Meet the Team
Kristina MacPherson
Kristina’s interest in the horticultural industry started at a young age. She attended an Agricultural High School where she focused on Arboriculture — the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants. She then continued on to get her bachelor’s degree Ecology & Environmental Sciences, with a concentration in Entomology, at the University of Maine in Orono. She also completed a minor in horticulture & botany.
Kristina has worked in the organic industry for the past 10 years. She has had some amazing opportunities to work with some of the leaders in the industry. She has completed internships at the UMass Cranberry Station, the Skillins Greenhouse in Falmouth, Maine, Briggs Nursery in North Attleboro MA, and at the UMaine Experiment Station in Presque Isle, Maine. She has also had the opportunity to orchestrate the renovation and conversion of a 2 acre plot at the National Mall to an organic lawn care program.
Kristina’s certifications include: MCLP(Mass Certified Landscape Professional), NOFA AOLCP (Accredited Organic Lawn Care Professional), Mass Commercial Applicators Certification Category 36 & 37.
She currently lives in Maine with her husband and son. She loves to garden organically and cook and can the fruits and vegetables she produces.
Meet our Brighton Manager, James Hohmann
James Hohmann is the general manager of our Brighton (formerly Cambridge) store. He’s been with Mahoney’s Garden Centers since 1990, after graduating from Cornell University, where he studied landscape architecture and horticulture. His expertise is in perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, and design.
His garden designs have won many Massachusetts Horticultural Society awards and gold medals, Allen Haskell awards, Arnold Arboretum awards, and awards from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, American Horticultural Society, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and numerous others. (Editor’s note: Wow!)
And coming soon to this very blog are articles by James. Stay tuned.
The Uncle Mike's Gang on Facebook
Uncle Mike’s brand herbs and vegetables actually looks like fun to me, from just perusing their new photo album on our Facebook page. My favorite is the album of Uncle Mike’s Staff and Greenhouse, but check out the edibles here and some lovely flower photos, too. All photos by Rebecca Rondeau, who’s all thumb’s up in the collage below.
More staffers in this collagee are Eva Zelenka on the upper left and BK Noonan in the second row.

Below you see Tracey Martin and Ryan Wholey in the top row. Then the foursome below are (L-R) Ryan Wholey, Jim McGinn, Jeff Storry and Hy Sam. The behatted fellow below is Uncle Mike himself - Mike Mahoney - looking a lot like his logo self, doncha think? What art work!

Uncle Mike Mahoney
The Guy
Mike’s 41 and married with 3 kids - a boy 12 , a girl 7 and a boy 5.
The Gardener
Mike loves all gardening but says he’s known for the veggies.
Peter Vera
Peter Vera has been in the garden-center business for 25 years now, 20 of them with Mahoney’s, and he’s now our “Visual Merchandising” manager. (And sometimes we call him our “style guru”.)
How Peter got into gardening is a familiar story - he was raised on it. As a kid he helped his parents garden at their summer cottage on the Cape, where his dad was into land “shapes” and his mom was into plants, but Peter says they worked well together as a team.
About his work at Mahoney’s, Peter says it takes up most of his time (and not complaining - he loves it!), so at home he just has time to plant up containers on his deck.
Peter loves to experiment and figure out solutions for gardening, and is into bio-diversity in the landscape. “I believe that the more diversity we have, the stronger our environment will be.”
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