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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Is Your Soil Sexy
IS YOUR SOIL SEXY? Soil has to be sexy to be alive, fertile, tillable, and provide the breeding ground for all kinds of life forms to reproduce. Minerals, metals, aggregates, organic materials, gases and water all combine to nourish the … Continue reading
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The Judges Are Coming!
For those of you interested in entering the Awards this season, I want to encourage you to follow your instincts! If you feel your company has done an outstanding job in maintenance or installation, and you are curious how you … Continue reading
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March Dinner Meeting- Integrated Water Management
Please join us for our March Dinner Meeting where our speaker will be Josiah Raison Cain from Design Ecology. Josiah will be discussing integrated water management with emphasis on greywater systems. Key points of the presentation include: Why are We … Continue reading
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Material Donations Needed for New Community Garden in East Petaluma
Design staff from O’Connell Landscape recently volunteered with Petaluma Bounty (a community based non-profit, focused on helping people grow their own food) and the garden host site, Living Word Lutheran Church to design the new Arroyo Community Garden. The Garden … Continue reading
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North Coast Golf Tournament
The North Coast Chapter is re-imagining it’s two annual golf tournaments. We are looking for feedback from members to see what the new tournaments should look like. Please take the our Online Survey and let us know what features we … Continue reading
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Native Grasses in the Landscape
Wow the benefits of the new CLCA North Coast Chapter website! I love the paper JOURNAL, and have been a loyal fan for close to 20 years. Yet finding a listing on a up coming ( now past) seminar in … Continue reading
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Associate Member Spotlight: Wheeler Zamaroni
Wheeler Zamaroni is a second generation family business located in the beautiful wine producing region of Sonoma County. What started out as a quarry operation many years ago has developed into one of the largest and most respected landscape and … Continue reading
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Should Rich People Pay More?
Blogger Jonathan Fields, in his blog Awake at the Wheel, has a great discussion and thought experiment on what is to fair to charge clients, in his post The Hypocrite Test: Should Rich People Pay More? Should a rich client … Continue reading
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Bay Friendly- Apologizing to the Bay!
After attending a recent Marin County Bay Friendly Landscaper training session, I was so thoroughly impressed with the curriculum of the Bay Friendly Program and the quality of the speakers for the training session. The Bay Friendly Landscape guidelines form … Continue reading
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February Dinner Meeting
Please join us for our February Dinner Meeting. This month’s speaker is Vicki Suiter of Suiter Financial Systems whose topic will be Beyond Breakeven- Making a Profit on Every Job you Do. Primary Learning Objective of Presentation -Discover exactly how … Continue reading
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