MoGIA Fall Field Day (2024)

In partnership with Nursery and Landscape Association of Greater St. Louis (LNAGSL) and Gateway Professional Horticulture Association (GPHA).

Morning Breakouts:

• Tree Talk - Bill Spradley (Trees, Forest, and Landscapes)
• Soils - Roy Gross (STL Compost)
• Training Young Trees (Pea Ridge Forest)
• Trees for Bees - James Faupel (Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum)
• Pest and Disease Update - Susan Ehlenbeck (Missouri Department of Agriculture)
• Designing with Trees – Michael Garrett (Frisella)

• Pea Ridge Forest – Mike Rood
• Razor Hollow Natural Area – Mike Leahy (MDC)

St. Louis Composting -- ENRICHING THE SOIL NATURALLY SINCE 1992
St. Louis Composting provides STA Certified Compost, premium soil blends, and a wide variety of natural and colored mulches. With 11 locations throughout Missouri and Illinois, St. Louis Composting has provided residential and commercial customers with high-quality compost, mulch, and custom soil mixes since 1992.

Frisella Nursery -- Come, Experience Life at Frisella Nursery
Located in beautiful Defiance, MO, Frisella Nursery is a local plant nursery like no other. Our garden center has everything you’ll need to get—and keep—your garden growing thanks to our extensive selection of Missouri native plants and locally grown plants cultivated in our own plant and tree nurseries right here in Missouri.

Missouri Department of Agriculture
Mission Statement: "To serve, promote, and protect the agricultural producers, processors, and consumers of Missouri’s food, fuel, and fiber products."The Missouri Department of Agriculture, located in Jefferson City, Mo., is dedicated to the promotion and protection of the state’s agriculture industry.

Pea Ridge Forest -- Wholesale Tree Nursery & Christmas Tree Farm
Pea Ridge Forest is a family owned and operated tree farm. Growing quality trees has always been our mission, whether it be Christmas trees for our choose and cut operation or balled and burlapped trees for our wholesale nursery. Pride in our work has been the cornerstone or our business. As such, Pea Ridge Forest has remained a source of quality trees since 1972.

Family Owned, Locally Grown
Wholesale Tree Nursery & Christmas Tree Farm
Pea Ridge Forest is a family owned and operated tree farm. Growing quality trees has always been our mission, whether it be Christmas trees for our choose and cut operation or balled and burlapped trees for our wholesale nursery. Pride in our work has been the cornerstone or our business. As such, Pea Ridge Forest has remained a source of quality trees since 1972.

Since 1972, Pea Ridge Forest is a family owned wholesale grower of quality nursery stock specializing in the latest cultivar introductions. We also offer cut Christmas trees.

MoGIA Membership: Missouri Green Industry Alliance
The professions of Missouri’s green industry is represented by a single, non-profit organization known as MoGIA or the Missouri Green Industry Alliance -- Join Today!