Indiana Christmas Tree Growers Association
Indiana Christmas Tree Growers Association
Meetings & Events

ICTGA 2012 Winter Meeting
January 27 - 28, 2012 
Holiday Inn Select 
Lafayette, IN   

The ICTGA/ICTA winter meeting will begin on Friday, January 27th at 8:30 am and run through Saturday, January 28, 3:00 pm.  To view the updated schedule of events and registration form click on the 2012 Winter Meeting Registration & Schedule. 
Registration forms are due by January 10th!!!

Don't forget to make your hotel reservations by calling Holiday Inn Select - 765-423-1000 and mention Indiana Christmas Tree Growers to get our special room rate. 

2011 Indiana State Fair

A big thanks to Milt Yakey for organizing the State Fair booth and the tree/wreath contest. Several ICTGA members helped educate the public about the real tree and passed out the 2011 Buyer's guides. The ICTGA booth is great exposure for our organization to promote our product, the real tree. If you have never worked the booth please consider doing so next year.

Children were given the opportunity to decorate ornaments that will be sent with the trees for troops. All the ornaments were used to decorate one tree at the booth. Money was raised for the T4T program through a donation box.

Hensler Nursery was awarded Grand Champion tree with their Fraser Fir. Congratulations!

2011 Gift & Hobby Show

The annual Christmas Gift and Hobby Show will be held in the West Pavilion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis November 9-13. ICTGA will have a booth to promote the use of a real Christmas tree as well as the Trees for Troops program. Members volunteered at the booth to educate the public as well as distribute our association buyers guides.

Trees for Troops

The pick up date for the 2011 Trees for Troops program was November 29th at Dull's Tree Farm. Over 200 trees will be  shipped out to the US Navy in Bahrain, the Seabees in Rota, Spain and the Great Lakes Naval Stateion.  Several volunteers from the National FFA, Western Boone FFA, FedEx, Indiana Department of Ag and the local community will help sort, process and load the trees for shipment.

 

2011 Statehouse Tree Program

Jeff Alexander is the coordinator for  the 2011 Statehouse Tree Program. The trees will be delivered to the statehouse on December 12th to be ready for the Trim the Tree program on Wednesday, December 14th.  ICTGA is fortunate to have the opportunity to display our product in several different statehouse offices as well as in the rotunda. Hensler Nursery will provide the rotunda tree,

2011 trees placed in the statehouse included:

Rotunda Tree - Concolor Fir from Hensler Nursery
Governor's office - Fraser fir from Eby's Evergreen Plantation
Lt. Governor's office - Fraser fir from Hensler Nursery
Department of Education - Fraser fir from Millbrook Tree Farm
Department of Forestry - White pine from St. Joe Tree Farm
Department of Natural Resources - Fraser fir from Hillcrest Tree Farm
Department of Agriculture - White pine from Dull's Tree Farm

On the following Wednesday, December 14th the first lady hosted the Statehouse Holiday Tree Trim program in which 4th graders from around the state attended to decorate the rotunda tree.  The DVD, Life of a Christmas Tree, produced by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, was shown on that day.  This DVD was produced in cooperation with Dull's Tree Farm to promote the environmental benefits of a real tree.