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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 ...

October 2017 Issue of The Vegetation Manager magazine

The October 2017 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 four issues, please contact the PVMA office. ...

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 ...