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SUMMARY:2022 CNLA Summer Field Day
DESCRIPTION:CNLA is bringing back our Summer Field Day and we are so excited to see you in person again! Join us on July 27 for quality educational programs\, the long-awaited opportunity to network\, property tours and more!\n\nAttendee Registration Information\nContact the CNLA Office to register as an attendee. \nClick here to download the attendee registration form. \n\nExhibitor Information\nContact the CNLA Office to register as an exhibitor.  (After you login\, choose your company.  Attendee is the main contact\, after you enter the “Attendee” which is the main contact\, click “Add” to register guest to enter additional staff and select Exhibit Staff – 1 Day Only for the “Guest Category”.) \nClick here to download the exhibitor registration form. \nThe annual CNLA Summer Field Day draws industry professionals from all over Connecticut and surrounding states. This event will provide your company an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your products\, explain your services and interact with green industry professionals. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to network with professionals in your area!  The deadline to register a booth is July 4\, 2022. Booths are assigned on a first come\, first served basis. Please note that your application will not be considered complete until we have received your payment. All fees are non-refundable. The exhibitor fee includes a table\, chair\, and 1 registration. \nCurrent Exhibitors (as of July 25\, 2022)\nAutomated Systems\nBailey Nurseries\nColorblends Wholesale Flowerbulbs\nCT Farm Bureau\nCT Mulch Distributors\nCT Nurserymen’s Foundation\nEast Coast Nurseries\nFarm Credit East\nFourth Generation Nurseries\ngardenUP\nGreen Earth Ag & Turf\nGreenleaf Nursery\nGriffin Greenhouse Supplies\nHarrell’s\nHO Penn\nIdeal Concrete Block Co.\nIntegrity Merchant Solutions\nJordan Energy & Food Enterprises\nKogut Nursery\nMonrovia\nNew Christie Ventures\nNortheast Greenhouse & Nursery Supply\nNorthern Nurseries\nNYP Corp.\nOESCO\nOldcastle Lawn & Garden\nPierson Nurseries\nPlanters’ Choice Nursery\nPrides Corner Farms\nShade Trees Nursery\nSiteOne Landscape Supply\nSummer Hill Nursery\nTexpak\nThe Lyman Agency\, Farm Family Insurance\nThe Plant Group\nThe Vermont Mulch Company\nUConn Extension – Risk Management\nUSDA\, APHIS\, PPQ \nCurrent SPONSORs (as of July 7\, 2022)\nLUNCH SPONSOR – SiteOne Landscape Supply\nLANYARD SPONSOR – CT Mulch Distributors \n\nSchedule\n8:30 am ~ Registration and Exhibitors \n8:30 am – 1:30 pm ~ Plant ID Contest—Forms must be submitted by 2:00 pm\n \n9:30 am – 2:00 pm ~ Prides Corner Full Farm Riding Tour (available all day)\nTake a ride over the rolling terrain of Lebanon\, CT for a full view of the 350 acre Prides Corner Farms Lebanon facility.  This 45 minute tour will travel through the (3) farms that make up Prides Corner including the Alba Farm\, home to containerized trees and a myriad of Hydrangea\, the Main Farm featuring macrophylla Hydrangea\, needled and broadleaf evergreens along with perennials\, and the Emmons Farm\, home to loads of deciduous shrubs and roses.  Prides Corner experts will fill you in on growing facts and will be available to answer all questions. \n9:30 am – 10:30 am ~ Disease Update and IPM Mitigation (1 CEU for PA\, 3A and 3D)\nNick Goltz\, UConn Plant Diagnostic Lab Director\nA brief report of prominent diseases affecting nursery and landscape plants observed in the past year at the UConn Plant Diagnostic Lab as well as emerging diseases to be on the lookout for in the upcoming year. Integrated Pest Management principles and techniques to mitigate impact and occurrence of diseases will be discussed throughout. \n9:45 am – 10:30 am ~ Prides Corner Propagation Facility Walking Tour\nThe Prides Corner team is excited to show off our newest facility to our CNLA colleagues!  Take a walk through our just opened\, high tech\, 2 acre\, gutter connect propagation facility.  Our propagation and grower support teams will reveal the magic of this brilliant glass greenhouse structure and its enclosed tissue culture lab\, the biggest of its kind in the northeast.  This tour will be a dazzling opportunity to see the most advanced techniques in plant propagation on display! \n10:45 am – 11:15 am ~ Prides Corner Loading Dock Walking Tour\nPrides Corner is really a logistics company shipping millions of plants to our customers each year.  See how it all happens on this whirlwind walking tour of the Prides Corner shipping facility.  This eye opening journey will give you the basics of our Lean Flow shipping system\, from how plants arrive from the field and our remote growing locations\, to how they are precisely staged\, shopped\, tagged and\, finally\, loaded onto trucks. Don’t miss this chance to see our state of the art shipping facility in action! \n10:30 am – 11:15 am ~ Pruning Workshop\nEvan Brand\, Woody Production Manager\, Prides Corner Farms\nThe program will share tips and knowledge about how Prides Corner prunes certain genera of plants to get the best quality for retail and landscape. He will also point out differences between pruning for production vs pruning at home or retail. \n11:30 am – 1:30 pm ~ Lunch is available \n1:30 pm – 2:00 pm ~ Press Conference on “An Economic Evaluation of Employment in the Connecticut Green Industry”\nDustyn Nelson\, Frank’s Landscape & Construction and CNLA President\nVictoria Wallace\, UCONN Extension and CNLA Past President \n1:30 pm – 2:15 pm ~ Prides Corner Propagation Facility Walking Tour\nThe Prides Corner team is excited to show off our newest facility to our CNLA colleagues!  Take a walk through our just opened\, high tech\, 2 acre\, gutter connect propagation facility.  Our propagation and grower support teams will reveal the magic of this brilliant glass greenhouse structure and its enclosed tissue culture lab\, the biggest of its kind in the northeast.  This tour will be a dazzling opportunity to see the most advanced techniques in plant propagation on display! \n2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ~ How to Navigate the Wetlands and Conservation Regulations\nAttorney Janet Brooks\, Environment and Land Use Law\nJohn Colonese\, Town of Ellington Assistant Town Planner Zoning & Wetlands Officer\nWilliam Kenny Associates\, Ecological Services • Landscape Architecture
URL:https://www.cnla.biz/event/2022-cnla-summer-meeting/
LOCATION:Prides Corner Farms\, 122 Waterman Road\, Lebanon\, CT\, 06249-1827
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