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Rooted Forestry
Rooted Forestry
Better Roots, Better Forests

  • Our team of passionate Root Nerds

    Rooted Forestry is a group of nurseries all chasing our passion for growing premium plants for our customers while adding value to their systems. Our nursery partners are situated in strategic locations based on their market objectives and growing environments for their crops.

Michael Taylor

Owner / Sales agent

Michael Taylor

Michael spent 15 years in forestry in the Pacific Northwest managing large scale bareroot farms, greenhouses, and a seed processing plant. Michael earned an MS in Forest Science in nursery management and reforestation and a BS in Forest management from Oregon State University.

An experienced nursery manager and grower passionate about cultivating trees and improving efficiencies through innovative and creative problem solving. Strong operations professional skilled in nursery analytics, team development, budgeting, SOP development, science-based protocols, and utilization of new technologies.

A self-proclaimed tree nerd who enjoys diving deep into the physiology and morphology of the plants he grows to give the trees the best growth and out-plant performance possible.

My passion for plants and people brings together a unique skill set which drives best in class teams and processes. 

Inland Desert Nursery

(Benton City, WA) – Inland Empire (Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, 
Idaho, Montana, and harsher sites in the western parts of those states.) 

Inland Desert Nursery is a family-owned and operated nursery in Benton City, Washington, where the Judkins family has supplied growers across North America with clean, healthy plant material for more than 40 years. Founded by Tom Judkins-who pioneered Washington’s first certified Winegrape mother blocks with the support of Dr. Walter Clore-our mission remains rooted in patient investment, disciplined clean-plant production, and a long-term commitment to grower success. Today, Kevin Judkins is leading the next evolution of Inland Desert with those same roots, building on our investment in developing, teaching, and empowering highly trained plant-care staff to expand thoughtfully into new nursery crops that uniquely outperform in our inland desert climate and growing season- upported by industry-leading biosecurity and clean-plant systems for everything we grow, from grapevines to conifer trees. 
Inland Desert Nursery

Rooted Forestry Nursery

AT17 and AT24 product sizes 

Rooted Forestry Nursery located in Sherwood, Oregon produces larger stocktypes for the coastal regions of Oregon and Washington. It is a grow out location where small cell seedlings are sown and grown at Inland Desert Nursery then transplanted into the larger cells to be finished. 

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