Ready To Grow Your Business?
Tainted Vegetables
Financial Hardship
Soaring Food Prices
Regional Drought
Global Warming
These are just a few of the many reasons why the home vegetable garden is making a comeback in a big way. If you own a small nursery or garden shop, the PGTA can help you grow your business, all year long, while significantly minimizing seasonal sales fluctuations.
Sales of vegetable seeds and plants are up by 40 percent over last year, an unheard of one year growth rate for any segment of the $40 billion annual lawn and garden market. Why? Because the rise in energy prices is not only affecting fuel prices, but virtually every consumer product including food. Obviously, one of the easiest ways to provide a hedge against rising food prices is to grow your own.
Of course, other factors are driving this growth, including contaminated vegetables, concern for the environment, and supplementing the family income.
The Progressive Gardening Trade Association has been on the forefront of these issues for over a decade, providing information on progressive home gardening techniques that include organics, hydroponics, drip irrigation, container and other eco-friendly, water-wise plant growth and food production solutions.
Why the PGTA?
One of the most prevalent impediments to the successful application of progressive gardening technologies is the lack of accurate and reliable information available to the consumer.
Low paid employees at big box stores and discount centers generally don't have the expertise nor experience necessary to successfully guide the customer.
The PGTA provides the help you need to successfully help your customers grow healthy food, aromatic herbs, and fantastic flowers, right in their homes or yards, with methods that are safe, responsible and eco-friendly.
For more information on how the PGTA can benefit your business and community, see our membership information page.
Education
The Progressive Gardening Trade Association works with many organizations to further the use of progressive gardening techniques in classrooms of all grade levels. For the past several years, we have worked in conjunction with the National Gardening Association, The Grow Store in Colorado and numerous product manufacturers to provide indoor hydroponic gardening grant packages to elementary, middle and high schools.
These packages provide eligible schools with the equipment and expertise that encourage students to explore how plants grow in hydroponics, without soil, which provides real world experience for subjects including biology, mathematics, science, and many others. We hope that you will encourage your customers to make their childrens schools aware of this exciting program and offer them the opportunity to participate.
If you are interested in applying for a grant for your school or classroom, please visit the KidsGardening.org or click on the banner below.
2009 Annual Meeting & Eco-Product Showcase
Thanks to all for another excellent meeting this year!
The Progressive Gardening Trade Association (PGTA) held it's 2009 Annual Meeting and Eco-Product Showcase April 25th and 26th with pre- and post-conference activities on April 24th and April 27th respectively at the Tuscany Suites & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The PGTA Annual Meeting and Eco-Product Showcase was the perfect opportunity for manufacturers and distributors of earth-friendly, water-wise and organic gardening products and services to network with other like minded entrepeneurs in this fast growing industry niche.
Our sincere appreciation goes out to all of our 2009 sponsors including Grodan, Hydrodynamics International, A.J. Hamilton & Sons/Gualala Robotics, and General Hydroponics!
2009 Annual Awards Program
The PGTA is pleased to announce the winners of our 2009 Media Awards Program. The purpose of the program is to recognize member efforts to create superior advertising, writing, websites and other projects and materials aimed at promoting the image and encouraging the use of earth-friendly, water-wise and organic gardening principles.
Click here for this years winners and the winning entries!
2010 Annual Meeting Dates
The 2010 PGTA Annual Meeting and Eco-Product Showcase will be held on April 10th and 11th, 2010, with pre- and post-convention activities on the 9th and 12th respectively, at the Hyatt Regency in beautiful San Antonio, Texas!
Mark your calendars now for this exciting event in this historic location.