Robin Brumfield

Dr. Robin G. Brumfield is Professor Emeritus from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA, and has been the Farm Management Extension Specialist at Rutgers since 1988. She is internationally known for her work in horticultural economics. Her Greenhouse Cost Accounting Program is the standard in the greenhouse industry. She wrote the marketing and business management chapters for the best-selling textbook, Greenhouse Operations and Management, by Dr. Paul V. Nelson. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Horticulture with a minor in Economics and Business from North Carolina State University. Dr. Brumfield was named a Fellow of ASHS in 2012; this is the highest honor the society bestows. Dr. Robin Brumfield has been working with the New Jersey Annie’s Project Team as state co-leader since 2011. She collaborated with the team to conduct focus groups to adapt this program from the mid-west to conditions in an urban state. She has arranged the workshops so that the women complete a business plan as part of the workshop.