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Timberline Landscaping continues to deal with labor force issues.

NALP Member Timberline Landscaping Talks About Continuing to Battle Labor Force Challenges

Joshua Pool, chief operations officer of Timberline Landscaping, says he has always been one to gravitate toward the outdoors. Growing up in Central Kansas, Pool admits he loved playing in the dirt and being outside as often as he possibly could. After working with a local landscape company during his last year of high school, […]

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Kevin McHale talks about how to reincentivize employees.

3 Things McHale Landscape Does to Reincentivize Employees

Employee retention has never been much of an issue at McHale Landscape Design, a $20-million full-service landscape and maintenance company based in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. In fact, the company has many long-term employees who have been with the business for two decades or moreā€”including McHaleā€™s 50 foremen. But Kevin McHale, president, says he was getting […]

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Southern Landscape Group talks about recruiting strategies.

Southern Landscape Group’s Top 2 Recruiting Strategies

Letā€™s face it: As a result of the lack of knowledge available to people about the landscape industry and the career potential within, its image is tainted. This is particularly true with younger generations. ā€œStudents and parents think itā€™s a dirty job and that you donā€™t make any money in landscaping; we just have this […]

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Meet NALP Member Chris Lee of Earthworks

Chris Lee admits he canā€™t pinpoint exactly what got him into the landscape business. But he is certain that the opportunity to ā€œdo his own thing,ā€ and to ā€œput his stamp on something bigger than himselfā€ were driving factors. Since founding Earthworks Inc., in 1979, Leeā€”who serves as presidentā€”has adapted and evolved the business many […]

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Landscape America talks about overcoming a growth bottleneck.

How Landscape America Overcame a Growth Bottleneck

A savvy business owner knows he or she constantly needs to be on the lookout for a growth bottleneck. If they want their businesses to continue to grow and perform, they need to remove these ā€œhold-ups.” But what if the owner is the bottleneck? That was exactly the case for Doug McDuff and his business […]

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Mark Borst talks about employee referral rewards at Borst Landscape & Design.

How Borst Landscape & Design Makes Employee Referral Rewards Work

Like so many other landscape professionals, Mark Borst, owner of Borst Landscape & Design in Allendale, New Jersey, says the labor pool in his area often feels quite dry. Itā€™s an ongoing struggle to find qualified workers. Thatā€™s why, about seven years ago, Borst began experimenting with employee referral rewards.Ā  Since that time, refining the […]

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How to Be a Better Branch Manager at Gachina Landscape Management

Switching companiesā€”or even just positions within the same companyā€”always brings a new set of challenges. For Bill Horn, East Branch Manager for Gachina Landscape Management in Menlo Park, California, 30-plus years with the same company had him used to a certain way of doing business. Horn brought his ideas to Gachina and had to find […]

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How YardApes Survived Not Getting its Returning H-2B Workers

Like a lot of landscape business owners, Shayne Newman, owner of YardApes, a full-service design, construction and maintenance company, was significantly impacted by the lack of visas to come through the H-2B program this past year. Of the 66,000 available, he didnā€™t get a single oneā€”and he admits he was unprepared for it to be […]

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Meet NALP Member Bill Dysert of Exscape Designs

Exscape Designs is a full service design/build company headquartered in Novelty, Ohio. Owner Bill Dysert says the company’s success comes from upholding and operating by three key core values: integrity, professionalism and accountability. “Our mission is to design, build and maintain outdoor living spaces that enhance the property value and quality of life for our […]

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NALP member Bruce Allentuck

Meet NALP Member Bruce Allentuck of Allentuck Landscaping

NALP member Bruce Allentuck says he was young and naive when he started mowing lawns as a kid. He had no idea there was a whole industry out there representing landscape maintenance. He just knew he enjoyed being outside and doing a good, honest dayā€™s work. NALP Member Spotlight Bruce Allentuck, Allentuck Landscaping Location: Clarksburg, […]

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