Women in Landscaping From investment banker to… Landscape Contractor. After 19 years in the finance business, Anne Phillips dared to stop and take a long look at herself and her life.    More

Women in Landscaping Prior to the “sexual revolution” of the ’60s and ’70s, career choices for women were very limited and advancement nearly impossible.   More

Women in Landscaping Denise Ritchie arrived in the green industry by accident. For several years, she and her husband, Randy, worked as screenwriters. “I felt like I was on top of the world. I was doing what I loved, with someone I loved. I couldn’t have been happier,” she says.    More

Women in Landscaping JANIE MARSH’S PAST HAS NOT BEEN an easy one. When she was 12 years old, she began sneaking alcohol out of her parent’s liquor cabinet, and was smoking marijuana on a regular basis. By 15, she was using methamphetamines, and at 30, she was an intravenous drug user.    More

Women in Landscaping ALTHOUGH SHE’S ALWAYS RELISHED NATURE, IT WAS DURING Sherry Koontz’s five years of active military duty as part of the 45th Support Group that she first channeled that desire into a skill.    More

Women in Landscaping Although conventional wisdom sometimes pegs the green industry as a man’s domain, women across the country have proven that they can succeed    More

Women in Landscaping Deep passion for the complexities of landscapes is what has propelled Sabrena Schweyer to success. Today, Schweyer and her husband, Samuel Salsbury, run Akron, Ohio-based Salsbury- Schweyer, Inc.    More

Women in Landscaping The U.S. Department of Labor defines a non-traditional field as one in which less than 25% of those employed are women. Such is the case in the green industry.    More

Women in Landscaping There’s no template that these women follow; no set pattern that led them to a profession dominated by the opposite gender. Some of them run their own company, some work for others.    More

Women in Landscaping In an industry for the most part dominated by men, more women are expanding their horizons in the landscape industry.    More