In the last seven months the veteran Washington County Commissioner has lost his plant nursery outside Gaston and his home overlooking the Tualatin Valley between Hillsboro and Scholls – both casualties, he says, of Oregon’s long economic downturn and global financial changes. ‘I took it from a small farm to a very large business, and a nationally known business,’ Terry said of the former Oregon Garden Products, which he took over in 1988.