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Last year, Sun Valley Landscaping, based in Omaha, Nebraska, struggled with employee turnover. These employees cited overwhelming personal circumstances that caused many of them to quit. Yet Paul Fraynd, LIC, co-owner of Sun Valley, says he felt like he was failing. āWe donāt have a lot of people that leave to go work at the […]
In season 3, episode 7 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Brett Lemcke of R.M. Landscape and Macey Robinson with LandCare talk with each other. In this podcast, our hosts reflect back on the last six months and look forward to the next six months and how you get through those moments. […]
Youāve probably heard the slogan āAlways be recruitingā before. But how do you make that motto a reality? For Brilar, based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, they decide to create a dedicated talent acquisition team six months ago. There are five people on the team currently, with two talent acquisition specialists, one talent acquisition associate, a […]
Life will always challenge you in different ways. What matters is how you deal with the challenge of change. If you want to learn how to manage to win despite the circumstances, donāt miss the closing general session at ELEVATE on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Entrepreneur, former Super-Bowl winning NFL quarterback, and NFL analyst Joe […]
In this replay episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench, Miles Kuperus, system architect at Include Software, and Brett Lemcke, VP of R.M. Landscape, talk with Macey Robinson, a branch manager for LandCare in Dallas, Texas. Robinson has been with LandCare since 2017 when she came […]
The sixth annual NALP Field Trip took place at R.P. Marzilli & Companyās headquarters in Medway, Massachusetts, on June 23-24. This $53 million-dollar company specializes in high-end, high-quality residential work. More than 250 landscape and lawn care professionals assembled for an in-person tour of their facility. Over the two days, hosts Marty Grunder and Frank […]
In season 3, episode 5 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Brett Lemcke with RM Landscape, Luke Melograno with Mariani Landscape, and Macey Robinson with LandCare, talk with Mark Javier, founder of Plants Without Borders. Ā Javier studied economics at UC San Diego and worked for six years at various startups in […]
Sponsored Content If youāve been in the industry for any period of time, you know that your fellow landscape professionals are always willing to share and connect with one another. One platform in particular that allows pros to help other pros succeed is the ECHO Means Business (EMB) website.Ā In 2016, ECHO formed the User […]
Dry stone walling originated in England and requires considerable skill as these walls do not use mortar. The nonprofit Stone Trust provides workshops to preserve and advance the art and craft of dry stone walling. Back in 2019, Chappy Manzer, owner of Manzerās Landscape Design and Development, Inc., based in Peekskill, New York, and […]
If you want to establish strong relationships with landscape architects outside your company or strengthen the current ones you have, there are a number of mistakes you can avoid making. Ā āWhat I have learned is that many of the LAs we deal with have had negative experiences with contractors that want a shortcut,ā says […]
