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Sustainability at Prides:  Striving to Keep the Green Industry Green!

Written by Lindsay Curran and Evan Brand 

At Prides, our goal is to produce large numbers of great quality, healthy plants. While doing so, we believe it is our responsibility to be conscious of the resources we use and how they impact the earth. Prides strives to lower our impact on the environment and we have many sustainability initiatives to achieve this. 

  • Prides is a member of MPS (More Profitable Sustainability), a worldwide program that provides monitoring, certification and accountability for environmental impact. We report our usage of fertilizers, pesticides, energy, land and water to compare with other growers and find ways to reduce our impact.
  • Our shipping facility has 753 solar panels on the roof. Since we installed it in 2016, it has produced 1,260,000 Kw! It covers 25% of our electricity needs. The carbon dioxide emissions that we save are equivalent to planting more than 13,000 trees annually!
  • Prides recycles 40 million gallons of water per year by recapturing it. We also follow water conservation protocols and use wetting agents in our soils to reduce the amount of water that plants need.
  • We use rice hulls on 75% of our containers to reduce weed pressure, this lowers our herbicide usage.
  • Prides uses controlled-release fertilizers. This has a low environmental impact, and is safe for animals, birds, and fish. The fertilizer is released slowly over time; we only use what we need.
  • We use biological, natural fungi in our soils to promote root health and plant performance.
  • Herbs, edibles and veggies grown at Prides are completely free of pesticides. We use 20 billion beneficial insects in our bio control programs every year to protect plants from pests naturally.
  • The majority of our new plastic pots contain 100% recycled plastic!
  • Because we are a large nursery, we produce enough waste to recycle it in bulk. Every year we recycle: 300,000 pounds of greenhouse film, 100,000 pounds of waste plastic, 100,000 pounds of used plastic pots 

While we are very proud of our sustainability programs, we will continue to build upon them. We have many exciting goals for the future, including: efficient and environmentally friendly trucks, a compost facility, more bio control programs, additional solar arrays, and a pot recycling program for customers.



    The most Diverse selection of plant material in Northeast
    Prides Corner Farms is the largest independent focused grower in the northeast with 4 growing locations in CT totaling over 600 growing acres. We grow a huge selection of containerized plants including woodies, perennials, fruit plants, roses and herbs that we deliver from Maine to Virginia & as far west as Michigan. The goal of our family owned nursery is to make the lives of our customer partners easier & to do anything to make them more successful & profitable.



    Prides Corner Farms has the most diverse selection of plant material in the northeast. With a single order to Prides Corner, you can fill a truck with trees, shrubs, herbs, perennials, and roses. Our state of the art shipping system and our friendly dedicated customer service staff enables us to provide you with these high quality plants, ready to sell, often within 48 hours of your call. Once you get our plants, our unique, customer friendly programs including Sara's Superb Herbs, The Solution Series, and All-American Daylilies will entice your customers and increase sales of the plants you have purchased.

    Address:     122 Waterman Rd. Lebanon, CT 06249
    Email:     sales@pridescorner.com     Contact:    
    Phone:    (800) 437-5168    FAX:     (860) 642-4155

                    


    All our programs are designed to give you the opportunity to make well informed decisions regarding plant material. The programs ensure that you make the right choice for your garden. Building customer confidence and establishing successful gardens are the ultimate goals of these programs. Choose your program...

    Why We Brand

    At Prides Corner, a diverse selection of high quality plants is just the start of what we offer.  We offer the most innovative selection of branded programs in the industry, developed solely with the idea of increasing sales in your garden center. The brands we offer will make a difference in your bottom line and captivate your customers while reinforcing your own brand strategy.

    • Enhance and sharpen your brand!
    • Branded plants have added value with the newest genetics
    • Branded plants have a built in brand story that make them appealing to consumers
    • Added value equals added margin and added turns!
    • Branded plants provide you with power and profit without the huge investment

    Branding plants and making them stand out in the consumer's mind is a vitally important step in allowing them to buy easier and quicker and for you to sell more at a higher profit! Take a look at our incredibly diverse selection of branded programs…there is something for every garden center and consumer!


