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Unifying The Virginia Green Industry!
Links of chain are useless unless joined. - Ken Bradford

 

5th Annual GoGreen Virginia Garden Festival
is September 11, 2010

VGIC Consumer Education Event at the Virginia Science Museum, Richmond


VGIC Meeting with Dr. Alan Grant,
new Dean of the VA Tech College of Agriculture & Life Sciences 
(l-r) Dr. Roger Harris, Interim Horticulture Dept Head,
Dr. Alan Grant, and Lorene Blackwood, 2010 VGIC President


Plastic Pot Recycling in Richmond
Click here for details

Heat Stress on Turf 2010
Tips from Virginia Tech


 Arbor Day was Friday, April 30, 2010  on Capitol Square, Richmond
 

(left photo: participants in Arbor Day) Right: Lin Diacont describes the benefits of trees, as VGIC President Lorene Blackwood and Secretary of Agriculture & Forestry, Todd Haymore look on. Secretary Haymore accepted the tree on behalf of the Governor.

           (2011 Arbor Day is April 29)        

Next Meeting will be on Wednesday,
November 10, 2010,        9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Location TBA
RSVP to info@virginiagreen.org


Virginia’s 2007 Green Industry Survey Results

Summary 2007 vs 2002 News release
Summary 2007 News release

THANKS to these Associations who have stepped up to help fund the 2010 Economic Impact Analysis!

  $1,100 Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (MAC-ISA)
  $1,300 Virginia Society of Landscape Designers (VSLD)
  $2,619 Virginia Flower Growers Association (VFGA)
$13,000 Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association (VNLA)
$2,000 Virginia Christmas Tree Growers Association (VCTGA)

There is still time for your association/company to contribute to this important analysis which will show the total economic impact of the Green Industry in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a whole and by the various sectors. This information and additional information is available on the VGIC website.

If you need additional information,
contact:  Lorene Blackwood, VGIC President at President@VirginiaGreen.org 804.288.3488  or
Jeff Miller at info@virginiagreen.org     540-382-0943

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