A couple of snapshots that depict where the LM team has traveled over the past couple of months, including the NALP Field Trip in San Diego.

Orange is the new black Casey Black, branch manager for LandCare’s Orange County, Calif., branch, and Ryan Burrow, business development, LandCare, sport the company colors (it’s tangerine, not orange) at the NALP Field Trip in San Diego.

Grover, Grunder, Grover David Grover (left) and his dad Bob Grover of Oregon’s Pacific Landscape Management (right) and Emily Grunder, The Grow Group, take time for the camera at the 2019 NALP Field Trip to San Diego.

Field Trip friends Vince Torchia, vice president, The Grow Group, Brett Newendorp, landscape market manager, Vermeer, and Bill Roddy, publisher, Landscape Management, can now say they’ve been on a Field Trip together.

A Flyer and a Jayhawk Marty Grunder, president and CEO, The Grow Group and Grunder Landscaping, and Seth Jones, editor-in-chief, Landscape Management, agree on many things, but they agree to disagree on college basketball. It looks like Grunder’s Dayton Flyers and Jones’ Kansas Jayhawks will both be in Hawaii for the Maui Invitational — perhaps this score should be settled in person at the tournament, fellas.

Karl Strauss Brewing Co. crew It was a fun bunch that took in dinner (and some craft beers) at the NALP Field Trip, including the guys from Colorado Springs, Colo.’s Timberline Landscaping (Josh, Max, Jake and David up front), the LandscapeHub team (Jeremy and Brian, middle), Scott of Live Green Landscape Associates (seated next to Bill) and the LM team (Seth and Bill in the back).

Who wants cake? Steel Green Manufacturing rang in its first full year in business with an open house at the Steel Green factory. The Steel Green leadership team, left to right: Scot Jones, operations manager; Craig Conyer, production manager; Brent Mills, general manager; Michael Floyd, inventory control manager; and Matt Smith, sales manager.