    Underutilized, GORGEOUS Ornamental Grasses!
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    Our most important goal is to build a strong partnership with you and your business.

    Your Prides Corner Sales Team is the most visible part of building this relationship. Their desire and ability to listen to your needs and provide solutions to the problems you face every day. They strive to make you successful by providing you with exceptional service, plants, branded programs and information.

    Your PCF sales team may be your everyday contact but, rest assured, everyone at Prides Corner is part of your PCF sales team. Over 500 workers are focused every day on providing everything you need to be successful because, only then, will we be successful.

    Our plants, industry-leading brands, and programs are great tools for your business but the partnership your PCF sales team builds with you is the best tool we can provide for your business success and ours. One call to Prides Corner is just the start of a successful, winning partnership for you and your customers.

    Sales and Customer Service

                                       
    Stephanie Butterick

    Stephanie Butterick

    Sales Rep for Southern NY and Northern NJ

    Cell Phone: (860) 884-5493

    Fax: (860) 468-6102

    Sales Rep for Northern NJ, West Chester, Rockland, NYC, Hudson Valley, and Northeast New York

    Inside sales rep is Miranda Basley serving customers in Northern NJ, West Chester, Rockland, and NYC.

    Inside sales rep is Michelt Gonzalez serving customers in the Hudson Valley, and Northeast New York.

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    Prides Corner Farms

    Wholesale Grower - Family owned for more than 30 Years

    Prides Corner is a family-owned regional grower that has built its business over the last 40+ years by virtue of its incredible product diversity coupled with customer service that has set the standard for the industry.  Our goal is to be your best business partner, a partner that helps you grow, helps you sell and helps you to be more profitable.

    Growing over 2200 varieties of plants on 350+ acres, Prides Corner supplies our Independent Garden Center, Wholesale Yard and Landscaper customer base with lush, colorful, retail ready product weekly at the height of its salability to ensure it sells quickly at the highest profit point possible. We share the goal with our customers to keep the product moving because, with our incredible selection of trees, shrubs, perennials, groundcovers, grasses, roses, fruits, vegetables and herbs, we always have more superb looking product to fill the shelves.  Even better, we always have the selection to make putting a weekly order together a no-brainer,  we have the logistics to get the plants to our customers on time and ready to sell and, as a result, have the ability to help you control your inventory and your costs!

    Branded Programs

    Branded Programs and plants are a staple of what makes Prides Corner different.  Our goal is to provide the consumer with great genetics coupled with great stories that make buying a foregone conclusion. As a member of all the major national growing groups, Prides Corner has access to the latest and greatest new plants in Proven Winners, Endless Summer, David Austin Roses, Knockout Roses and others along with the great stories that make these plants and brands so compelling to the consumer. Further, we have created our own branded programs such as Sara’s Superb Herbs, Pink Ribbon Plants, Goodness Grows Edibles and White Flower Farm that provide independent garden centers and landscapers the ability to sell a diversified group of plants that are packaged in such a way that they speak to the consumer and appeal to their emotions driving sales.

    Industry Leading Logistics

    As a regional nursery that serves the northeast quadrant of the country from Maine to Virginia and west through Ohio, Prides Corner can assure you that your plants are close by, acclimatized to our unique climate and ready to thrive. Many regional growers in our area might be able to claim that same advantage but Prides Corner offers a further advantage.  We have set the standard on order turnaround in the green industry meaning that, even if your order arrives at Prides Corner on Wednesday, you still can have it at your garden center or on your job site and ready to sell by the weekend. 

    Our plant diversity is unmatched.  Our ability to service you by getting you what you need when you need it is the industry standard.  Our focus on inventory control and branded plants that speak to your customers and promote sales is unmatched.  With all these partnership building superlatives, we have something for everyone who wants to make their business more profitable.  Let us show you how Prides Corner can make a difference in your business!


               

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