Membership Meeting and Hospitality Reception at Western

Join MLNA Members at the 2009 Western Annual Meeting and Trade Show
January 4 - 6, 2009, Overland Park, KS.
MLNA will have our 2009 Business Meeting, followed by a Missouri Landscape and Nursery
Association sponsored Hospitality Reception for MLNA, Horticulture Co-op of Metro St. Louis and Hort NetWORK members & guests. The Hort Coop of Metro St. Louis and The HortNetWork of the Kansas City Metropolitan Region are our local allied organizations. MLNA encourages membership in local, state and regional associations. All Green Industry Professionals Welcomed!
Also the Missouri Landscape & Nursery Association’s Green Industry Star Certification Program Modules 1 & 3 Testing will be Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 3-5 p.m. Overland Park Convention Center (Courtyard Level) Meeting Room 2 . In order to participate in Missouri Landscape & Nursery Association’s new Green Industry Star Certification’s testing, you will need to register for BOTH the 2009 WESTERN Annual Meeting and Trade Show AND with the Missouri Landscape & Nursery Association.
For more information about our new state and nationally recognized professional Five Star certification, the various specialized module options and the Green Industry Business Star qualification if you are already PLANET CLP certified click here.

Compost Helps Manage Water Runoff

Compost Helps Manage Water Runoff
The Iowa Department of Transportation provided funds for Dr. Thomas Glanville, professor at Iowa State University, to conduct a study to determine how compost blankets would control erosion and sediment runoff at highway embankment sites.
The study compared subsoil compaction, a 6” topsoil cover and a 2-4” compost blanket.
What they found in the study was that the highway embankments blanketed with compost stopped erosion to a significantly greater degree than the Iowa DOT’ conventional methods of compacting the subsoil or adding topsoil. For more information, click here.