At Lawn & Landscape magazine, we wanted to be the first to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. We appreciate the opportunity to cover this industry and we're certainly thankful you read our publication!
To match the spirit of the season, we wanted to shout out some of the charitable giving we saw across the industry in 2024. The green industry left lots of people feeling thankful this year, and we're highlighting just a few of those moments below.
- Hurricane Helene relief efforts: Nearly 200 of you joined Loving and other industry companies at a charity event in Charlotte, raising $300,000 for Hurricane Helene relief efforts. Of course, you had some fun, too.
- The Lawnmower Project: It’s an origin story you hear a lot in the green industry — a young high schooler starts mowing lawns in their hometown for some extra money and then one day, they’re running larger, sometimes multi-million dollar, businesses. That’s the path that Gary Szymczak hopes his young mentees take by participating in The Lawnmower Project— a nonprofit Szymczak founded to give lawn mowers to underprivileged youth in the Indianapolis area and teach them how to run their own landscaping business.
- The Grassroots Giving food drive: This year, Weed Man launched its inaugural Grassroots Giving food drive. From September 3 to October 18, Weed Man franchisees across North America partnered with their local food banks to collect non-perishable food and household items for donation.
- Renewal & Remembrance: 400 volunteers gathered to refresh the Arlington National Cemetery and the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial this summer.
- Project EverGreen's initiatives: Between a Daytona Beach baseball field and a Staten Island community space, Project EverGreen kept quite busy in 2024.
