Hello there. Lots of news and great links this week (skipped last week due to magazine production) including two deaths: Chris McVicker, founder of The Flanders Group, a longtime ally of our industry statewide, and Harry Newman, past president of what is now PLANT WNY. Services for Newman have already occurred, but there will be […]
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R.M. Landscape is currently looking to hire the following positions: Rochester Market: Landscape Management Account Manager Landscape Management Site Supervisors Enhancement/Construction Foreman Buffalo Market: Landscape Management Site Supervisor Landscape Management Crew members Join a growing team and grow your career in the landscape industry. Contact Brett Lemcke at [email protected] or 585.392.7120
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POSITION AVAILABLE GROUNDS KEEPER I ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO, INC. Requirements: • Minimum Education – AAS Degree in Ornamental Horticulture OR Equivalent work experience • Experience in basic grounds maintenance duties including lawn mowing, weed trimming, janitorial tasks, planting, pruning, and snow removal preferred. • Must be able to operate and maintain all lawn/garden equipment, […]
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Deadline for entry is Friday, April 18, 2014. Send entries to: Arts for Arbor Day 249 Highland Avenue Rochester, NY 14620-3036 The Arts for Arbor Day Contest is conducted by the Greater Rochester Arbor Day Committee whose members include representatives from: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County, City of Rochester, Monroe County Parks Department and […]
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Elbers Landscape Service Inc. is a family owned and operated business that has been in operation since 1919. We are looking for hard working individuals to come join our Garden Center Team. Duties to include but not be limited to: -Customer Service/Sales -Register operation -Maintaining nursery stock -Maintaining curb appeal of Garden Center -Load/Unload nursery […]
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Position: Garden Shop Staff Position: Assistant Garden Shop Manager Position: Landscape Foreman Position: Landscape Crew All links lead to Word documents
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Hello, all! Happy Friday to you. Some sad news out of the Rochester area this week. We lost two green industry friends, Ralph Genrich and Mike McNulty, both unexpectedly and Mike on the job. The two will be missed by many. Please be careful! Working away on the Upstate Gardeners’ Journal SPRING issue this week. […]
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DEC & CNLP credits available Download this PDF to register. Some details: 2014 Education Day Program Wednesday March 5th, 2014 Owego Treadway Inn Conference Center – 1100 State Route 17C – Owego, NY, 13827 Daniel Moreland, LEED GA 8:30 – 9:30 Belgard / Anchor, an Oldcastle Co. Segmental Mass Retaining Walls Dr. Norman Hummel Hummel […]
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Hi there! I’m just (ok, it was last week) back from a NYSNLA board meeting at SUNY Cobleskill. The meeting was great, but the best part about the trip was dinner the night before with students from the Plant Science department. I got to know three different kids with three very different ideas about where […]
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Woodstream Nurseries, inc. 8500 WOLCOTT ROAD · CLARENCE CENTER, N.Y. 14032 Telephone (716) 741-3434 · Fax (716) 741-2366 www.woodstreamnurseries.com
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Welcome to Ear to the Ground PRO, the companion blog to the industry newsletter of the same name where you'll get inside dirt on the green industry in upstate New York and beyond.
I'm Jane Milliman, also publisher of the Upstate Gardeners' Journal, which is a consumer-focused publication serving upstate New York. (You can read an online copy of the UGJ below.)
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