Senate Panel: Green Jobs Are High Priority HARRISBURG - On May 10, The Senate Education Committee, Chaired by Sen. Jeffrey Piccola (R-Dauphin, York), voted to make green industry jobs "high priority" occupations in Pennsylvania. The action updates the Pennsylvania School Code’s definition of vocational agricultural education to include landscape contracting, nursery production, floriculture, and retail garden center management in an amendment... (more)
PSU Extension Funding Partially Restored
HARRISBURG - Penn State's agricultural extension and Research state appropriations have been partially restored in the House version of the state budget released by Rep. Bill Adolph (R-Delaware) on May 10, 2011. However, the House budget proposal still leaves ag extension and research with a twenty-five percent cut, reduced from the fifty-two percent cut proposed by Governor Corbett... (more)
Legislature Declares Outdoor Living Week HARRISBURG - At PLNA's urging, the Pennsylvania General Assembly has passed a resolution declaring the week of May 14 through May 22 Outdoor Living Week in Pennsylvania. This will become an annual week in May that focuses public attention on the economic, health and environmental benefits of landscaped outdoor spaces... (more)
Tarriff Reduction for Christmas Trees WASHINGTON - Chistmas tree growers in the U.S. will get a present from NAFTA later this year as tariffs are lifted on Christmas tree exports at the end of 2011. This week, the American Nursery and Landscape Assocation (ANLA) put out a call to affiliated associations to join in official comments on the agreement with Mexico to finally fulfill to promises of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)... (more)
Active Members Abolins Landscaping, Mechanicsburg Blue Mountain Nursery, LLC, New Tripoli BP Landscaping, North Wales Carroll Nurseries, Cochranton Chester County Bamboo, Malvern Green Earth Enterprises, Lafayette Hill HCS Landscaping, Inc., Harrisburg Klines Tree Farm, Carrolltown RPI Services, LLC, Malvern Scarlet Oaks Wholesale Nursery, Telford Urxscape Custom Landscapes, Halifax Windy Hill Tree Farm, Lake Ariel Woodlawn Landscaping & Nursery, Chadds Ford
Associate Members Alliance Designer Products, Inc., Laval, PQ Authorized Landscape Supply.com, Pleasant Unity Helena Chemical Company, Swedesboro, NJ Landscape Management Network, Whitby, ON Lucas Greenhouses, Monroeville, NJ Smart Soil, LP, Chambersburg SynaTek, Plymouth Meeting
Student Members Mr. Zachary Mueller
Ms. Oralia L. Ferretti, Bidwell Training Center Mr. Matthew Lawrence Barto, Delaware Valley College Mr. James R. Wyble, Penn State University, Dept. of Horticulture Mr. Austin C. Deputy, Temple University - Ambler Dept. of Landscape Architecture & Horticulture Ms. Megan Schmid, The Pennsylvania College of Technology, School of Natural Resources Mr. Logan Richard, The Pennsylvania College of Technology, School of Natural Resources Mr. Kyle Brown, The Pennsylvania College of Technology, School of Natural Resources Mr. Stephen M. Newman, The Williamson School Mr. James William Bradley, The Williamson School Welcome New PCH's Mr. Jay Bell, PCH, Silvis Group, Inc., Mt. Pleasant, PA Mr. Jeffrey V. Zilli, PCH, Silvis Group, Inc., Mt. Pleasant, PA Ms. Diane E. Brown, PCH, King of Prussia, PA Ms. Connie L. Friedrich, PCH, Hersheys Mill Landscape Company, West Chester, PA Mr. Scott Fohringer, PCH, Creative Plantscapes, Inc., Lewisburg, PA
The Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association (PLNA) is the leading trade association representing Pennsylvania's $6.8 billion green industry. Its 750 member landscape contractors, retail garden centers, wholesale nurseries and greenhouses produce outdoor living environments that improve economic value, air quality, water quality and human health. Learn more at www.PLNA.com/green.
