PLEASE STOP the idea to spend well over $100 Million of tax payer dollars just from Commonwealth of Virginia + untold millions from Virginia Beach to attempt to successfully move VT AREC. SaveAREC.com

Many use & partner with the centrally located VT AREC including:

Groups

Educational

Tidewater Community College horticulture classes

Norfolk State University

Virginia Wesleyan University

Hampton University

Old Dominion University

Hampton Roads elementary, middle and high schools

Local VoTech programs

Local home school programs

Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners

Virginia Master Naturalists

Norfolk Botanical Garden

Barry Robinson Center Horticulture Instructors

Virginia Tech - various researchers (transportation, vegetable, wildlife)

Public

Garden clubs

Photographers

Bird watchers

Geocaching

Dog walkers and trainers
Scouts

State Fair youth plant ID team 

Virginia Flower & Garden Expo

Professional

The American Hort Foundation/Horticultural Research Institute  

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture

Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association 
Mid-Atlantic Horticultural Short Course
Virginia Turfgrass Foundation
Virginia Turfgrass Council
Come to the Bay Turfgrass Short Course
Virginia Strawberry Growers Association
Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals
Wetlands Watch
Elizabeth River Project
Lynnhaven River NOW
Southeast Virginia Urban Forest Roundtable
Trees Virginia

Government

Virginia Dept Environmental Quality Coastal Zone Management

Virginia Dept Conservation and Recreation

Virginia Dept of Wildlife Resources

Municipal stormwater departments

Virginia Cooperative Extension

Hampton Roads Planning District Commission

PLEASE SIGN & SHARE THIS PETITION if Virginia Tech AREC is important to YOU & YOUR future generations. 

Learn more about the amazing Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center at their website. ​

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