Should you be in the landscaping business?
Maybe you grow the best wisteria on the block, you name your garden tools, and you’re an organized dynamo. Oh, and you have a degree in landscape management.
You’re a natural, right?
Larry Leon has some questions for you that might be eye opening.
The Level Green Culture Blog
Behind the scenes and insider information for landscaping careers and green industry jobs.
Behind the scenes and insider information for landscaping careers and green industry jobs.
When Ashley Beazer muses about landscaping and why she likes it, you’d never know she’s a college sophomore who’s just started learning the ropes.
A confident deep thinker, Ashley kind of wows you.
It’s no surprise she won a $1,000 college scholarship through the National Association of Landscape Professionals, funded by contributor Level Green Landscaping.
A sophomore studying Landscape Management at
Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Ashley talks about landscaping as the perfect fit for her multifaceted self.
“I discovered it’s a mix of business and art and science, “ she says. “That was appealing to me. I didn’t have to choose to be only a scientist or only an artist or only a businesswoman. I could do it all, and in a setting that I loved — outside, in nature.”
She knows she’s not the only one who loves to be outside.
“It’s a place where people make connections and discover meaning,” she says. “You connect with family outside, with friends, with yourself, with God. Being a part of creating and maintaining that space is special. It’s being part of something bigger than you, and I like that.”
A sign above Lynn Garris’ office door read “Boss Lady,” and it was true.
Lynn knew everything about Level Green Landscaping, could solve most any problem, and if you were new at work, you might have been a little afraid of her at first.
But that office door with the Boss Lady sign was also a portal of sorts, to a place where everybody knew they could talk about anything, with no judgement, and no fear of their words ever leaving Lynn’s office.
Lynn’s friends and colleagues at Level Green Landscaping are remembering her kind listening ear, her humor, and her delicious food as they mourn the loss of their beloved office manager, who died on January 30th after an illness.
It’s just the way she would have wanted to be remembered.
Sometimes the path to your perfect place isn’t straight, like the crisp edge of a newly laid patio, but curving, like a meandering garden path.
Jenna Visco thought she wanted to be a chemist. Then she was pretty sure she wanted to be a landscape designer.
Nope and nope.
Is it a big deal that Dave Briggs has worked at Level Green Landscaping for 15 years?
Depends on who you ask.
Around here, it’s a pretty big deal. Dave was the first account manager to come on board, back in 2005 when just a handful of employees worked here.
But it’s all a matter of perspective, Dave says. His twin brother, Tom, has worked at the same electrical company for 35 years.
Leave it to your twin brother to show you up.
The crews at Level Green Landscaping’s North Branch don’t wear your average, boring cloth safety masks.
They sport Snoopy. Planets. Cat masks that proclaim, “You had me at meow.”
They’re hand-crafted by Kathy Schneider, the effervescent mom of branch manager Joey Schneider. Nothing about her is boring.
Kathy sews 10 to 15 masks for the branch each weekend. Joey brings them to work on Mondays, and operations manager Jose Ruiz hands them out to grateful crews and managers.
As a landscaping company, Level Green Landscaping does a lot of community outreach that has to do with digging in the dirt, from helping school kids plant vegetables to teaching the community how to create rain gardens.
But our commitment to diversity means we also think outside the planter box.
First things first: yes, that’s a photo of Marcene with famous gymnast Gabby Douglas, two-time gold medalist at the 2012 Olympic Summer Games.
Champions hang out together.
When Marcene was 10, she was the gymnastics floor exercise champion for the whole state of Maryland.
She spent hours practicing in the gym four nights a week and all day on Saturdays.
“It gave me discipline and focus that I’ve used my whole life,” she says.
When Brian Outten interviewed for a job as shop manager at Level Green Landscaping, co-owner Bill Hardy told him he wouldn’t have to worry about Brian showing up late for work.
Brian served in the U.S. Army, where being punctual is a way of life.
That's just one of the traits Brian brings to his landscaping work, as a military veteran.
When Brian Outten joined the U.S. Army out of high school, he learned he’d be a 63 Bravo, a light wheel mechanic, changing oil and replacing tires on military vehicles.