Behind the Scenes with Nursery Management magazine

GIE teams play Pyramid for charity

Staffers from Nursery Management and Greenhouse Management had the privilege to play Pyramid for Charity, hosted by BASF at this year’s OFA Short Course. Kelli Rodda and Jim Gilbride won $1,500 for the Bryan A. Champion Memorial Scholarship, and Kristy O’Hara and Laura Allen won $1,200 for The City Mission in Cleveland, Ohio. BASF generously donated the first $1,000. Bryan Champion was president of Herman Losely & Son Nursery in Perry, Ohio. He lost his battle with cancer last year at the age of 47. The City Mission has been helping the homeless and others in the Cleveland community for more than 100 years. Editors from other trade magazines also played. In all, the media teams brought in $8,650 for charity. Great job, everyone!
 

HRI celebrates golden anniversary

ANLA and the Horticulture Research Institute co-hosted a reception during the OFA Short Course to celebrate HRI’s 50th anniversary. During the reception, ANLA executive vice president, Bob Dolibois, presented current ANLA president Bob Lyons with the 2012 ANLA Hall of Fame award. Lyons, owner of Sunleaf Nursery in Madison, Ohio, is the first two-year president of ANLA since World War II.

After the award was presented, the reception’s attendees donated more than $250,000 for HRI research and scholarships. HRI’s recent research is focused on boxwood blight and includes the development of a website, www.boxwoodblight.org, which provides growers with information about the disease. Founded in 1962 as the research arm of ANLA, HRI has directed more than $5.8 million of industry funds to research projects covering the full range of production, environmental and business issues important to the green industry. HRI, which is an IRS-recognized 501(c) (3) tax-exempt research and educational foundation, distributed $282,500 in grants and scholarships for 2012.
 

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Short Course tweets
Twitter was on fire during the OFA Short Course. Are you following us on Twitter? (@NurseryMag)

Here are some interesting and helpful tweets from the show:

@joegardener most millennials use their phone for accessing info - not talking #ShortCourse

@joelutey Some of the best ideas at #shortcourse were shared over a beer. Vacation Garden School for kids next summer?

@GMmagEditor Suggestion from audience- put QR code on your shipping trucks so people sitting at lights can scan, learn about your products #ShortCourse