Thomas Ford
Extension Educator
Expertise:
- Greenhouse Production
- Nursery Production
- Landscape Management
- Turf Management
- Tree Fruit Production
- Vegetable and Small Fruit Production
- Hydroponic Production
- Specialty Cut Flower Production
- Grape Production
- Hops Production
Contact:
- Phone: 814-472-7986
- Email: tgf2@psu.edu
- Location:
- Cambria County
Tom has worked for over 39 years with Cooperative Extension in Maryland, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. During his career he has worked intensively with vegetable growers, fruit growers, greenhouse operations, nurseries, landscape operations, turf professionals, and area farmers with their production and pest management issues.
Tom is a native of Central Maryland and resides with his wife, Laura and their four sons in Duncansville, PA. Tom has a B.S. degree in Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Maryland and a MBA from Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD. Tom currently serves as a Commercial Horticulture Educator with Penn State Extension and is housed in the Cambria County Extension Office in Ebensburg, PA.
B.S. in Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Maryland at College Park, MD
MBA from Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD
MBA from Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD