As Grunder Landscaping Co. celebrates its 40th year in business, Marty Grunder has reflected on all of the mistakes they’ve made along the way. You may have heard him joke before that if we were to hold an event to talk about all of his failures, it would be a 3-year course.
Getting your team to do what you want and need them to do starts with training them on how to do it. In this session, Marty Grunder will share how they train and motivate their team at Grunder Landscaping Co. to accomplish all jobs on time and under budget. This session is for owners who want to build a culture where everyone is working towards the same goals.
Walk through Grunder Landscaping Co. properties with us in this session: We'll show you what we look for when we do site visits at both a commercial and residential property and will highlight the additional projects we would recommend to each client. You'll leave this session with tips for finding enhancement-type projects to drum up more work without expanding your client base.
What are the options when seeds are scarce, cuttings won’t root, or disease risk makes propagation impossible? Biodiversity-focused plant tissue culture offers a critical solution for native plant propagation and restoration projects.
This session will break down tissue culture's potential in clear, grower-focused terms, explore a range of of conventional and unique project examples, and address the elephant in the native plant room: can cloned plants really yield greater biodiversity than seed alone? With the right approach, answer in some cases is YES!
Too much water and your profits drown. Too little and your landscapes die of thirst. This session slices through the confusion with real-world clarity—arming both fresh recruits and seasoned vets with the tools, terms, and timing they need to own their irrigation schedules.
Still billing by the hour? You’re not just leaving money on the table—you’re capping your growth. In this no-fluff session, we’ll unpack the proven benefits of flat-rate pricing (also known as upfront pricing) versus the outdated time-and-materials model. Through firsthand interviews with top-performing contractors from around the country who’ve made the switch—and never looked back—you’ll hear how flat rate has increased profitability, boosted customer trust, and created operational clarity.
In this session, you will learn how to identify certain species of wood decay fungi that are found on urban trees. Then, we will discuss the effects each species can have on a tree’s structural stability and health.
In this session, we will discuss Anthracnose, Beech Leaf Disease (BLD), & Oak Wilt, along with Phytophthora root rot & Armillaria root rot, which have been impacting the Christmas Tree Industry in Michigan.
Glyphosate, the original Roundup, is the most widely used agricultural chemical in the world. As a broad spectrum, nonselective, systemic herbicide, it has been used for weed control in many venues since its introduction in 1974: agricultural field crops, vegetable and fruit crops, aquatic weed control, nursery and landscape, and homeowner applications…among others.
Open to all Green Industry Professionals, both current and prospective participants. Join the Michigan Horticulture Industries Self-Insured Workers’ Compensation Fund Board of Trustees and the Administrator for the annual report on the financial stability of the MHISIWC Fund. Get your questions answered and learn more about the structure of your Fund and why it continues to be the best choice for controlling your long-term workers’ compensation costs.