Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Emergency room doctor Nathan Arnold makes house calls.But he won’t be bringing a little black satchel of pills and ointments. He’ll…
NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS — The Bahamas Landscape Association (BLA) launched this spring. As of the end of May more than 50 individual and company members…
Not all the news you read in the newspapers or see on television makes you want to jump off a tall building. Every once in…
Paul Tukey's film, Hudson: A Chemical Reaction, premiered in Hudson, Monday night. Hudson is the small town in Quebec Province that set off the chain…
You won’t be seeing this movie in the local cinemax, but you might get to see it at a regional or state conference. Or maybe…
I recently read with interest an article in the Aurora Beacon (IL) newspaper about Kevin Franz and his Go Green Mowing Company. Apparently, Frantz has…
Years ago, a good friend was in charge of the cemetery maintenance in our small town. For some reason he didn’t get the cemetery in…
Abu Dhabi is one of the seven emirates and the second largest city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the Persian Gulf. Although it…
We're in awe of how fast this sustainability movement is taking off.It appears that it's no longer just a word, but a movement, real. We’re…
If you’re in the mowing business be aware of the new ‘green” water meters that are being installed in some cities. The meters, which are…
Do you want to sell green? Well, green by itself won't cut it with the great majority of consumers, says Honey Rand, Ph.D., APR, an…
Apparently, cocoa mulch and dogs don’t go together very well. We just ran across an article in a local newspaper about a man’s dog gulping…
Are Canadian's feelings against the use of common synthetic pesticides on lawns as strong as the responses to recent news articles suggest? Or is the…
The U.S. National Arboretum is "going green" with the installation of its first solar-powered drip irrigation system that will save electricity and water at the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — I’m beginning to get the feeling that the U.S. government, perhaps channeling Thomas Jefferson’s vision of America, would like us to return…
Emeric McCleary, a first generation U.S. born Mexican-American who lives in Alexandria, KY, maintains a blog for businesses that employ Latin American workers.The tips and…
BOISBRIAND, QUEBEC — RobotShip and BelRobotics have signed a distribution relationship to improve distribution of battery-powered BigMow and ParcMow commercial robot lawn mowers and a…
DENVER — Davey Tree Expert Co., Whit Tree Service, Jim's Pride Landscaping, Cyn Mar, Fertek, Van Diest Supply, Bestyard.com, Green Mountain Lawn and Tree Care,…
SAVANNAH, GA — Three companies have been chosen as finalists in the waterSmart Landscape Challenge here. The winner, which will be determined by public vote,…
The Pew Hispanic Center today released "A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States," which includes population and labor force estimates for each state,…
The world's first large-scale "pollination park" is a step closer to reality and will be on the agenda during a Pollination Symposium to be held…
A lot has been made in our region of the Great Lakes in northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan of seniors slipping into Canada to buy…
A news article in a recent issue of the Indianpolis Star, a newspaper I used to read every day as a college student in Indiana…
Just after First Lady, Michelle Obama, broke ground for the White House vegetable garden, Plangarden released an online interactive version of the Obama's organic garden…
