Sharp sales tools and fresh marketing ideas!
Grow Native! membership helps your native plant business grow.
"With the marketing and educational efforts of the Grow Native! team members, our business has been transformed! PHF now has an exciting and profitable future growing Missouri natives for an ever-expanding market. We look forward to building our relationship with the Grow Native! team."
--Devin and Glenda Chandler, Prairie Hill Farm owners
Native plants are a natural to increase your bottom line! When you become an active participant in the Grow Native! member association you'll join over 100 of your peers including retail garden centers, wholesale growers, landscape architects and designers, conservation contractors and land and watershed planners. Learn more about native plants and their effective use while building relationships with other leaders in the native plant industry and increasing your bottom line.
Grow Native! offers business development expertise through the Missouri Department of Agriculture's (MDA) domestic and international marketing assistance, business counseling, and financial programs to help you promote and build your native plant business.
MDA can help increase demand for and use of Missouri native plant materials. By using coordinated materials and industry-wide branding, MDA will help build the Grow Native! brand. And increasing brand recognition and value translates into profits at your personal business level. MDA will also explore new, alternative native plant markets and related agribusiness opportunities to help identify, assess and prioritize new market opportunities.
The Grow Native! member association allows us to provide other benefits that add value to your business including quality marketing materials and business development and a strong, branded identity for Missouri's native plant materials market. The annual membership fee of $50 is the same for each membership category. One fee covers all Grow Native! categories appropriate to the member.
Grow Native! members receive:
- Listing on the Grow Native! "Buyers' Guide" page as a preferred source for Missouri-source, nursery-propagated native plant materials and services plus listing on the Missouri Department of Agriculture's AgriMissouri "Buyers' Guide". Customers can also narrow their search with "Find Suppliers"
- Member profile that you can personalize to promote your business on the Grow Native! "Buyers' Guide" page. With an average of over 100,000 'hits' a month, it's a great place to be found by your customers
- Access to business development information on the Grow Native! "Build a Business" area including press releases, PowerPoint presentations, upcoming events, seasonal marketing ideas, sales tips and more
- Quarterly e-newsletter
- Usage rights to Grow Native! logo in your own advertising
- Opportunity to participate in regional trade shows and conferences sponsored by Grow Native!
- Professional trainings and workshops to broaden your knowledge of natives and their effective use in landscapes
- Supplies of Grow Native! educational brochures at no additional cost
- Grow Native! marketing support materials at cost including point-of-purchase displays, plant tags and logowear
- "Workshop and Events" for notices of industry meetings, educational opportunities and more
"Native plants are a hot trend in today's horticulture market and now represent 85% of our company's annual plant sales. Their unique beauty, resilience and wildlife benefits satisfy customers and bring them back for more. Grow Native!'s marketing tools and referral system have helped FKN capitalize on the native plant trend and increase our bottom line."
--Wayne Lovelace, Forrest Keeling Nursery General Manager
If you want to become a member, or are a member and have misplaced your password, please contact us or call 573-522-4170.
Membership Application
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When we receive and process your application, membership agreement and payment you will receive a welcome call and a packet of additional materials. Please contact us (573) 522-4170 or e-mail grownative@mda.mo.gov with any questions or comments you have.
Memberships are for a calendar year from January through December.
