SAWYER, Mich. – Sawyer Home & Garden Center joined the ranks of the horticulture industry’s top local garden centers when it was named one of Today’s Garden Center magazine’s Revolutionary 100 Garden Centers for 2015.

The Revolutionary 100 program, which began in 2006, surveys garden center owners and managers on how they run their businesses. These retailers compete in a variety of areas that reveal their business health and how they impact their local communities. The Revolutionary 100 is open to all local garden centers, large and small.

“For a small town garden center we strive to do big things. Our mission is to make our customers’ homes, gardens and lives healthy and beautiful,” said Meagen McReynolds, director of communications.

Garden center owners and managers across the United States fill out an extensive online questionnaire covering topics such as customer and community service, management philosophy, marketing, use of technology, purchasing and profitability.

What makes Sawyer Home & Garden Center revolutionary is their gourmet food and fresh produce. The world is slowly changing from processed, to home grown, farm-fresh foods. The owners take a great amount of pride in locally grown produce; just ask the employees who wake up early to pick up items from local farms or those who carefully sort through the product daily, to ensure only the best produce reaches their customers.

“The garden centers that made this year’s list are an exceptional group of forward-thinking independent retailers who understand that their customers constantly evolve. The Revolutionary 100 strive to provide what customers need to succeed in the gardening lifestyle,” said Today’s Garden Center Group Editor Carol Miller. “We are proud to call them revolutionary.”

The 2015 Revolutionary 100 Awards program is run by the garden retail trade magazine Today’s Garden Center and is sponsored by AmericanHort, the national association for the garden industry.

More information on the Revolutionary 100, including the complete listing, can be found in the January 2015 issue of Today’s Garden Center magazine and at TodaysGardenCenter.com.