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Christopher Thacker went from being a 12-year-old kid with a shovel to running one of Toronto’s largest snow removal operations.

Gloria Beck is encouraging Canadian landscape and horticulture professionals to support Year of the Garden 2022.

Landscape Trades recently had the opportunity to talk landscaping with builder Randy Spracklin, of HGTV’s Rock Solid Builds fame.

An ecological engineer by training, Dr. Nadina Galle researches, designs and pilots emerging technologies to better monitor (and reconnect people to) urban ecosystems — a framework she coined in her doctoral thesis titled “Internet of Nature” (IoN).

Brad Paton is president of Shades of Summer Landscaping, based in Waterdown, Ont.

Nichole Ashton is a trainer and the contractor representative for the Smart About Salt Council (SASC).

Landscape Trades publisher Lee Ann Knudsen retired in January, after more than 20 years with the magazine.

Jan Pedersen is an icon of the horticultural industry and he has earned that reputation, with 50 years of service in our trade.

Sandy Roberton, retired from operating Earthcraft Landscape in Bedford, N.S., has spent his career pushing for educational and certification opportunities in the profession he loves, landscape horticulture.

Peggy Walsh Craig is well known in the industry — especially within the nursery sector for her many contributions to the ornamental sector as the Managing Director of the Canadian Ornamental Plant Foundation (COPF), a position she held for 21 years from 1990 to her retirement in 2011.