Need Indoor Plant / Botanical Specialist

un need indoor plant / botanical specialist (SE Portland) compensation: negotiable I just signed a lease on a 4000 square foot office space in inner SE Portland. In July or August we will be opening a mental health clinic, including 14 offices. My plan is to turn the office into a low-key botanical garden using grow lights. The offices and hallways have overhead tube light fixtures that we'll retrofit with LED grow tubes on timers, running overnight when the clinic is empty, off during the workday when the clinic uses window light and floor lamps. So we'll have 10-12 hours per day with the tubs on, and we may add supplemental grow lights for species that need more. I'm open minded as to how this project will work but I see it happening in phases: 1. Design: We look at the space and figure out what is possible, what equipment and materials we will need. 2. Planning: We start accumulating plants, pots, soil, fertilizer, lights, stands. Maybe some offsite propagation begins. 3. Installation: Plants are set up in various locations. Maintenance responsibilities are defined (i.e. can the clinic maintain some plants or some areas of plants) 4. Maintenance: on an ongoing basis, plants are repotted, cut, propagated. Infrastructure may need to be developed/increased along the way. 5. Production: This is the phase I'm most excited about. I'd love for the space to function as a botanical studio where plants are propagated for retail. The clinic owns the mother plants and provides the space, lights, and water, while you use the space to propagate new plants and keep the proceeds from selling them (farmer's markets, plant shops, online, etc). Open to figuring out the structure together. For the first 4 phases, it makes sense to pay for the labor at an hourly rate. If interested, please tell me about your experience in the plant world! Also would want to know what your typical hourly rate would be. Thanks! Jeremy Whiston Pluto Mental Health post id: ... updated: [ ]