Missouri Landscape & Nursery Association
The professions of Missouri’s green industry, as of January 1, 2017, will be represented by a single professional, non-profit organization to be known as MoGIA or the
Missouri Green Industry Alliance. Previous Organizations were:
MLNA (Missouri Landscape and Nursery Association, founded 1921), and the MoTOC (Missouri Turf and Ornamental Council)
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The mission of MoGIA is to provide a unified voice for Missouri’s green industry with a vision to offer a resource that advances the green industry and increases public awareness of the industry’s value to Missouri. The leadership Board will represent each professional sector of the industry, including landscape (construction, ecological restoration and management), land care (commercial, residential, municipal, arboriculture, irrigation), turf management (commercial, residential, golf, sports turf), landscape architecture and design, production (nursery, greenhouse, sod, support products), distribution (wholesale, sales and brokerage), retail garden centers and institutions of higher learning.
The work of MoGIA will include educating professionals and students through on-going professional development activities, promotion of the green industry’s value to the public, advocating for the green industry by providing our members an awareness of the legislative process and affording them the opportunity and communicating the results of our actions, supporting research and sharing pure and applied findings, collaborating between and among green industry professionals and with alliance organizations and institutions, and encouraging environmental stewardship by fostering responsible awareness of and engagement in practices that support stewardship.
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Subject: Announcing the formation of the Missouri Green Industry Alliance
The professions of Missouri’s green industry, as of January 1, 2017, will
be represented by a single professional, non-profit organization to be known as MoGIA or the
Missouri Green Industry Alliance.
Since July of 2015, the leadership of the MLNA (Missouri Landscape and Nursery Association,
founded 1921), and the MoTOC (Missouri Turf and Ornamental Council – prior to 2008, organized as
the MVTA, Mississippi Valley Turfgrass Association, founded 1965) have been meeting jointly to
discuss opportunities to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of representing Missouri’s green
industry with a unified voice. The outcome of these initial joint MLNA/MoTOC leadership meetings
realized the theme “COMMON GROUND – we are stronger together.” After three professionally
facilitated meetings held throughout 2015, the decision was made to approach the memberships of
both professional organizations to transition the efforts of the MLNA and MoTOC into a single statewide
organization. At the December 9, 2015 Annual Meeting of the MoTOC membership, the members
present voted unanimously, and at January 22, 2016 Annual Meeting of the MLNA membership, the
members present also voted unanimously to combine their organizations as MoGIA, Missouri Green
Industry Alliance. Soon after approval was received by both memberships, the MoGIA Steering
Committee, comprised of the combined Board leadership of MLNA and MoGIC, was formed and met
throughout 2016 to pursue the legal and detailed administrative framework of the new organization.
For more information, visit www.mogia.org