Tom and Sarah Rumery –Owners and Managers

Tom and Sarah are the founders/owners and have run Osage Gardens as a family-farm, mom-and-pop type business while following their passion for healthy nutritious food and love of growing things for almost 20 years now.  Tom and Sarah met, married and started a family in Fairbanks, Alaska where they lived for over 15 years.  In 1986 they moved the family to Colorado to be closer to relatives and 5 years later they moved to the western slope of Colorado and started Osage Gardens.  Tom has a truly green thumb and was always growing things as a hobby.  Together they decided to turn hobby into business –a business that would allow them to raise their three daughters and interact with the community in a positive way.  Osage Gardens has expanded and evolved but Mom and Pop are hanging on with their hands in the soil, still growing things.

Theresa Rumery – In-House Sales

Theresa is the farmer’s daughter and has returned home to answer the call of the family business.  Theresa graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in Finance and a degree in Germanic Studies.  After a four-year stint working as an international IT consultant based out of Germany, she has returned home and is happy to be working on an organic farm and thrilled to be back in Colorado.  As it turns out Green Thumbs are not hereditary and she is glad she can help out in other ways.  Theresa is the Webmaster and takes care of the In-House Sales -call her if you need to place an order.  She occasionally makes it out of the office and gets to get her hands dirty helping in the nursery or in the fields.

Irma Contreras -Packing Room Supervisor

Irma has been working for Osage Gardens for a little over two years and was destined to work here.  Irma is a second generation Osage employee, joining her mother in the packing room.  Irma is very organized and is super duper bi-lingual.  Irma organizes all the activites in the packing room, from taking orders, picking, packaging, labeling, ordering and boxing up! Irma does a great job keeping track of the orders. 

Terri Swerdlove –Bedding Plant Superstar

Terri has been with Osage Gardens since 2004 where she has been a key part of the plant care team.  Due to all of her experience and great care with the planting, transplanting, harvesting, fertilizing, watering etc, Terri was a natural fit to head up the new bedding plant division.  Prior to Osage Gardens Terri spent +10 years doing high altitude (9000 ft) gardening in Silver Plume. Terri can most likely be found in the nursery, starting more tomato seedlings or completing another plug tray of rosemary cuttings.

Steve Perreault –Head of Maintenance

Steve is the miraculous maintenance man, the go-to guy for anything that needs to be fixed, built, molded, drilled, pounded, spread, rototilled etc.  Steve has been working for Osage Gardens since 2002.  Previous to working for Osage Gardens, Steve worked for Alfalfa’s in Boulder as Head of Maintenance and even received Employee of the Year and he also owned and ran a bakery for many years with his wife Avtar.  At Osage Gardens, Steve as won some pretty prestigious awards such as rototiller of the year and he also holds the record for the number of fertilizer hauls in one day.