VIRGINIA CHRISTMAS TREE GROWERS ASSOCIATION
Volume 3, Issue 1
Winter 2013
Inside this Issue: VA Tree to Senator Warner − 3 Governor’s Mansion Tree − 3 Presidentially Speaking − 4 White House Tree − 6 National Marketing − 6 VCTGA Marking − 7, 23 2012 Season Sales Reports − 7 Growing Organically − 10 2013 National Meeting in Virginia − 13 VCTGA Grant Report − 14 National Tree Promotion Update − 19 Member Profile − Mountain View Farm − 20 Virginia Trees For Troops − 18, 23 Members in the Media – 23
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94.9 Star Country radio station got a 25-30´ Norway spruce from Rodney Richardson, Mt. Rogers Christmas Tree Farm, and placed it in front of their station on Rt. 419 in Roanoke. They asked listeners to send them Christmas messages for the troops which were laminated and put on the tree. Their goal was to have the tree go from green to complete white.
Presentation of the official Governor’s Mansion Christmas tree by Rodney Richardson and family to First Lady Maureen McDonnell. See page 3 for details.
Alpha Nursery − 5 Bosch’s Countryview Nursery − 8 Cherokee Mfg −11 Tim Mitchell’s Yule Stand System − 13 Strathmeyer Forests − 15 Tree Teck − 17 Carroll Resource Mgt − 17 Kelco − 18 Riverside Enterprise − 18 Kubota − 23 Wagoner’s Fraser Knoll − 24 Winter view of Mountain View Farm, Edinburg, see profile of Steve and Sharon Rhoades and their farm on page 20.