Greenwood Nursery earns state award

Cheryl, left, and Steve Jones, owners of Greenwood Nursery, were recently named the Conservation Promotion state winner at the 60th Tennessee Association of Conservation Districts annual convention in Nashville. (Photo provided)

Greenwood Nursery was named the Conservation Promotion state winner at the 60th Tennessee Association of Conservation Districts annual convention recently held at the Music City Sheraton in Nashville.

Steve and Cheryl Jones, owners of Greenwood Nursery, have developed and maintained a Web site www.landsteward.org to help raise public awareness a bout plants and conservation issues. They also produce a weekly column call “The Plant Man,” now running in over 80 newspapers nationwide informing the public about planting, plant care, landscaping, and conservation projects.

In 1993, Greenwood Nursery began working with the National Association of Conservation Districts to create a plant program through which the conservation districts could raise needed monies to help fund local projects.

They designed all literature for the program and did the packaging and shipping of plant packages to the end customer. The program has been successful involving as many as several hundred of the country’s conservation districts.

Steve and Cheryl own 229 acres of land. Conservation practices installed on their land include contour buffer strips, contour field strips, field borders, filter strips, tail water recovery system, waterways, and wildlife plantings.

There was a video presentation during the awards breakfast depicting the work that had been done to promote conservation. Steve and Cheryl were presented a plaque by Jim Nance of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.