen interest in native Hawaiian plants, which he began growing in earnest in 1997. During this time he developed many of his own techniques to germinate plants from seeds and cuttings which were otherwise difficult to grow.
He oversees the living collections and horticultural practices of the organization’s gardens, with a particular focus on the collections at NTBG’s southshore gardens and adjacent Headquarters.
Mr. DeMotta was born and raised in Honolulu and attended the University of Hawai`i. His interest in horticulture was inherited from his family, and he began growing orchids and ferns at the age of 12. His exposure in school to Hawaiian studies and the art of hula led to a keen interest in native Hawaiian plants, which he began growing in earnest in 1997. During this time he developed many of his own techniques to germinate plants from seeds and cuttings which were otherwise difficult to grow.
He oversees the living collections and horticultural practices of the organization’s gardens, with a particular focus on the collections at NTBG’s southshore gardens and adjacent Headquarters.
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