Florida Awards
Every year, state programs recognize exemplary landowners as well as inspecting foresters and program volunteers.
CONGRATULATIONS BOYLES TREE FARM: 2025 JON GOULD FLORIDA OUTSTANDING TREE FARMER OF THE YEAR!
The Florida Tree Farm Program is excited to announce that Boyles Tree Farm is recognized as the 2025 Jon Gould Florida Outstanding Tree Farm of the Year. Boyles Tree Farm LLC (BTF) began in 1942 when Eugene Boyles, then a 22-year-old lieutenant in the Army and 1941 graduate of the University of Florida School of Agriculture, purchased a 365-acre farm near his parents in Suwannee County, FL. For half a century, Eugene was at the helm and added additional timber tracts through purchase and 1031 exchange amounting to 1,145 acres. After Eugene’s death in 1991, the management of Boyles Tree Farm conferred to his two sons; Joe and Fred, who have doubled the size of BTF to 2,235 acres. Joe Boyles is an Episcopal Priest, and Fred Boyles has a career in Historic Preservation. Joe and Fred work closely with the third generation of the Boyles family to facilitate succession and continue the family’s stewardship legacy. Currently, nine descendants of Eugene and Frances own the properties. Read more about Boyles Tree Farm here.
Join us for a tour of a few of Boyles Tree Farm tracts on November 12. Find details and registration at Boyles Tree Farm Tour, November 12, 2025.
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JON GOULD FLORIDA OUTSTANDING TREE FARMERS OF THE YEAR 2006 Jon & Carol Gould 2007 Martha Pridgen 2008 Dennis Andrews 2009 Harvey Sweeney 2010 Bill McMillan 2011 Ellis & Marie Smith 2012 Benjamin & Judi Wyche 2013 Jeff & Melody Scott 2014 Woodward Family 2015 John & Elizabeth Alter 2016 Register Family Trust 2017 John & Allison Nash 2018 Doug &Teresa Moore
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John Russell 2020 Don & Theo Ashley (watch the video about Don and Theo Ashley's Outstanding Tree Farm) 2021 Ben and Louann Williams (watch 2021 Outstanding Tree Farm of the Year video) 2022 Albert Fuller (watch the video about Albert Fuller: 2022 Florida Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year) 2023 Terry & Howard Putnal (watch the video about the Putnal's Outstanding Tree Farm) 2024 Floyd Vanzant (Read more about this recognition and the Vanzant family forest here) 2025 Boyles Tree Farm (Read more about this recognition and Boyles Tree Farm here)
Florida’s Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year Award honors the memory of Mr. Jon Gould, a respected member of Florida’s Tree Farm Program State Committee and a proud Tree Farmer and advocate for forestry for more than 30 years throughout the southeast. Mr. Gould was selected as the Florida Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year in 2006 and as the Southern Regional Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year in 2018. Mr. Gould passed in 2019. However, his legacy lives as an ultimate model of the Tree Farm Program for which the Florida award is now renamed beginning in 2020. Learn more about Jon, his wife Carol and the Gould Tree Farm at: https://www.treefarmsystem.org/south-nominee-goulds
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