I often get asked by our ACE Peer Group Members "What should I as the owner actually be doing in a day?" It's a good question. There's three big pieces of experience that I like to share: 1.Play to Your Strengths Each owner has their own strengths and weaknesses, and ideally they should be spending most of their time.

The weather's warming up, the equipment's rolling out, and our teams are back to doing our bread-and-butter work (or close to it if you're far North!).

We talk a lot about systems at Grunder Landscaping Co., and as we start the season spring cleanups are usually the first system we must ensure runs well. As our team has grown, it's become even more important that we have a great system for these cleanups because they set the properties we maintain up well for the.

My favorite day of the year every year is always that first warm, sunny day after winter. When I was in college at Miami University, it meant grabbing a beer on a patio with friends and putting off school work to enjoy the sunshine. Now nearly 10 years (yikes) after graduating, it means a walk at lunch time or.

When I first started Grunder Landscaping Co. (GLC) as a teenager, I was lucky that a few successful business people in my local community took my under their wing and mentored me. They taught me good etiquette for networking lunches, let me learn new skills working on their properties, and instilled in me some of the.

If you're like most of the landscape business owners I talk to right now, you've got a lot on your mind heading into spring. Across our 19 ACE Peer Groups and 250+ members, three themes keep coming up over and over and I think they're worth talking about: leadership, financial knowledge, and whether you're actually.

Think about the last time you needed to hire a contractor for something at your house. You either asked around or you Googled it. And when you looked at the online search results, which one did you click? Probably the first or second one, because most of us don't scroll much further than that.

I always struggle to put into words exactly what our GROW! event is like to people who weren't there with us. But a friend of mine couldn't join us last-minute, and the text he sent me summed it up well. He said "Just being around 1,000 other motivated landscapers does something to you no matter who you are! I've been.

The countdown is officially on! Our team is in Dallas this weekend, putting the final touches on GROW! 2026. We're setting up breakout rooms, coordinating with speakers, and making sure every detail is ready before we welcome landscape professionals from across the country on Monday afternoon.

The Grow Group team is finishing up the final preparations for GROW! 2026 in Dallas, TX on February 10-12, 2026. I'm excited: our tour hosts, Complete Landsculpture, have done so much preparation and careful consideration as they've created the content for our tour of their facility, our breakout sessions are ready to.