The Membership Directory and Buyers Guide: Ads can be placed in our Annual Membership Directory and Buyers’ Guide in sizes ranging from full-page color to quarter page. A copy of the Directory is mailed to current members of the Association upon completion of the publication in January. Courtesy copies are sent to nearly 1000 cut flower and potted plant buyers across the country. It is also distributed to over 200 landscape contractors in San Diego County.
Website:
As a member you are added to our well established web site www.flowerandplant.org. where you can be linked with buyers around the world while promoting commerce and agriculture in Southern California. In order to maintain our website an annual minimal fee of $25.00 is required to have your website linked up with our website.
Scholarships:
We annually award deserving students scholarships to help secure the future growth of agriculture in San Diego/Southern California. We are hoping to encourage internships from our membership for these students.
Educational programs:
We have educational programs that we continually are looking for suggestions to fill our members needs. Established programs are a Pesticide training class in Spanish with English sub titles and a First Aide Safety and CPR training.
Governmental Liaison: We represent you and your concerns with the sources of the Cooperative Extension of the University of California, the San Diego County Farm Bureau, the California Department of Food & Agriculture.
Marketing & Promotion: We are continually looking for ways to promote the industry and help you market and promote your business. With a variety of electronic and paper media we are keeping the industry and you front and center. Currently we have a Facebook page, Website, Directory, Newsletter, Feature of the Month, and more.
Trade Discounts: This is another area where the association is looking out for you. We are continually negotiating competitive rates and discounts for you. We currently have a discount with UPS and a prescription drug discount card.
Newsletter:
We publish a monthly newsletter to all members and sister associations/city offices and libraries in the area. We do offer adverting free of charge to members. Non members pay $25.00. If you would like to insert an add cost is $150.00 per month buy 2 months and get the third for free provide the information to the association office by the 25th of the month for the next month going out.
We work closely with the San Diego County Farm Bureau to stay on top of important issues that concern our membership’s best interest.
Social Events:
We are a very social association. We have 5 scheduled events annually.
June
– Annual meeting (induction of new board, award scholarship, award outstanding person of the year.)
October
– Living Plant Growers Assoc. meeting
January
– Holiday Party
April
– Spring Meeting
May
– Golf Tournament
