Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
Clean Air Lawn Care looks like it might take off. The lawn service company, which is based in Fort Collins, CO, uses electric and biodiesel-fueled…
Residents of Corona, CA are asking their city leaders to raise landscaping fees. In fact they're trying to force the city into action. Apparently aan…
Several homes in Mukwonago, WI, have been targeted by thieves who are making away with trees, flowers and shrubs.According to Newsradio 620 in Wisconsin: Elsie…
DES MOINES, IA — The feds are finding lots of wage violations among landscape/lawn service companies, says Percella Maupins, the wage hour district director for…
As protests go, this one is strictly small time. But it reflects what anybody who runs a route service business is feeling right now.Earl Humphreys…
Bert’s Bar & Grill in Matlacha, FL, is the kind of joint you would hope to stumble onto assuming you were lucky enough to stumble…
Eli Estrada, the 40-year-old landscaper who found $140,000 in unmarked $20s and turned it into police, is somewhat of a celebrity in Southern California. When…
The United Press International reports that Jay Herrod, the professional landscaper that wears a short green skirt when he's mowing, is going to have put…
The Guardian reports: In a bid to keep its municipal lawns trim while saving money, the city of Turin has done away with lawn mowers…
This from the April 9, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle:It was a tempting sight for struggling landscaper Eli Estrada: a bag filled with $140,000 on a…
Congo (aka “The Mauler”) will live. His life has been spared. Congo, as you may recall from previous blogs, is the German shepherd that chewed…
Donald Nicholas, a seasonal grounds worker at a Staten Island cemetery, won $1 million in the New York Lottery this week. He will be paid…
In his last year in office, President George W. Bush seems to have taken a big interest in the landscape industry. First, he visits Wright…
I’ don’t who the singer Brandy is or why she is famous. Anyway, I thought some recent publicity involving Brandy was kind of funny, at…
We're finally reaching that tipping point when it comes to fuel prices, that point where we finally change our driving and vehicle-buying habits.I'm seeing it…
I’ve always been in awe of these guys who can operate big, powerful construction equipment likes it’s easiest thing in the world. It could be…
Grasscycling “new” againWhat is old is suddenly new again. Remember the “Grasscycling” push put on by the Professional Lawn Care Association of America (PLCAA) in…
I don’t often write about products in this blog. In fact, I don’t think I ever have — until now. What I want to tell…
Robert Johnson and his wife, Cia, started up their own lawn mowing business this year in Columbia, MO. The name of the company is "The…
Check out Jeff Thredgold’s enewsletter on his Web site http://www.thredgold.com/index.html. Jeff is an economist and also one of the most entertaining speakers you’ll ever get…
Under the category of “No Good Deed Should Go Unpunished . . .oops, make that Unappreciated”, I inform you of some good work being done…
Bizarre (but real) news from the whacky world of lawns.This past Monday, Feb. 12, grandmother Betty Perry agreed to a last-minute deal with the City…
While I’m sure there’s many of you out there who are interested in the upcoming presidential election, I realize many of you weren’t able to…
If you're going to put down some weed & feed on your front yard in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, you better do it in the dead…
