Experts Creating Experts in Cocoa

We all have hobbies that we develop throughout our lives. For some it may be a love of landscaping, for others it could be a sport, or if you’re anything like us, it’s heating and cooling. Just like we enjoy working to keep you cozy throughout the year, we also love helping others pursue 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 encourage. The Grand Prize winners, Mike and Jillian, entered to become expert foragers, collecting wild plants and foods from nature. After being one of five finalists selected from a group of judges, the public voted through Facebook and now, Mike and Jillian are headed out 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 gather wild plants and foods from nature.

This fall, they’ll leave for the first leg 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 second part of their adventure.

Like us on Facebook and Pinterest so you can follow Mike and Jillian on their great journey.