You may have noticed that we are making several changes to our web site.  We are trying to make your visit memorable, and to make the site easier to use.  To these ends we have:

1.  Changed the web name from WF-Poodle.com (and WF-Canine.com, WF-Poodles.com, and WFPoodles.com) to `WinterberryKennels.com.  The long term intent is to have a single entry point to the site.  The old names will still work for a while, but will bring you to the new site.  The email, james@WF-Poodle.com has not changed.

2.  Changed the name of the kennel from Winterberry Farms Poodles to Winterberry Kennels.  We have been Winterberry Farms for over 18 years, but the name was more relevant to the plant nursery than the kennel.  The designation, Farms can carry a bad connotation to a kennel. 

Winterberry Farms Tissue Culture was established in 1990 to grow plants for the parent company, Rowen Gardens  (established in 1988).   In 1994, the tissue culture laboratory started selling plants to other growers and began to specialize in the in-vitro propagation of Hosta.  The laboratory, located in Georgia,  primarily grew plants for smaller nurseries specializing in newer varieties.  With over 200  varieties of Hosta in the laboratory at any one time, Winterberry Farms was in a position to fill the needs of many smaller nurseries for Hosta and other perennials. 

    Jim and Betty Anderson have run Winterberry Farms Nursery for the past 18 years, shipping wholesale plants to customers in the USA, Canada, and Europe.  The Nursery has now been closed as we begin to retire.  We now raise Poodles, Papillions,  Cavaliers and Bichon Frise x Poodles as an avocation of our retirement.  This is more "house pets" producing puppies than a true business, but it makes sense to sell the puppies using our Winterberry Farms business skills.  We are not a puppy farm (and no longer call ourselves Winterberry Farms)  as we believe that we are producing individuals (pets) that will form life-long relationships with their owners.

     Winterberry Kennels is located on a small farm set in Central Georgia that is easily accessible from Atlanta, Griffin, Newnan, Fayetteville, La Grange, and Thomaston.  The Kennel is about 20 miles off Interstate 85.  With 7 acres, the Kennel has enough land to provide adequate living space for the dogs.  Large pens are used instead of small runs so the dogs do not get bored.

  Jim brings his research skills to raising poodles and Betty brings her communication skills to marketing them.  You can view bios of both of us below. 

James (Jim) M. Anderson, Ph.D.  A retired Associate Professor of Crop Science and Botany at North Carolina State University and retired Plant Physiologist with the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.  He did research on several aspects of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry with an emphasis on Plant Growth Regulators while at the University of Georgia and N.C. State.  Jim has over 30 years experience in plant tissue culture.  He has a degree in Ornamental Horticulture from UCLA and a doctorate in Plant Physiology from Purdue University.  Jim has a long term interest in plant propagation and how plants adapt to their environment.  He is available to do consulting on plant propagation, plant tissue culture and give lectures, or more accurately talks to lay audiences, on several aspects of gardening.  These services are provided through the parent company Rowinter.  James@WF-Poodle.com. 

While at the University of Georgia, Jim studied bioluminescence (organisms that glow in the dark).  He traveled to the far east and went on two scientific cruses to study luminescent organisms of the deep seas.

Jim clearly has a long term love of dogs going back to childhood.  He has spent long hours researching all aspects of Poodles, including the genetics of coat color and genetic disorders.  Some of the results of that research can be found on pages within this website.