TNLA Working For You December 5, 2020

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The Green Report Podcast: Season 2

The Green Report Season 2 Starts with an interview featuring Dr. Marco Palma and Dr. Charlie Hall covering the economic contribution of the Nursery/Landscape Industry.

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Table of Contents 3...Table of Contents

10...Legislative & Regulatory Update

Upcoming Deadline

Meetings & Events Calendar

Feature: Green Report Podcast

TNLA Education Alert

4....Embrace Your Space Capture Your Carbon 5....Membership Value Added Offerings

11...New Certified Professionals Nov. 2020 New Members Nov. 2020 TNLA Remembers

Compensation Study Featured TNLA Endorsed Service Provider Featured Member Benefit Partners 6....TNLA 365 Mobile App 7....TNLA Education On-Demand 8....Tailgate Topics: Slip & Fall Prevention

TNLA WORKING FOR YOU FEATURE: TNLA Green Report Podcast Presents Season 2 and Now Video Option!

Deadlines

TNLA Foundation Scholarship Supporting the future of the Green Industry. Submit your application by December 31, 2020.

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Season 2 Episode 1 The TNLA Green Report Podcast: Dr. Marco Palma and Dr. Charlie Hall What is the economic contribution of the Texas nursery and landscape industry? Listen in as Dr. Marco Palma and Dr. Charlie Hall dive into the details of the most recent report from Texas A&M University on the impact of our industry on the State of Texas. With the 2020 report detailing over $22 billion dollars in total sales, there is a lot of value to discuss for business owners and policymakers.

This is an exciting new season of the TNLA Green Report Podcast that will be bringing you all of the news you need to know. This season will be kicking off the new option of watching the podcast through video on YouTube. Be sure to keep an eye out for the podcast posted on tnlaonline.org and on the TNLA 365 Mobile App

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Share the Spirit of Gardening with Embrace Your Space & Capture Your Carbon!

During this Holiday season, we want your customers to embrace their space together. This season is full of spirit and joy, so we want to help you show them how they can find that through plants!

The Embrace Your Space campaign is revamped and we are encouraging consumers to CAPTURE YOUR CARBON, Plant a Tree this winter. TNLA wants to provide you with the resources and inspiration to keep business booming with these campaigns.

Make sure to check into the #EmbraceYourSpace media kit with new graphics for your business to share on social media and flyers to print, to keep those customers excited for planting!

TNLA wants to help spread the word of Embrace Your Space & Capture Your Carbon with everyone and we want to help YOUR BUSINESS EARN MORE IMPRESSIONS across social media platforms. Participate by using the hashtag #EmbraceYourSpace and #CaptureYourCarbon so we can share your posts!

“To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow�

-Audrey Hepburn

Get Started Today!

Contact Ashley@tnlaonline.org or fill out the form at tnlaonline.org and your business location(s) will be added to the map.

Go to Landscape.tnlonline.org to see your business on the map and listed for consumers to find you! Share it on your social media and let your customers know you are participating.

Spread the word to your community by utilizing the MEDIA KIT and using the hastags #EmbraceYourSpace & #CaptureYourCarbon. Tag TNLA in your post so we can share!

Learn more about the Capture Your Carbon and Embrace Your Space campaign and get on the map today by contacting ashley@tnlaonline.org

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Membership Value Added Offerings

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Compensation Study

Purchase the latest Compensation Study to gain valuable data and help your company do business better, CLICK HERE

TNLA Endorsed Service Provider: Merchant Owl

Merchant Owl helps you reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of processing credit card payments. Uncovering all of your potential savings and designing your own, custom merchant account that best fits your business needs.

Featured Member Benefit Partners At Office Depot & OfficeMax TNLA members save up to 75% off on office, home and school supplies! Enjoy exclusive pricing and discounts on office essentials, toner, paper, cleaning products, break room items, furniture and more. Save online and in-stores. To start saving visit: TNLA.SavingCenter.net TNLA members save on shipments of all sizes through the TNLA Shipping Program, managed by PartnerShip. You’ll benefit from exclusive discounts of up to 40% with FedEx, and competitive rates with UPS Freight, YRC Freight, XPO, and many other carriers. Whether you’re shipping a small package or a full truckload, the TNLA Shipping Program will help you ship smarter. Enroll today.

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TNLA Education On-Demand Guided Web Courses: Creating a Garden Sanctuary

Green Industry Essentials: Downloadable WhitePages From dangerous spiders to company culture, TNLA’s Green Industry Essentials are the FREE Downloadable PDFs to help add an education flare to your daily meetings. Just click and print! It’s that easy to get education for your employees.

Tangible and FREE! TNLA’s Green Industry WhitePages are easy to print and share to train your employees.

Join author and professional landscape artist and contractor John Beaudry as he introduces the audience to the fundamentals of landscape design including the elements and principles of landscape design.

