Our Success Begins With You

Getting ready for a great kick off to Spring 2019 started with going to a lot of conferences. While attending these conferences I learned new and improved ways to accomplish that top of the line turf on your sod farms, golf courses and athletic fields.

Although we might be done with all these classes, we never need to stop learning or teaching what we took in this winter. With that said, I would like to challenge you all this upcoming year. Let us each resolve to do one extra thing this year to further our cause in the turf industry. Here are a few examples:

• Encourage your peers to join Tennessee Turfgrass Association

• Make a presentation at your place of work, to your local high school, FFA or college about possible turf careers available

• Attend a local city council meeting when ordinances are on the agenda such as real grass versus synthetic

• Donate to the Tennessee Turfgrass Endowment Fund

• Spend one hour per week learning about new issues that we have to pursue. Swap on hour of video games or TV to invest in your career

• Speak up at a local gardening class or maybe a HOA meeting and let your neighbors see that you as a TTA member are a good thing for the environment.

The future of turfgrass all begins with you, so get out there and talk about grass and get people motivated about it.

Jason Pooler

TTA President

Jason Pooler, TTA President