We all have hobbies that we develop over time. Some people may a love of landscaping, for others maybe it’s a sport, or if you’re anything like us, it’s heating. Just like we enjoy working to keep you cozy throughout the year, we also love helping others chase their passions to become experts.
Recently, we completed our “Experts Creating Experts” contest in which we gave away $25,000 to get expertise and education in one thing you are most passionate about. Ideas ranged from lifelong dreams of becoming a chef to writing a line of children’s books to inspire wonderment. The Grand Prize winners, Mike and Jillian, entered to become expert foragers, gathering wild plants and foods from nature. After being one of five finalists chosen from a group of judges, the public voted through Facebook and now, Mike and Jillian are traveling all around New York and Massachusetts to visit with artisan farmers, a dairy farm and even a distillery.
Be sure to watch the video above and follow them on their journey!
We realize that heating and cooling likely isn’t everyone’s passion, but it is obviously a passion of ours to give back to communities like Cocoa. After all, you have helped make us the heating and cooling experts in this neck of the woods. And for that, we thank you.
Remember them?
Mike and Jillian won $25,000 in Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning’s Experts Creating Experts Contest so they could become expert foragers. Foragers collect wild plants and foods from nature.
This fall, they’ll leave for the first stint of their trip. Mike & Jillian will be driving around New York and Massachusetts meeting small artisan farmers, going to the High Lawn Farms Dairy, working at the first legal distillery in the Berkshires since Prohibition and learning about extracts from a company in business for 125 years. They’ll even forage for mushrooms. And we’ll be with them, sharing their adventures with you along the way.
In January 2016, we’ll head out to California for the next part of their adventure.
Like us on Facebook and Pinterest so you can follow Mike and Jillian on their great journey.