Landscape Management, November 2014
i turf ornamental care million at his Columbus Ohio location and 800000 for the Frederick Md offce with both locations offering lawn care and tree and shrub services to an 80 20 mix of residential and commercial customers Green looks good on smaller frms too In 2013 Nathan Brandon started Pure Green in Franklin Tenn after selling his interest in a traditional lawn care company Today he has three full time workers one part time worker and serves both residential clients and commercial properties Hes seeing more clients asking for a more natural approach WHY GO GREEN NOW Many lawn care frms say customers are requesting natural approaches to fertilizers and pesticides In addition the choice of organic natural and biological products are better than ever says Barrett Ersek CEO of Holganix a supplier of bionutritional products headquartered in Glen Mills Pa aving you money on your commercial auto insurance Discounts include co l lect LANDSCAPEMANAGEMENT NET November 2014 24 In the past natural products were smelly clumping or inconsistent Ersek says In the last 10 years more bridge products have been developed providing lawn care frms with the ease of synthetics and the benefts of organics Founded in 2010 Holganix was recently named to Inc magazines 500 list a ranking of the countrys fastest growing privately held frms Long gone are the meager offerings of compost tea or dried manure Options are available from a range of suppliers and include products that strengthen the plants and amend the soil including kelp sugars humates polymer gels amino acids bacteria and fungi such as mycorrhizae The products and the forms available are improved says Bob Bauwens manager of national and international photo freedom lawns Discoun ts l ect safe driver business experience Paid in full them all 1 800 PROGRESSIVE PROGRESSIVE com Progressive Casualty Ins Co affi liates Discounts not available in all states Hybrid lawn care programs often echo traditional ones in terms of the number of visits
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