Landscape Management, May 2018
backstory INTERVIEW BY ABBY HART Darren Gruner With daughter Jessica 23 and son Michael 18 Jessica The Juice will graduate in a year with her bachelors degree in education she wants to teach early childhood development Shes a great role model and Im so proud of her Michael is graduating high school this year and has accepted a football scholarship to Ursinus College Hes got a great head on his shoulders I want to make sure that our station touches everybody who loves the outdoors no matter what it is and I wanted to be able to talk in laymans terms LANDSCAPEMANAGEMENT NET May 2018 56 I love being on the water being outside and enjoying warm weather Thats why I moved to South Florida I took pre med in college paying my own way through school with the money I was making doing what I truly loved landscaping I soon realized that I would be happier staying true to who I am and that I should follow my own dream not the dream my parents had for me I lived in the Northeast and as a result Kentucky Blue was seasonal so I had to take on other work during the off season I learned a lot about how to manage a business manage people and how to deal with all kinds of different customers When you look out your back window I want that to be a picture of your dream I want to create a path for you to walk through that picture and be in that picture PrinciPal ToTAlscAPE dEsIgN Host TuRfs uP RAdIo foRT lAudERdAlE flA EducATIoN Cherry Hill High School West Cherry Hill N J Class of 1982 Burlington County Community College Mount Laurel N J 1993 1995 WoRK EXPERIENcE 1977 2016 Kentucky Blue Principal Lindenwold N J 1990 1993 Dolcis Shoes Assistant Manager Manager N J Pa and Del 2010 present Turfs Up Radio Host West Palm Beach Fla 2012 present TotalScape Design Principal Fort Lauderdale Fla I taught myself to be better in business throughout the years WoRds of WIsdom I keep the phrase I cant out of my vocabulary Even when I was a kid I helped my competitors I always shared my industry knowledge and I knew that while I was teaching other people it would help me to be better in my own business and I loved that Its a big reason why I started Turfs up Radio dont let others define who you are strive to be a leader in your industry Be focused and driven and never give up PHOTOS Darren Gruner As the host of Turfs Up Radio I got to interview pro golfer Guy Burrows Shannon Easter director of golf maintenance at Broken Sound Country Club in Boca Raton Fla and Russ Britton CEO of Mirimichi Green at the PGA Allianz Championship last season
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