Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
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…
Things aren't so hot for property developers right now. In fact, they look pretty scary. It seems a big developer in Indianapolis has run into…
Here’s some nice things I ran across over the holidays. I hope they make you smile.FIRST OF THE YEARChristopher and Crystal Childers got a nice…
LM Staff, Landscape Management and LMOct 14, 2024
Strategies to survive and perhaps even prosper in spite of the delay or loss of H-2B workers
Wow, this is weird. Because Congress has failed to act on extending the exemption to H-2B, circuses say they'll be unable to bring in immigrant…
I don't how many of you got out of bed Christmas morning thankful to get a free meal of tamales, rice and beans, but apparently…
I don’t know Michael Lesser and have never met him. But he wrote an article in the Portsmouth Herald, which I accessed via Seacoast Online,…
To say that I’ve become increasingly cynical of the ability of our federal government, or any of its various bureaucracies, to deliver efficient and sane…
LM StaffDec 17, 2014
My 18-month-old daughter Ava has taught me to be a tough negotiator when it comes to TV time. Now that I think about it, she’s taught me a lot of other lessons that can be used in the business world too.
