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Becoming a member of the NGISA can be very beneficial, below is some detailed information regarding the benefits that NGISA Membership provides to your business.
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Facebook Forum
NGISA has a dedicated page for NGISA members only to share information and to stay abreast of issues of concern to the industry.
“What’s Growing On”
We produce a bi-monthly colour printed magazine for the industry. It is designed to be read by owners and employees of member businesses, industry stakeholders and councils throughout SA and is posted to over 400 subscribers.
The magazine welcomes advertising from industry members and is at very affordable prices. Classified advertisements from members are free.
SALIFE Gardens & Outdoor Living Magazine
The Nursery & Garden Industry SA is partner with Solstice Media to produce a quarterly full colour magazine designed for widespread distribution across South Australia. Members of NGISA contribute articles to the publication so it is very relevant to the SA home gardener.
Garden centres are provided with copies to sell or use as a marketing tool to promote gardening in South Australia. The magazine is also sold in newsagents and supermarkets. It is the ultimate way to get your garden product noticed by gardeners across our target markets.
Garden Goss – An Event for NGISA Members
Quarterly networking events are held to provide members with the opportunity to catch up socially to talk all things industry! Each event has a short presentation followed by related discussion. Ticket prices are $20 for members and includes your meal and beverages.
Legal – Jodie Bradbrook – Bradbrook Lawyers
NGISA has negotiated a special rate for its members with Bradbrook Lawyers for any legal matters.
Industrial Relations and business advice: Workplace Partners
NGISA operates under the Nursery Award 2010 (MA000033). Copies of the award are available online from Fair Work Australia.
NGISA utilises the skills and knowledge of Arvin Bisbal from Workplace Partners to assist in any matters relating to Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Workplace Safety and Workers Compensation.
Education and Training
Occasional workshops are facilitated by NGISA. These workshops are designed specifically for the Nursery and Garden Industry and include professional development and marketing and technical advice. These are offered at special rates to members.
Insurance
Arthur J Gallagher& Co. insurance brokers have developed the “Nursery Pac” which is specifically designed for members of the nursery industry. NGISA has negotiated competitive and relevant insurance policies rates.
NIASA Members also attract a 10% discount for business insurance.
Trade Day
Trade Day is a vital feature within the NGISA network where wholesalers and allied traders display, promote and sell their products to retailers. Exhibitors include green life growers, allied traders, manufacturing agents and affiliated industries from SA and beyond.
Trade days are usually held in Spring each year underneath the grandstand at Morphettville Racecourse at Morphettville.
Awards of Excellence
NGISA’s premier promotion acknowledges the industry’s highest achievers, and all members are eligible to enter. The awards are presented annually at what has become the industry’s most prestigious social event.
National Greenlife Industry Australia benefits
Greenlife Industry Australia (GIA) represents the interest of the industry at a national level including:
- Negotiating issues with the Federal Government including; Biosecurity, Environment, Industrial Relations, Water and Weed Management.
- Providing regular news and information through a variety of online and printed communications
Nursery Production Farm Management System (FMS)
This program is administered by GIA and includes the Nursery Industry Accreditation Scheme Australia (NIASA), Ecohort and Biosecure HACCP systems.
- NIASA provides accreditation for continual business improvement and professional development. It helps nursery businesses deal with production efficiencies, government regulations and advancing technology as well as acknowledging excellence.
- EcoHort is the industry specific certification guidelines or Environmental Management System (EMS). It is a method by which a grower can demonstrate to industry, government and the community their sound environmental and natural resource stewardship.
- Biosecure HACCP. This is the industry specific biosecurity program designed to assist growers in assessing their current and future pest, disease and weed risks, and guide businesses in the implementation of management strategies at critical control points. The program validates many of the best management practice strategies employed under the Nursery Industry Accreditation Scheme Australia (NIASA).
Plant Health Diagnostic Service
Grow Help Australia (DAF Qld) have accessed Nursery Industry Levy funds to create a program which offers:
➢ Testing
- 10 free basic/complex samples (as per Grow Help website) for each NIASA accredited nursery. (Molecular tests and nematode extractions are still charged owing to the greater time/cost associated with the tests and outsourcing required.) Samples could be media/water tests for Phytophthora or actual plant samples;
- Discounted nursery samples for all production nurseries that are not NIASA, in the range of $60 to $140 per sample;
➢ Production of pest and disease management literature
- 4 fact sheets produced per year.
- 1 pest management plan each year, some years have 2 pest management plans depending on other outputs.
- 1 nursery paper per year.
- 15 Pest ID tool pest descriptions.
➢ Training
- 1 workshop in South Australia each year
- 4 webinars per year.
Australian Garden Centre Accreditation Scheme (AGCAS)
The Australian Garden Centre Accreditation Scheme (AGCAS) is an GIA scheme designed to encourage and recognise excellence in garden centre retailing. South Australia has 10 retail garden centres accredited under this national best practices scheme. AGCAS Members in SA benefit from promotional and advertising activities supplied to them by the NGISA Office, along with a yearly audit.
Improve Your Plant Life Balance
The Improve Your Plant Life Balance program is the promotional campaign developed through the Nursery Industry Levy and which is also promoted in South Australia by the NGISA.
Greener Places Better Spaces
What was the 202020 Vision project has become ‘Greener Places Better Spaces’ which is a program working with organisations and businesses to grow more and better green spaces in Australia’s urban areas. It is managed by Hort Innovation on behalf of the nursery and garden industry utilising the Nursery Industry Levy and Australian Government funding. The program includes extensive stakeholder relations.
National Nursery Trade Register
A free listing of your business – products and details – is included in the online National Nursery Trade Register.
Other benefits include:
- Regular GIA technical and business advisory papers
- Reduced rates for national conferences
- Reduced rates on manuals and promotional materials
- Marketing and retail advice at a national level
- Hort Innovation market research reports and newsletters
- Updates from Fairwork Australia
- Qantas Club Corporate Membership discount
- Caltex Starcard membership access with discounts on fuels
OUR SPONSORS: NGISA are proudly supported by our major sponsors.
About the NGISA
The South Australian branch was formed in 1908 as the SA Association of Nurserymen and Seedsmen and has been recognised as the peak industry body for amenity horticulture in South Australia since those times.
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Postal: 505 Fullarton Road,
Netherby, SA 5062
Phone: (08) 8271 1012