Jason Catana, who hails from Detroit but currently lives in Cedar, used to work for companies designing and manufacturing medical equipment. Catana said the firms were “relatively successful” and profitable, but work was taking him far from home and leaving him with little time to pursue his own interests.
So, three years ago, Catana decided to abandon his career path and move to northern Michigan with his wife, a Traverse City native. They purchased a home in the middle of the Leelanau Peninsula, where Catana set up a greenhouse and started planting — a lifelong passion of his.
His greenhouse grew into a small business called the Pollinators Meadow, which sells annual and perennial plants, hanging baskets, mixed planters, and vegetable and herb starts, all of which are grown on site. Pollinators Meadow opened for its second year earlier this spring, attracting returning customers and new faces with their selection grown in a pollinator-friendly habitat.
