Michael ChiltonAfter receiving a graduate degree in botanical sciences from Iowa State University, Mike spent the next fifteen years in Southeast Asia. He worked initially as an agricultural volunteer and team leader in Vietnam and then as a remote area security deelopment specialist with the Thai Border Patrol. He returned to Vietnam to work in private and public sector development activities before returning to the USA in 1975 to an uncertain future and the development of a new career.He served with a small agricultural company in Salem, Oregon, for eight years catching up on the world of agriculture before establishing his own company, Agricultural Alternatives, Ltd. in 1985. Specialty plant and seed production expanded into a broad range of plant products, all marketed internationally, before he sold the company in 2001.Mike has visited and traveled in over eighty countries and has lived, worked or conducted business in nineteen countries. He lives today near Salem, Oregon, on an acreage he developed with his late wife, Simone, and continues to serve useful purposes following a number of ancillary interests. Read More Read Less