While in Kauai, Hawaii, last February enjoying TCIA’s Winter Management Conference (WMC) 2022, I had the privilege of spending a great deal of time with Mike Earl. Mike, a CTSP and Certified Arborist, is owner of Old Growth Tree Service, LLC, an accredited, seven-year TCIA member company based in Eagle, Colorado, near Vail. Mike and […]
Alex Llamas and I met at Winter Management Conference (WMC) 2022 in Hawaii. His company, Ceibas Enterprises, Inc., dba SexyTrees.com, a nine-year TCIA member, is about 40 miles from me, and we’ve been able to support each other through thoughtful and productive conversations. Alex and his office manager recently came to tour our facility. Little […]
Usually I’m asked to speak or write about business efficiency in operations. This time we’re going to talk about my personal experiences in business during 2020, a year like no other. I’ve been in business for 33 years, and at the outset of 2020 I was in kind of a comfort zone. I had good […]
After 33 years in the tree care industry, I am still astounded by what incredible organisms trees are. I live in a land of giant redwoods and monstrous eucalyptus trees. There is not a day goes by that I don’t stop and reflect on these organic, living superstructures and how I found myself caring for […]
As children growing up living just 10 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, my friends and I all heard how the painting of the bridge would be a perpetual project. The painters began their work starting at the southern end and painted their way across a two-mile expanse to the northern end of the bridge. […]
