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Jill Odom is the senior content manager for the National Association of Landscape Professionals.
In a sea of metal, wood and concrete, an oasis of green could be found at the NALP Foundationās booth at the annual SkillsUSA Championships inside the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. This booth featured plants, artificial turf and a herringbone paver pathway throughout it. An estimated 15,000 students, teachers, education leaders and representatives […]
Since Nussbaum Group, based in Redmond, Washington, started their maintenance team in 2005, they have only offered 100% organic maintenance services. āWhile some companies may offer the choice to be organic, or not, we only allow 100% organic ā for the good of our people, clients, the environment, and society,ā says Dale Nussbaum, founder and […]
Employee resource groups, commonly called ERGs, are employee-led communities with shared identities and interests. They serve as a place employees can network, work on professional development and raise awareness of relevant issues. While you might think these are only for large corporate entities, ERGs can exist in businesses of any size, as their goal is […]
If youāre wanting to add another service offering for your customer base, typically, youāll want to simply create a new division within your lawn or landscape business. However, there are certain cases where spinning off this new service into a secondary brand can be a better fit. Reasons To Create A Secondary Business Chase Coates, […]
No one wants to experience them, but bad quarters will happen as you operate your lawn care or landscape business. Sometimes a bad quarter is due to external factors utterly out of your control, like Mother Nature not delivering the snow you expected for the winter season. Other times, internal factors like poor marketing strategies […]
On June 13 and 14, nearly 130 landscape professionals from at least 25 states gathered at the nationās capital to meet with their representatives to lobby for the permanent worker exclusion for the H-2B program. āI think if landscape professionals want to change policy and impact policy, they have to be able to show up […]
Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. It was the beautiful stripes professional mowing services created that first attracted Taylor Milliken to the landscape industry. He started out mowing lawns with his friend at 15 years old. āI always knew I wanted to […]
Imagine trying to go about your day constantly holding your breath or only being able to breathe through a straw? Not the most pleasant living conditions, right? Likewise, your customersā lawns could be experiencing something similar if the soil lacks healthy oxygen levels. Signs of Poor Soil Health A number of factors can impact soil […]
When a building becomes dilapidated, itās often torn down to make way for the new. This is not the case for Raleigh Iron Works, located in Raleigh, North Carolina. This historic space has been reclaimed and transformed into a mixed-use development. In 2021, Jamestown & Grubb Ventures Services broke ground on Raleigh Iron Works and […]
Russell Landscape Group has achieved 20 percent annual organic growth over the last eight years. How they achieved this, as well as how they plan to continue to grow, is one of the aspects attendees of the seventh annual NALP Field Trip were able to discover on June 6-7. This $62 million-dollar company headquartered in […]
