Employees tend to their adopted beds in the Merit Medical Employee Gardens.
Merit Medical Urban Garden Crops and Company Culture Flourish as Good Medicine By Claire McArthur
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employee garden program on one-acre
looked out his office window and watched
of previously unused land, creating
as throngs of employees from the medical
80 100-square-foot garden beds for
device company’s South Jordan campus
employees to adopt. Over the last five
walked across the street to a 3-acre farm
years, the garden has grown to include a
to pick tomatoes and peppers thanks to an
small orchard, a commercial greenhouse,
invitation from a local farmer. He saw the
a U-Pick garden, and enough fruits and
enthusiasm from his employees and an
vegetables to supplement the produce
idea formed.
at Merit’s two on-site cafeterias (where
ix years ago, Merit Medical Systems founder and CEO, Fred Lampropoulos,
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In 2016, Merit Medical launched its
