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Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Mike Leman moved from Illinois to Colorado in 1982 with the goal of working in agriculture. Unable to find an ag job that would pay the bills, he ended up becoming a landscape laborer. He spent […]
This information came from a session during the 2022Ā ELEVATEĀ conference and expo. Donāt miss the 2023 ELEVATE in Dallas on Sept. 10-13. It’s commonly said that in business, youāre either growing or dying. If you want your company to still be around in the next five, 10 or 15 years, you have to consider what an […]
If you asked Tabitha Coker, director of sales and marketing for King Green, to define marketing, sheāll admit the term is broad and used too inconsistently for a simple definition. Ā Coker has been with King Green since 2001, and over the years, their marketing efforts have expanded and evolved significantly. She says she realized […]
In this replay episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus III, system architect at Include Software, Brett Lemcke, VP of R.M. Landscape and Macey Robinson, branch manager at LandCare, talk with Jenny Girard, area manager with R.M. Landscape. Girard earned her associate degree in science and mathematics before moving on […]
This information came from a session during the 2022 ELEVATE conference and expo. Donāt miss the 2023 ELEVATE in Dallas on Sept. 10-13. Most lawn and landscape company owners want to grow their businesses. How to go about doing that will vary, as there is no one perfect method, but several others in the industry share what […]
If youāve looked into water conservation methods that can be utilized in the landscape, youāve probably run across the term greywater or greywater irrigation. Greywater is the used water from showers, tubs, bathroom sinks and washing machines. It is not used water from toilets, kitchen sinks or dishwashers. That is known as blackwater. In a […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in conjunction with the Department of Labor (DOL), will be issuing a regulation that will make an additional 64,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year (FY) 2023. These visas are in addition to the 66,000 H-2B visas that are normally allocated each fiscal year. DHS hopes that […]
This information came from a session during the 2022 ELEVATE conference and expo. Donāt miss the 2023 ELEVATE in Dallas on Sept. 10-13. While the demand for landscape services has remained high, client expectations are also incredibly high. This can be a problem as there are a number of challenges landscape professionals face on a daily basis, […]
In season 3, episode 21 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Neal Glatt of GrowTheBench and Macey Robinson at LandCare talk to Trista Imrich, owner of Wild Works of Whimsey. Imrich is a Virginia Certified Horticulturist and Designer and Level 2 Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional in design and installation (CBLP-ID).Ā A Navy […]
You canāt foresee everything that might happen on a landscape installation project, and sometimes this can result in necessary change orders. Improving your design process can help eliminate some of these occurrences, but they can still happen from time to time. Sometimes it is because the issue at hand is something that could not be […]
