AWARDS

Environmental Steward Award

Click HERE to submit you nomination form on-line. Contact the VNLA Office with any questions via phone, 804 256 2700, or email.

The first recipient of the Environmental Steward Award was Norfolk Botanical Garden.

Evaluation for the individual and/or company that is deemed the recipient of the award which began in January 2007. The VNLA looks forward to inducting the next recipient of this award. Be the very best you, or company, can be to have minimal negative impact on our environment.

Judging Criteria for the Environmental Award

• To be eligible to receive this award, the recipient must be a current individual or company VNLA member in good standing.
• One award will be presented each year based upon adequately fulfilling, or exceeding the criteria, otherwise, the award will be skipped that year.
• Participants are encouraged to maintain due diligence in practicing and utilizing best management principles (BMP) resulting in the least negative impact on our environment.
• Each individual or company will promote and show that our horticultural industry has a more positive than negative impact on our environment by how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

　”Remember to be environmentally sensitive for our future generations.”
Rich Johnson – Past VNLA President 2006

	2022 No Recipient
	2021 No Recipient
	2020 No Recipient
	2019 John Magee
	2018 No Recipient
	2017 No Recipient
	2016 Brent Hunsinger (L) Brents Native Plantings Fredericksburg, VA
	2015 Eric Gunderson (l) Southern Branch Nursery Chesapeake
	2014 Michele Fletcher Landscape Design Rockbridge Baths, VA
	2013 No Award
	2012 Tom Saunders (r) Saunders Brothers Piney River, VA
	2011 Eastern Shore Nursery of Virginia
	2010 No recipient
	2009 Dr. Laurie Fox
	2008 No recipient
	2007 Norfolk Botanical Garden