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Incubating the Farm Industry in SC

By Mike Switzer
Brinton Fox
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After growing up on a farm, our next guest went to college with plans to become a lawyer specializing in environmental law.  But her interests soon gravitated back to the dirt itself which motivated her to enroll in a farm incubator program and start a cut flower business.

Mike Switzer interviews Brinton Fox, owner of Boone Fox Farm in Columbia, SC.

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Mike Switzer
After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.
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