President
Bill Jones
Bill is President and Founder of Carolina Native Nursery. He is responsible for the great staff at Carolina Native Nursery. Bill resigned from sales and marketing with AT&T in 1991 to be the founder and President of Terra Systems in Charlotte, N.C. specializing in organic-based lawn and shrub care services. Terrsa Systems was sold to Scotts. Inc in late 2001. Bill is a member in good standing of The Sierra Club, The N.C. Nurseryman and Landscape Association, International Plant Propagators Society, and the Asheville Rugby Club. He has served on the Charlotte Tree Commission, Earthday Charlotte Festival (chairman), the Asheville Tree Commission (chair for 4 years), the Strategic Planning Council for the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service for NC A&T University, and the Asheville Civic Center Commission. He has also served on the board of trustees for The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy and Asheville GreenWorks. Bill founded Carolina Native to aid in the preservation of the plants, birds, butterflies, bees, and the rest of the flora and fauna that make western N.C. one of the truly special places in the world. Bill lives in Asheville with his wife, Jill. His son and daughter-in-law, Will and Hannah, live in Atlanta and his youngest son, Henry, lives in NYC.