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Fall 2019 Happenings

The PVMA Fall Seminar was a success with many people in attendance and lots of great information presented by both our speakers and our board members. The latest issue of The Vegetation Manager was also released for all attendees to pick up. To get yours ...

October 2019 Issue of The Vegetation Manager magazine

The October 2019 issue of The Vegetation Manager magazine is now available. If you would like to take advantage of our low advertising rates, we offer a 30% discount to advertisers who place an ad in all 3 issues, please contact the PVMA office. ...

Fall 2018 Happenings at the PVMA

We have had some exciting changes over the summer and the start of the fall here at PVMA.  To start there is a new issue of The Vegetation Manager online! It has some great information on how to use technology to improve systems in our industry, ...

Take Advantage of Your Membership Benefits

Take advantage of your PVMA Membership Benefits? Article 1 Over the last couple of years, I have had the opportunity to work alongside some great staff and volunteers of the association.  Your Board of Directors meet monthly to discuss the affairs ...

Why We Need the PVMA. Why the PVMA Needs Us.

(PVMA) The Professional Vegetation Managers Association is a dedicated group of hundreds of men and women who have knowledge regarding (and care deeply about) the plants that inhabit their local and regional environments.  Their goals are many-fold ...

How Long Is Your Town's Frost Free Period?

The old joke goes, whenever any nervous service provider asks you for a tip, is to give them a life tip, rather than a monetary one, such as, “Plant your corn early”. Unfortunately for Albertans, “early” can be a difficult point ...

5 Ways Trees Can Kill You

There are numerous threats to human safety from the Animal Kingdom which people are aware of in our region. These dangers range from mosquitos with a bad case of West Nile Virus (watch out for sneezing skeeters!), to maniacal deer that leap out of ditches ...

Do You Own A Home or Business?

For some, the idea of a “Vegetation Manager” is either the lady at the greenhouse pushing petunias or the young clerk stocking the display bins in the produce department at the grocery store.  In reality, however, a vegetation manager ...