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Oct 5, 2023

Taking part in trade shows is good for business — and for employee morale

Brent Vanderkruk is the customer service manager of NVK Nurseries, a fourth generation wholesale nursery based in Dundas, Ont. With over 100 years in business, NVK is one of Canada’s largest wholesale nurseries, serving customers across the country and in several U.S. states.
Aug 2, 2023

Landscapers can create peace by embracing Indigenous ways of knowing

As an urban indigenous woman, Jody Harbour started deeply exploring her own heritage and roots a little over 10 years ago.
Aug 3, 2022

Taking on the storm

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
May 12, 2022

Year of the Garden 2022

Gloria Beck is encouraging Canadian landscape and horticulture professionals to support Year of the Garden 2022.
Feb 8, 2022

Building on “The Rock”

Landscape Trades recently had the opportunity to talk landscaping with builder Randy Spracklin, of HGTV’s Rock Solid Builds fame.
Nadina Galle
Dec 14, 2021

Plugging into nature

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
Oct 13, 2021

Making the cut in landscape maintenance

Brad Paton is president of Shades of Summer Landscaping, based in Waterdown, Ont.
Nichole Ashton
Aug 9, 2021

Reducing salt output

Nichole Ashton is a trainer and the contractor representative for the Smart About Salt Council (SASC).
Lee Ann Knudsen
May 4, 2021

Signing off, one last time

Landscape Trades publisher Lee Ann Knudsen retired in January, after more than 20 years with the magazine.
Jan Pedersen
Feb 1, 2021

50 years (and counting) in horticulture

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