Scholarship

The Georgia Tree Farm System is accepting applications for $1,500 scholarships for college bound high school seniors, college freshmen, sophomores and juniors. Applicants must be a legal dependent of a Certified Georgia Tree Farmer in the Americcan Tree Farm System for at least two years. Download 2024 scholarship application here.

2023 Scholarship Recipients

Scholarships Provided by Marc and Melissa Inglese Foundation 

Peyton Nicole Free - David Emanuel Academy

James William Ross - Georgia Military College Prep School

Eric Alden Horton, Jr. - Benedictine Military School

Past Scholarship Recipients - Provided by Marc & Melissa Inglese Foundation 

2022
Carys Fonner - Macon, GA
Cole Kennedy - Newnan, GA
Molly McClellan - Darien, GA
Elizabeth Peters  - The Rock, GA

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Scholarship Funds Provided by Friends of Joseph R. Niolon, Jr. In Memoriam

John-Thomas Padgett Rodgers, Jr. - North Oconee High School

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2023 Scholarships Provided by Georgia Tree Farm Program

Hannah Claire Duncan - Newnan High School

Willaim Duane Fore - Wilcox County High School

Samuel Haygood - Mt. Paran Christian School

 Georgia Tree Farm

Past Scholarship Recipients

2022
Lillian Niolon-Kachur - Atlanta, GA
Sydney Lawson - Hawkinsville, GA
Jordan Aldridge - East Dublin, GA

2021
Brynn Morris - Loganville, GA
Skyla Morris - Loganville, GA

2020
Nolan Haley - Lumber City, GA
Pilcher Thornton - Cordele, GA

2019
Elizabeth Dixon - Wilkinson County, GA
Gracie Hunt - Jasper County, GA

2018
Madeline Wiley - Watkinsville, GA

2017
Anya Dunn - Winston, GA
Zane Holcomb - Plainville, GA

2015 
Tyler Smith - Swainsboro, GA
Samuel Johnson - Madison, GA

2014
Camilla Dartnell - Rutledge, GA 
Emily Smith - Swainsboro, GA

2013
Eliza Nixon - Augusta, GA
Alea Simmons - Cairo, GA

2012
Anna Johnson - Hazlehurst, GA
Jana Simmons - Cairo, GA

2011
Sy Crumley - Ty Ty, GA
Anne Marie McCullough - Claxton, GA

2010
Aaron Henslin - Screven, GA
Joshua Jameson - Gyton, GA

2009
Maury Johnson - Hazelhurst, GA
Kaherine Lacksen - Sparta, GA
Mary Crumley - Ty Ty, GA

2008
Malin Dartnell - Madison, GA
Kristen Hamsley - Hawkinsville, GA

2007
Rachel L. Rafferty - Griffin, GA

2006
Robert L. Allen - Peachtree City, GA
Tabitha Chaffin - Hogansville, GA
Megan S. Deloach - Gray, GA

The Georgia Tree Farm Scholarship program was established in 1987 to assist the dependents of Georgia members of the American Tree Farm System to pursue a higher education in the professional field of their choice. Recipients are selected by the Georgia Tree Farm Scholarship selection committee. The program is funded through contributions made by individual Tree Farmers of Georgia and the Silent Auction at the GFA Annual Meeting. This scholarship will be awarded without regard to race, color, nationality origin, age, sex or disability.

Recipient must be a citizen of the United States of America, and legal dependent of a Georgia Tree Farmer. The Tree Farm must have been registered in the program for two or more years.