AmericanHort Board of Directors & Advisory Council Resources
Thank you for your involvement in AmericanHort! We are proud to have you as board members and Advisory Councils. Your role as an ambassador of AmericanHort is important to our long-term success. We appreciate your assistance in helping extend our reach in the industry by spreading the word and asking your industry peers to consider joining AmericanHort.
Below are a variety of AmericanHort communication tools you can use to help spread the word about AmericanHort and to assist us in recruiting new member companies.
The 2026 AmericanHort Fall Meeting
Thank you to everyone who attending the AmericanHort Fall meeting held October 19-21, 2026 in Columbus, OH.
We appreciate the time you invested, the energy you brought to our conversations, and your continued commitment to our association and the horticulture industry.
Here are a few resources from that meeting for your reference:
Meeting Slides – here are meeting slides from Monday October 19. They include the presentation on transitioning from Community Connectors to Advisory Councils.
Notes from Industry Pulse – Voices from Across the Industry panel discussion – Each Advisory Council representative participated in a panel discussion. The group talked about current business conditions, challenges, opportunities, innovations, what to watch out for, and shared thoughts and ideas on how AmericanHort can best impact the industry.
Board and Advisory Council Roster: provides a directory of your fellow Board and Advisory Council members. We encourage you to use it to stay connected and continue conversations beyond our meetings.
this is a quick pitch you can use when speaking with a customer, vendor, industry peer about AmericanHort
General Recruitment Letter/Email
Use this letter to send to your customers, vendors or industry peers who are not AmericanHort member to ask them to become members.
Membership Excel List
This directory is updated at the start of each quarter to ensure accuracy. Please note that this list is confidential and intended solely for verifying membership status. To comply with GDPR regulations and email marketing best practices, it must not be shared, sold, or duplicated. AmericanHort does not disclose member lists outside of the printed Resource Directory.
AmericanHort has 3 videos you can share about membership in the organization.
This membership video shares comments from various industry members about the member benefits.
A membership video created to focus on recruiting members from the nursery segment.
Membership Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This documentoutlines some of the most common questions you might expect to be asked about membership in AmericanHort. You are always welcome to refer people directly to us to answer any questions someone might have.
This letterfocuses on the advocacy work of the organization. This is ideal to use for companies you think will most appreciate AmericanHort’s advocacy efforts.
This letter focuses on the benefit of the educational programming AmericanHort offers. Use this letter for anyone you think will have interest in having access to AmericanHort educational programming.
AmericanHort Resource Directory
Click the button to view the AmericanHort Resource Directory
We invite you to communicate your involvement with AmericanHort. You might do this in your email signature, on your company webpage, in social media, etc. Here are logos for your use. Note—for email signature lines, we recommend you use the small logo size file.
We invite you to communicate your involvement with AmericanHort. You might do this in your email signature, on your company webpage, in social media, etc. Here are logos for your use. Note—for email signature lines, we recommend you use the small logo size file.