April 9th, 2024 By Jim Edward About 20 years ago, I started treating myself to a special “outdoors day” on or around my birthday each year. I would go somewhere in the Chesapeake Bay watershed for a hike and take photos all day. Over the years, more often than not, I would wind up going…
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March 19th 2024 By Jason Swope One of the most interesting aspects of landscape maintenance is that there is always something more to learn, and I think this is truer today than when I first started in the industry thirty years ago. Conservation landscaping and green stormwater infrastructure wasn’t something that I was…
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Landscaping crews gather outside a public library in SE DC for training on shrub pruning and inlet cleaning. February 20, 2024 When we started this blog in June of 2020 it was based on the simple idea that we are much stronger when we work together, and in 2024 that is still a principal…
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Many stormwater BMPs start with diverse planting palettes (left side) only to succumb after several years of shaginess to “maintenance by weed-whacker” (right side). PH: Dave Hirschman February 6, 2024 Maintenance, it seems, is always on our minds, and also frequently discussed in training here at CCLC, so we were excited to hear that…
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Blogger Kristen Koch December 20, 2023 Nine years ago, I was two years into my career when I was contacted by Connie Schmotzer, a fellow Penn State Extension employee who I had yet to meet. She informed me that she was on the Board of the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, that they were looking for…
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