Nathan Bell

Nathan is an avid horticulturalist and professionally is the Greenhouse Manager at College of the Ozarks and maintains the Clint McDade Orchid Collection. He has a B.S. in Horticulture and enjoys working with students while operating the greenhouse system producing numerous crops. He presents talks to Master Gardeners and local flower and orchid societies in the Midwest about the love of growing orchids.

He has been growing orchids since he was a teenager and joined the AOS in the ‘90s. He joined the judging program in 2005 and currently is an Accredited Judge in the Mid-America Judging Center, in St. Louis. He is the past Chair, and current Education Coordinator of the Mid-America JC. He serves as Vice Chair of the Judging Committee and Chair of the Ethics Task Force. He also serves on the Show Schedule Committee of the Mid-America Orchid Congress. He is a member of the Springfield Orchid Society and has been past president and show chair.