Don Riddle is President of Homestead Gardens, the largest enclosed garden center in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metropolitan areas and the second-largest single location independent garden center in the United States. He founded Homestead Gardens in 1970 in the back yard of his home in Hyattsville, MD. The company’s growing division, Homestead Growers, incorporates two farms totaling more than 250 acres and includes a 5-acre state-of-the-art greenhouse. Homestead Gardens was honored with the 2008 Dick Morey Nursery Retailer of the Year award from Nursery Retailer and was named Garden Center of the Year by the Garden Centers of America in 2004.