The Maine Landscape and Nursery Association supports all green industry businesses, nurseries, landscape professionals and garden centers. MELNA also advocates on issues of importance, collects and disseminates important information, promotes best management practice and coordinates educational and networking events to strengthen connections within the industry.
When you belong to MELNA, you belong to a tight-knit, professional group whose members actively help support one another through networking, referrals, knowledge sharing, and the development of friendships that last a lifetime.
As soon as your application information and dues are received and approved, you will be added to the online MELNA Member Directory if you so desire. You’ll be able to log in and see members-only pages, edit your contact information, and change/add photographs to your own online gallery.
Our Brochure
(1) Print and MailDownload the New_Member_Application-2023-2024 to print and mail. You may send us a check or provide a credit card number.
If you’d like to create a MELNA user account to edit your online details later, fill out and submit the Request for MELNA User Account form below. You will soon receive an email with a password.
By clicking “Member Login” under the Members tab and entering that password, you will be able to see members-only pages and edit your own business information.
(2) Online Membership Application You’ll be able to see your business listing right away in the Members Directory if you opted to be included, and edit any details by choosing “Edit Your Listing” under the Members tab. You might want to view the recommendations on “How to Update Your Info” first.
Request for MELNA User Account:
Please send me a password for melna.org
Other Benefits:
Active – $185.00 per year. Active membership is a corporate level membership for any Maine based company or individual proprietor that derive the majority of their income from practicing in the field of horticulture and allied professions. Maine Certified Professionals may join as Active Member only if their company is not an Active Member. Only Active Members are allowed a voting interest in the governance of MELNA.
Allied – $185.00 per year. Allied membership is a corporate level membership for all suppliers’ companies, as well as out of state nurseries, landscape companies, and other out of state green industry professionals who want to join MELNA. Allied members receive all the benefits of Active members except for voting rights.
Associate – $40.00 per year. Associate membership is for individuals who are engaged in or allied with the green industry, but who are not joining as a business. Examples would be educators, government employees, employees of a company who is a member, employees of a company who is a non-member, landscape architects, landscape designers, horticultural therapists, master gardeners, etc. Any member discounts of benefits do not extend beyond the individual who is an associate member. Maine Certified Professionals may join as Associate Member.
Student – $15.00 per year. Student membership is for students enrolled as a degree student in horticulture at an accredited college or university.
Active Members hold the right to vote; all members shall be permitted to attend meetings of the Association, whether executive committee, special or annual and shall be accorded all privileges and obligations of membership.
All memberships expire on June 30. Renewal invoices are typically mailed in June; with memberships not renewed by July 31 considered to be lapsed at that time.
For new members joining From Dec. 1 through Feb 28, only 50% of dues is required for membership through June 30.
For new members joining from March 1 through June 30; pay one year’s dues and your membership will be good through June 30 of the FOLLOWING year (up to 16 months membership for one year’s dues).