These videos are self-paced and set into 4 easy-to-follow modules. Topics include: Art and crafts style, elements of design, finding space, plant choices, and more!

Free Webinars: Earn 1 TNLA CEU per Webinar

Self Paced Online Courses: Offering Basic Green Industry Training Use these courses as training for employees, a refresher for your professionals, or get started!

• Further develop your professional knowledge in your timeframe • Aid your studies for the Exam with these supplemental courses • Useful for those new to the Industry to quickly gain industry knowledge while on the go

Grow your professional knowledge and Earn 1 TNLA CEU by watching one of the many available TNLA webnars.

With topics including Business Management, Enviornment, COVID-19 Response, Pest & Disease Management, Economy, Legislative & Regulatory, Plants, & more!

Don’t miss this chance to gain FREE knowlege from the experts!

TNLA Green Magazine Archives: Take a CEU Quiz to Earn 1 TNLA

Nursery/Landscape EXPO Videos: Watch Interviews and Keynote Speakers The Nursery/Landscape EXPO is packed full of education including excellent keynote speakers including Jack Jostes, Thom Singer and more. Hear about productivity, trends, marketing, company culture, and more!

Enjoy interviews with other professionals in the Green Industry and hear about tips, tricks, and trends from them.

TNLA Green Magizine has been packed full of useful knowlege for Green Industry Professionals. TNLA Academics holds all of the TNLA CEU quizzes that you can take now and be eligible to earn 1 TNLA CEU. Read up on articles coming from AgriLife, SFA Gardens and more!

Don’t forget to take the CEU Quiz in this edition of TNLA Working for You

Ad Index 2....OHP Inc. 5....TNLA AD Opportunity

11....TNLA Career Center Offer 13....Hotchkiss Insurance, LLC

14....Office Depot/Office Max

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TNLA Tailgate Topic: Slip & Fall Protection Objective: Participants will be able to correctly identify slip and fall hazards and determine what modifications should be made to the hazard.

APPLICATION: Participants should identify slip and fall hazards at sites, on equipment, and at their company’s buildings. For each hazard they identify have them determine what precaution/ modification should be made to make the area safe.

Slip and fall accidents are the second leading cause of accidental deaths in the United States, exceeded only by motor vehicle accidents. Simply treating walking/ working surfaces to make them non-slip can minimize exposure to slips and falls. The following recommendations are for non-slip modification to specific surfaces .

CREATING NON-SLIP SURFACES: Non-slip work surfaces should be applied to all steps, floorboards, etc. on trucks, trailers, and forklifts. This can be painted on or adhesive backed coverings can be employed.

CONCRETE FLOORS: Concrete floors should be cleaned and a non-slip surface applied if necessary.

A paint treatment is recommended since it is the most easily cleaned.

LADDERS RUNGS AND STAIR TREADS: All ladder rungs and stair treads should be painted with non-slip paint or covered with adhesive backed grit sheets.

ADDITIONAL STAIR TREADS: Additional stair treads should be installed at the top of any stair way to prevent a person’s foot from slipping through the wide opening. All treads on a stairway must be equally spaced. prepared.

LADDER TOE SPACE: Modify ladders to allow plenty of toes space (7 inches). Restricted toe space may cause a foot to slip off the ladder step.

FOOT WIPES & MUD SCRAPPERS: Heavy-duty foot wipes should be installed just inside doorways. In addition, mud scrapers should be installed just outside of doorways.

The floor surfaces inside a building should be coated with a non-slip treatment for the first 10 feet inside.

FLOOR HOLES (PITS & AUGUR TROUGHS): Floor holes, such as pits and augur troughs, should be treated in two ways. First, the edges of all pits should be color contrasted by painting yellow strips 4 inches wide around the opening. Second, pits that are left unattended should have barricades that can be places in front of the pit to warn persons. Place the barricade back far enough that if the person

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Legislative & Regulatory Update

Meeting & Events Calendar

H-2B Coalition Making Emergency Push for 2021 Cap Relief

December 1-18, 2020

H-2B advocates across the country have been conducting outreach to allies in Congress to push for cap relief language in the funding bill being negotiated this week. For the past three years, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has had the discretion to increase the number of H-2B visas when the cap was hit.

Each prior year the agency had decided to expand the number of H-2B visas.

However, this authority must be extended to the agency each time Congress passes the funding bill for DHS. Congressional leaders are negotiating the federal funding bills now and the landscape industry needs the cap relief language included. TNLA has activated a campaign on the TNLA Legislative Action Center to send a message to Congress asking for cap relief to be included. Please visit the Legislative Action Center to send a message for cap relief now!

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Texas A&M Greenhouse and Nursery Webinar Series Register Here!

