NIASA accredited & Eco-Hort certified

The Bush Garden Nursery is now a NIASA accredited and Eco-Hort certified production nursery.

Essentially this means that the company has met the green-life production and environmental protection standards set by the Australian Nursery & Garden Industry. This badge provides the business with recognition for the many years of hard work required to establish a best practice production nursery.

NIASA (Nursery Industry Accreditation Scheme Australia) accreditation means that this nursery is operating at industry best practice levels in the following areas.

• Crop hygiene – prevention and control of disease, pests and weeds
• Crop management practices
• General site management – staff management, professionalism and customer service
• The environment – environmental management systems and performance
• Water use and disposal
• Risk assessment – analysing risks through the use of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) criteria
• Knowledge improvement

EcoHort – This certification provides recognition that this nursery is an environmentally conscious business and has:

• utilised a recognised system for assessing likely environmental and natural resource impacts, and
• is managing these impacts in a responsible and sustainable manner.