Build A Dream Home

"Good morning, Tate family" was the wake-up call Tom and Cynthia Tate and their
three children had been hoping for since they were forced out of their home in early
June 2006. Ty Pennington and his design crew from ABC Television's popular-show,
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition came to the Tampa Bay area that early January
morning to awaken this deserving family.

Tom and Cynthia Tate are well known in their tight community of Davis Island. They
own a restaurant and are responsible for giving many of the kids in town their first
jobs, and have participated in almost every volunteer or charity event around the
island. Cynthia is heavily involved with the Boy and Girl Scouts and the PTA.

Cynthia was home alone when a plane crashed into their house in June 2006. The
pilot lost his life, along with the Tate family pets. The co-pilot was badly burned but
survived. Cynthia miraculously escaped without any injuries, but the house and
everything inside was destroyed. To make matters worse, because of the unusual
circumstances that led to the home's destruction, it was not insured and the Tates
were unable to pay off the existing mortgage, let alone rebuild their home.

That's when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition stepped in to help. In just one week,
Jan. 7-14, the show's design team and Bonita Springs-based WCI Communities,
along with its trade partners, including Forestry Resources, rebuilt the Tates home
from the ground up.

On Friday, Jan. 12, Alan Shaffer, FRI's vice president of sales & marketing, and Bruce
Green, a FRI driver, left their Fort Myers warehouse at 5:30 a.m. to meet a window
for the delivery of plant matter, mulch and planting soil to the jobsite on the island.
After off-loading the truck, Bruce and Alan were invited to tour the site while proudly
wearing their new Extreme Makeover's famous bright blue shirts. "The little island
community was jumping with big equipment traffic, and the neighborhood was
scurrying about to take in the attention given to this important construction project,"
noted Alan. "All in all, it was an ‘extremely' exciting project and we are proud to
partner with WCI to give back to the community by supporting this deserving family
by providing a premium, environmentally-sensible, all natural wood mulch and
associated products." Exclusive to WCI, the attractive appearance of the WCI Gold
Mulch is recognized throughout Florida's elite housing communities contributing to
a holistic landscape design.

Custom Product Needs?

We can create custom products to suit your unique needs just like we did for
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Our safe & reliable custom products are produced
from natural timber. Specify your specific texture, size and coloration and wrap it up
in your own private label package!

Follow These Guidelines And Mulch With Ease

Today, mulch can come from anywhere. Are you taking the appropriate precautions to protect yourself and your clients?

Many common landscaping mulches used around your yard can be toxic, because ome manufacturers use chemically treated wood. When this happens, arsenic residue may end up in the yard and under swing sets and playground equipment, which after prolonged exposure to chromated copper arsenate (CCA) can cause cancer in children.

CCA is a chemical preservative that protects wood from rotting due to insects and microbial agents. It is considered such a health and environmental threat that in December 2006 the Florida Department of Environmental Protection drafted a rule
prohibiting CCA-treated wood in mulch, decorative chips or any other wood product that is applied as ground cover.

The Mulch and Soil Council (MSC) has already adopted standards prohibiting the use of CCA-treated wood in all consumer mulch and soil products. The certification program helps consumers identify mulches and soils that comply with industry standards.

There is one way to ensure that your mulch is coming from a responsible source - check the label. Look for the MSC-certification logo on packaging, or review the list of suppliers and retailers on the MSC Web site www.mulchandsoilcouncil.org.

Forestry Resources has been supplying the trade and homeowners with safe, clean mulches for over 20 years. In 1983, the company introduced FloriMulch, an environmentally sensible alternative to cypress mulch, and since then has been at the forefront of new product development.

Forestry Resources is dedicated to addressing the rapidly changing needs of residential and commercial properties. We are the first to have developed an end-use landscape mulching product made exclusively from melaleuca trees, a prolific and exotic invasive that destroys wetlands and natural habitat. We carry a full line of landscape products, including pruning equipment, tree-staking supplies, fertilizers, accessories and other installation and maintenance items at five Southwest Florida locations: Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Naples, Estero and Bonita Springs.

For information about Forestry Resources, landscaping and landscape products, care tips and information from landscape experts, call 239.334.7343. Take steps to ensure safe, reliable products!

FRI Partnering With Value-Added Grower

Pretty to look at, soft to the touch, and a joy to have around the place - it's Empire Zoysia, a warm-season turf grass that has other landscapes green with envy. The hardyvariety with tight-blade growth thrives in all of Florida's hardiness zones, grows well in a variety of soils (including sandy loams) and has a list of pluses and benefits that make this aesthetic beauty increasingly popular with professionals:

• Requires less water and fertilizer
• Shade tolerant
• Heat resistant & drought tolerant
• Slow growing so less mowing
• Chinch bug resistant

Among the high-profile users are Universal Studios Escape, The Villages - a retirement town in Central Florida - and Reunion Resort & Club near Disney World in Orlando.

"Empire Zoysia has a deep, rich green color, deep roots and densely packed blades, which makes it an excellent commercial choice for golf courses, theme parks, office complexes and residential communities," said Mike Pope, national sales manager for Bethel Farms in Arcadia, the leading grower and supplier of premium sod.

High performance, low maintenance and on the cutting edge, and Forestry Resources adds one more benefit- pre-book your order and we will deliver direct to your jobsite.

ASK FOR THEM BY NAME TO ENSURE TOP QUALITY!

Sapphire:

• Most popular grass variety in Florida
• Adaptable in many Florida soil conditions
• Attractive with an appealing blue-green hue
• One of only two grasses resistant to the southern chinch bug
• Establishes quickly and is the most vigorous of any St. Augustine variety

Palmetto:

• Performs well full sun or shade
• Thrives in moderate to heavily shaded areas
• An exceptional dark green color
• Requires less irrigation and is drought tolerant due to its deep, massive root system
• Good cold tolerance and a higher degree of frost tolerance.

Celebration:

• Widely used in southern states because of its durability, adaptability for lush deep-green lawns
• Thrives in heat and humidity provided it is watered during dry spells
• Highly tolerant of mildly alkaline soils and grows well in near neutral soil with regular fertilization

Coming To A Screen Near You!

Have an existing account with Forestry Resources? Very soon, you'll be able to view your account information, 24 hours a day from anywhere. We're adding a special, secure online access to our point-of-purchase/accounting program, iNet, that we are branding as MyGoMulch, available via our Web site at www.GoMulch.com.

You can take advantage of a password-protected area that will give you direct access to:

• Invoices
• Account Balances w/ Signature Capture
• Statements
• Payments
• Adjustments
• Product Database
• Catalog and more!

Customers can print or convert any information to a PDF for saving to their computer, and can use the new feature to track orders (current and past) and monitor their own inventory patterns. Check it out! Visit www.GoMulch.com, click on the MyGoMulch button in the top right column and you'll be just two clicks away from viewing your account details!

Your access is private, the information is secure, and watch for updates because much more is coming to a screen near you.