Andy Harding was elected President-Elect at the ONLA Annual Business Meeting on January 25, 2011. He has worked in the Green Industry since 1970 when he started at a garden center in England. He earned a degree in commercial horticulture in England and worked for 10 years at Hillier Nursery in Winchester, England as a department manager.

Andy moved to Perry, Ohio in 1982 and has lived and worked in Lake County, Ohio since then. Andy is a Past President of the Nursery Growers of Lake County, a Past President of Associated Green Industry, and has served on Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association (ONLA) committees for over 25 years. He has been the Production Manager at Losely Nursery for 13 years and continues to enjoy being in the Green Industry and working with the great nursery people around the state and country. Harding remarks, “The ONLA is a leader in the industry and a great organization to be involved with to better our Green Industry.”