As a way to celebrate Earth Day and unite the green industry around giving back to the community, NALP’s annual Day of Service took place on April 22, with nearly 60 registered projects being done in 24 states across the U.S.
Started in 2009, a total of 1,000 projects have been completed by 16,000 volunteers for a value of $4 million.
Using the hashtag #PLANETDOS, companies tweeted pictures of crews and projects throughout the day as jobs were completed. Lawn & Landscape has compiled a few of the projects below.
AmericanHort – Ohio
In honor of Earth Day, AmericanHort maintained the landscape outside of the company’s office. Two honeybee hives were installed and plans were made to incorporate a pollinator garden into the landscape when the weather gets warmer. Staff also planted a new tri-colored beech tree and cleaned up litter around the neighborhood.
Bartlett Tree Experts – Maryland
As part of Day of Service, Bartlett passed out seedling trees to students, community groups and local reforestation efforts.
Bland Landscaping – North Carolina
Bland’s estate gardening team did a workday with the farmers at Burkett Farm. On Thursday, the floriculture and account managing team donated design and install of annuals for a project, and on Friday various team members donated two home landscapes for Habitat for Humanity of Wake County.
Grasshopper Lawns – Pennsylvania
The company donated time and services to a local soccer field, McDade Park, in Scranton, Pa. Grasshopper Lawns gave the field a proper spring start up, including aeration and seeding, fertilizing, weed control and liming.
Milosi Landscape – Tennessee
Milosi provided landscape services to the Hendersonville Public Library. The company refurbished the landscape, including plant bed maintenance, shrub and tree pruning, providing new mulch, weed control and plant health care. A sensory garden for the children’s area was also installed.
GrowinGreen - North Carolina GrowinGreen partnered with the Victory Junction Gang Camp to prep camp’s entrance for campers arriving this season. Victory Junction enriches the lives of children with serious illnesses by providing life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun and empowering, at no cost the children or their families.
The project involved:
• Pruning the dead limbs from trees and shrubs and reshaping them for the season.
• Weeding, cleaning out beds and pulling mulch back from trees where it was too deep.
• Spreading lots of fresh mulch.
• Cleaning up and blowing the area off for a tidy well-kept look.
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Nutri-Lawn – Nova Scotia
Nutri-Lawn’s staff cleaned up two sections of MacDonald Avenue as part of the Great Nova Scotia Pick-Me-Up. With the help of Customer Service Reps Kyle Nicholson, Ryan Crawford, Zach Conohan, Matt Maxwell, Andrew Bruce, Zach Egan & Matt Robinson, the team collected 4 yards of garbage and one full bag of recyclable items.
For more pictures of other projects done for Day of Service, head over to NALP’s
flickr page.
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