The 2023 MALCP/NESTMA Golf Classic was held at Butter Brook Golf Club on October 5. It was a perfect day! Rain the night before that brought everything to life, including the Fall colors, followed by warmth and sunshine! MALCP hosted 144 players, our largest field ever! Thanks to all of our NESTMA friends, vendors, […]
Author Archives: Karen Connolly
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Jul
Jul
Over 40 lawn and landscape professionals attended the 2023 MALCP Summer Seminar. This eager crowd asked many questions to our guest speakers at the day long event, only to break for a picnic lunch in Tower Hill’s garden and water pool area. Our first speaker, Karen Reardon of RISE, addresses the crowd on […]
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Feb
Feb
The 2022 MALCP Annual Meeting was held on a foggy day at the Wayside Inn, Sudbury MA on December 7. A good crowd was present to hear Steve Boksanski and Warren Lent deliver “The Beacon Hill Report” chronicling election results and the value of participation through getting to know your State Representatives and State Senators […]
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Oct
Oct
Green Careers Event at Essex School, Fall 2022 Essex (full name) students were again taught the basics of Lawn Care, the benefits of Healthy Turf and what a career in Lawn Care has meant to all of the instructors. Those participating included Joe Szczechowicz, Gerry White, Luke Ford, Bill Dixon, Phyllis Hodge, and […]
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Oct
Oct
The Benefits of Healthy Turf Healthy turf provides many documented benefits to both people and the environment. Below is a handout listing many of these benefits. click here for a printable .pdf file
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Oct
Oct
The 2022 MALCP/NESTMA Golf Classic was held at Butter Brook Golf Club on October 6. It was a perfect day! Rain the night before that brought everything to life, including the Fall colors, followed by warmth and sunshine! MALCP hosted 144 players, our largest field ever! Thanks to all of our […]
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Sep
Sep
Below is an Article which appeared on the UMass Extension Turf Program, Amherst MA web-site: Land and Landscape Turf: A Key Resource Residential and commercial lawns and utility-type turf comprise a significant portion of the the landscape in Massachusetts and beyond. These lawns may be at private residences, at business establishments, in industrial developments, on […]
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Apr
Apr
Green Careers Event at Essex School, Fall 2021 Last year, in their, spare time, MALCP members Joe Szczechowicz, Steve Bukoff, Luke Ford, Jacob Arsenault, Bill Dixon, Austin Marsteller, and Gerry White developed a Green Careers curriculum for Lawn Care which included hands on training sessions for high school students. The first school participating […]
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Mar
Mar
Rhode Island bill looks to make all lawn care equipment zero emissions by 2027 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — A new bill at the Rhode Island State House is looking to make all lawn care equipment zero emissions by 2027, but it’s receiving pushback from those that use the equipment the most. “This is part […]
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Dec
Dec
MALCP’s Annual Meeting was again held in person at the Wayside Inn. It was great to be together for a delicious meal and informative conversations. Thanks to generous toy contributions, we matched our yearly goal of filling 2 large boxes for Toys for Tots. Steve Boksanski spoke with us about how the pandemic has affected […]