Ed Bravo is the general manager and parter of Big Trees Nursery in Newberry which designed, developed and maintains the landscaping for the Town of Tioga. His nursery and landscape career began when he started working as a landscape laborer. Within just two years, he became the production manager at a Gainesville area nursery and then for ten years he was the sole proprietor of Moonlight Landscape. In 1996, Ed became the General Manager of Big Trees Nursery and in 2001, he became a partner of Big Trees Plantation. Ed has been a longtime board member of the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens Spring Garden Festival. Ed has served FNGLA Frontrunners Chapter in many roles. He represented the Frontrunners Chapter on the statewide FNGLA Board from 2009 to 2013, served as FNGLA President in 2017-2018 . Ed is a member of the FNGLA Endowed Research Fund Steering Committee.

Ed earned an A.A. degree from Santa Fe Community College.