The Level Green Culture Blog

Behind the scenes and insider information for landscaping careers and green industry jobs.

Jesse Ware started mowing grass when he was 5, pushing the mower around his grandfather’s Delaware farm on a summer day. 

When a Level Green Landscaping team member welcomed a new baby, Ellen O’Brien made sure they got a tiny Level Green onesie, in pink or blue. 

Caitlin Cross loves doing something that fills a lot of people with fear: she shows up at businesses unannounced, with her business card, ready to chat. 

Her goal as a business developer: drum up some new business for Level Green Landscaping. 

“I love to cold call,” Caitlin says. “I show up and introduce myself. It disarms people. It’s harder for them to turn me away if I’m there in person.”

Marvin Balsoma has worked as a baker, chef, truck driver and furniture delivery guy. He’s worked in sales and in retail. It took a job in landscaping to make him realize he found his calling. 

Now, as a branch manager at Level Green Landscaping, he’s settled in for the long haul.

Two new regional manager positions at Level Green Landscaping reflect the company’s continued growth as they look ahead to an expanding footprint in the industry.

Joey Schneider and Kevin Doleman will focus on training and development for team members and increasing efficiency, says Paul Wisniewski, Division Manager at Level Green and the manager who hired for the new positions.

Have you ever bought something? Jordon Foss might have sold it to you.

He started his sales career at age 19 and has sold watches, solar panels, real estate, and pest control. He’s waited tables at restaurants and tended bar.

Now he’s a business development manager at Level Green Landscaping.

You’ll have to look elsewhere for that watch or new house.

But if you need your company’s landscaping to wow, Jordon can set you up.

Is your vacuum cleaner broken? Your car not running quite right? Need a new computer, built from scratch?

Rob Kubes is your go-to guy.

Rosvin Lara has a lot going on as a busy landscaping operations manager, from managing schedules to coordinating equipment and materials to making sure every job is done right.
But he prioritizes people.

One summer during college Adam Smith landed a job as a whitewater rafting guide in Colorado.

He had no experience in this adventurous sport, but drove straight through from Maryland to the mountain state and was ready to learn how to navigate the Arkansas River. Of course, there’d be training.

“I threw myself into class 3 and 4 rapids to see what it would be like if I flipped my boat,” he recalls.

Yikes.

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.