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Help NALP celebrate these members in the news. Members in the News: Yellowstone Acquires Native Land Design Yellowstone Landscape acquired Native Land Design, adding Houston and McAllen, Texas, to its locations. Native Land Design is a $15-million company with 250 employees focusing on commercial landscapes. All Native employees were retained, and no brand change is […]
Born and raised in the beautiful city of Medellin, Colombia, Lizeth Miller has spent most of her life in South America. She earned a bachelorās degree in finance from the University of Medellin-Colombia and completed an internship in the Bank of Bogota as a credit analyst. But Miller was looking for something different. In 2014 […]
A former high school math teacher who graduated with a degree in philosophy, Doug Delano puts a lot of emphasis on education. He believes in the power of knowledge. So when he came to landscaping as a later careerāgetting hired at Ruppert LandscapeāDelano threw himself into learning as much as he could. However, in 1998, […]
Though he grew up around the industryāhis father and uncle started R.M. Landscape, a western New York landscape companyāBrett Lemcke says he was never pushed into it. But he loved it. After earning a horticulture degree at the State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskillāand completing an internship at Gachina […]
Michael Kravitsky IV, CTP-CSL, owner and president of Grasshopper Lawns Inc., in Larksville, Pennsylvania, has always run a family business. It got its start in 1964 when Kravitskyās father (Michael III) joined the Lawn-A-Mat franchise. In 1980, his father went independent and Grasshopper Lawns was born. Kravitsky joined the business full-time in 1980. āFor 36 […]
As one of eight kidsāhis mom a nurse and his dad an architectāCraig Ruppert, CEO of Ruppert Landscape, says money was often tight. As a teenager in the early 1970s, Ruppert started mowing neighborsā lawns with his brother, Chris, to earn extra income. āWe were motivated and enjoyed working hard,ā Ruppert says. āPeople began to […]
Although he grew up around landscaping, Dean DeSantis, owner of DeSantis Landscapes in Portland, didnāt initially imagine heād follow the same career path as his father, who started the business in 1974. At the time, DeSantis was just eight years old and says he spent most of his summers helping out. Even so, he just […]
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, […]
Like many other landscape business owners, Richard Arlington says he got his start in landscaping as a kid. Mowing grass, raking leaves and shoveling snow was an easy way to earn some income. Upon returning home from some time in the Marines, Arlington says he couldnāt find a jobāso he returned to doing what he […]
Chris Lee admits he canāt pinpoint exactly what got him into the landscape business. But he is certain that the opportunity to ādo his own thing,ā and to āput his stamp on something bigger than himselfā were driving factors. Since founding Earthworks Inc., in 1979, Leeāwho serves as presidentāhas adapted and evolved the business many […]
