 Griffin Expo
You can see the pots in person at the Griffin Greenhouse Supply Expo taking place on Wednesday August 14 and Thursday August 15 at the Eastern States Expo Center in West Springfield, Mass. More information about the Expo.
Where to buy Griffin Greenhouse Supply is the exclusive sales agent for these pots and will handle all sales orders and invoicing. You can place orders through your Griffin representative . |
 Marketing Fee
The price of New York Flower Power pots includes a marketing fee that will be used to further our marketing efforts and programs, such as the Spring Billboard Campaign. Just by taking part in the pot program, you'll be supporting our effortsand helping to strengthen New York's horticulture businesses.
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 Colors In addition to our standard white pot with green lettering, we will also be offering a green pot with white lettering in a select size.
The green pot will be available in only the 12cm (4.5" ger) size. Orders for the green pots must total 30,000 pots between all our members in order for this color to be printed. All pots regardless of color or size will feature both the NY Flower Power logo and the Pride of NY logo.
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Funding Available
We are very excited that Farm Credit East has agreed to offer a financing program in conjunction with the New York Flower Power pot. They are offering loans to all qualified businesses to help pay for your pot order. You do not have to be a member of Farm Credit East to apply for this loan and they are willing to consider any amount, including micro-loans.
If you are interested in obtaining financing, please contact Bob Wiederhold of Farm Credit East at (518) 692-0269.
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Farm Bureau looking for input on Pride of New York vs. Taste of New York
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Recently Ned Chapman attended Farm Bureau's commodity sum mit in Syracuse, NY. At this meeting, it was announced that the NYS government was considering the replacement of the "Pride of New York" program with a "Taste of New York" program.
See the following attached articles:
While Taste of NY would obviously be of interest to food farmers and restaurants, it simply does not work for the rest of NY's agricultural industries. Taste of NY just wouldn't apply to New York's many garden centers, plant growers, Christmas tree growers, sod farmers, and nursery growers. It also doesn't take into account that the Pride of NY program does work when supported by the government and given funding.
Why not have both programs going? Taste of NY would benefit food producers, food retailers, and restaurants while Pride of NY works well for the horticulture industry. Other states already have dual programs that work well together. NJ uses the Jersey Fresh and Jersey Grown programs in conjunction with each other to the mutual benefit of each.
So please contact your county's Farm Bureau rep and let them know that you'd like to keep the Pride of NY program and if the NYS government replaces the Pride of NY program with the Taste of NY program, the government would be ignoring a huge part of agriculture in New York state.
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So that's it for now from New York Flower Power. Keep an eye out for more emails - we have a bunch of new articles to send out! Hope all is going well with you and we'll be in touch soon for the Fall season. Lea Chapman
NY Flower Power & Sunnyside Gardens
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