Nursery Notes Nov-Dec 2011 - The Paginator
Nursery Notes Nov-Dec 2011 - The Paginator
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Executive Director’s Message – continued from page 9<br />
college students majoring in horticulture. <strong>The</strong> <strong>2011</strong> Summer<br />
Green Road Show also included our first Young Professional<br />
Leadership Program. You will be receiving your annual membership<br />
dues renewal soon. With your support, the NCNLA will<br />
continue the many programs that help your business in these<br />
difficult times and work towards developing a brighter future for<br />
our industry.<br />
N. C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission and<br />
NCDA&CS Award Marketing Grants to NCNLA<br />
We received some exciting news from the NC Tobacco Trust<br />
Fund Commission (TTFC), and the NCDA&CS Specialty Crop<br />
Block Grant program, that they have awarded grants to the<br />
NCNLA to promote the nursery and landscape industry. NCNLA<br />
will receive $250,000 from the TTFC to continue the marketing<br />
project funded by the TTFC this past year. In addition, the<br />
NCDA&CS awarded NCNLA a grant for $100,000, also for marketing<br />
our industry. We will use these funds over the next two years<br />
to advertise NC nurseries to wholesale buyers, promote the Green<br />
& Growin’ Show and Summer Green Road Show, as well as promote<br />
our nursery and landscape industry to consumers. This will<br />
allow us to build on our past years’ success and make a bigger<br />
impact on our customers.<br />
Our goal is to increase demand for plants and landscape services.<br />
It’s important that we continue to remind wholesale buyers<br />
of the many reasons for sourcing their plants from NC nurseries<br />
and make it easy for them to locate our nurseries through<br />
BuyNCPlants.com and the Buyers Guide. And equally important,<br />
educate the consumer that plants are a necessity for all the environmental,<br />
economic, and quality of life reasons.<br />
Thank you <strong>2011</strong> Board of Directors<br />
Finally, the next time you see one of our NCNLA directors, please<br />
thank them for all they have done for the green industry over the<br />
past year. Your board of directors has been very busy and<br />
accomplished a lot on behalf of the NCNLA membership. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
have given their time very unselfishly for the good of everyone in<br />
the nursery and landscape business.<br />
I look forward to seeing everyone at the Green &<br />
Growin’ Show, January 16 – 20 in Greensboro, NC.<br />
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