December 24, 2020January 4, 2021

TNLA State Office Closed Inquiries? Contact info@tnlaonline.org August 5-7, 2021

2021 Nursery/ TNLA staff continues to prepare for the legislative session beginning in Landscape EXPO January. Our staff is working with several legislative offices to have proposals San Antonio, TX drafted as well as organizing advocacy coalitions on plant health, tort More Info Here! reform, and workforce training. In addition, our staff has begun meeting with legislators to share priorities for the coming session.

On Demand TNLA CEO & President Amy Graham recently served as a panelist in the FWD. us webinar to discuss the importance of the H-2B and H-2A programs to our Creating a Garden economy and why Congress should improve them.

Sanctuary The TNLA Leader List, a e-newsletter detailing the policy changes during the Guided Web Course session, sent out another alert last week. If you are interested in getting the weekly updates during the legislative session, go to the TNLA website and More Info Here! subscribe.

TNLA joined the effort to in support of Congress acting to correct the tax treatment of PPP loan forgiveness. Recent IRS notices have reversed congressional intent and effectively made these forgiven amounts fully taxable. The result will be a surprise $100-200 billion tax hike on struggling small businesses in the middle of a pandemic. Business groups across the country have urged Congress to fix this prior to it impacting businesses.

We urge our members to nominate the Texas landscape and nursery certifications to the Texas Education Agency for inclusion on the approved list of Industry Based Certifications for the 2022 school year. TNLA has been pushing for more green industry education for high school students to drive potential workers to our industry. Find out more here The Federal Transportation Agency clarified in regulation that “horticulture is agriculture”. This has been a national effort as growers and groups including TNLA have pushed the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to include horticulture products under the hours-of-service agriculture exemption. For clarity on the exemption find out more here

TNLA Education Alert CALLING TNLA MEMBERS! Tell the Texas Education Agency (TEA) that Texas’ Nursery and Landscape Industry The TEA is accepting submissions for recommended industry-based certifications to be included on their 2022 Industry Based Certifications List.

This takes less than a minute but could be the future of your business’ success! Click to submit and follow the instructions below.

INSTRUCTIONS: Information You Need 1. Certification Name: (To name each certification listed below, submit your recommendation twice.)

Texas Certified Landscape Associate OR Texas Certified Nursery Professional 2. Certification Website: www.tnlaonline.org 3. Certifying Entity: Texas Nursery & Landscape Association 4. Certifying Entity Contact Information: James Theiss | education@tnlaonline.org | 512-579-3860

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New Certified Professionals November 2020 TEXAS CERTIFIED LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATE & TEXAS MASTER CERTIFIED NURSERY PROFESSIONAL Ronnie Abbe, TCLA TMCNP Calloway’s Nursery

TEXAS CERTIFIED NURSERY PROFESSIONAL Giuseppe Baldi, TCNP Lawns of Dallas

TNLA Remembers Ben Baisdon worked for TNLA overseeing the landscape at the State Office for many years. He was involved with TNLA Region VIII and served on many TNLA Committees. Ben also received the TNLA Staff Award.

Obituary Here Jim Barnes worked for Heritage Farms.

Heritage Farms exhibited in the Nursery/Landscape EXPO for 26 years and has been a TNLA Member since 1993 Obituary Here

New Members November 2020 REGION I Irrigation Branch TLC Total Lawn Care Selma, TX 78154 888-253-1324 tlclawncare.com REGION II Landscape Business Texas Landscape Artists, LP James Leggett Katy, TX 77450 (713) 999-5444

REGION IV Landscape Business From the Ground Up Ryan Burkhart Dallas, TX 75354 214-515-0875 fromthegrounduplandscape.com

Retail Business Sparrow Gardens Tammy Collins Flatonia, TX 78941 (361) 865-4097 sparrowgardens.com

Retail Individual Kristen Anderson TCNP Green Counts LLC Dallas, TX 75231 469-403-9510

Landscape Business Strider Outdoor Design, LLC Jenica Tateosian Cedar Park, TX 78613 (512) 910-5101 strideroutdoordesign.com

Student Sergio Sotelo-Sosa New Mexico State University Dallas, TX 75206 (575) 639-1527

Supplier Business Bumper Crop Texas, LLC. Matt Arthur Schulenburg, TX 78956 (979) 743-4157 bumpercroptexas.com

Supplier Branch Synthetic Turf Depot Tim Dvorak Dallas, TX 75220 972-763-5555 www.stdepot.com

Out of State Supplier Hawaiian Moon Bridget Sherriff Clearwater, FL 33756 727-709-1484 aloecream.biz

REGION III Grower Business Mea Nursery Patrick Mea Lindale, TX 75771 903-882-7541 mea-nursery.com

Landscape Individual Adam Cosgrove Irving, TX 75062 (214) 202-5633

REGION V Student Kimberly ORourke Denton, TX 76210 (864) 332-9545 REGION VIII Student Neal Smith Austin, TX 78745 (361) 944-8010

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