John Shepardson
All Seasons Landscape
Tree Care &
Home Improvement
180 Elm Street # 126
Pittsfield, MA 01201
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Strategy Officer --------------------------- In a country of cheaper by the million agriculture--I find I always pay MORE when I go to the farmers' market.
As we've been depleting, compacting and poisoning our soils for centuries--we have all too often been destroying our URBAN LANDSCAPES as well--which CAN and MUST be very much alive.
One of the worst things we do is mulch 1000's and 1000's of square miles with poisoned, dead WOOD chips.
Once this mulch has been killed--it will be dead forever--and NEVER compost into the topsoil. According to PhD African American
farmers--this stuff CANNOT be (easily or quickly) resurrected.
Any living landscape must adhere to the rules of ma nature--we must have as much high-grade
organic material composting into the topsoil as we have growing out of it--or the landscape is NOT alive--nor does it look alive--
and very soon WE won't be.
as do the rest of us--that any small piece of land--must have an infinitely higher value than any buildings we build.
Any man-managed landscape will never be as good as a natural landscape--and it is NEVER DONE--IT IS ALWAYS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
This might seem hard to believe (Mr. Bloomberg will tell you (Green Cities USA Programs))--but you know all these (landscaped) center islands
at shopping mall parking lots--you notice birds and squirrels, etc. won't go NEAR them. If you do things right--these critters will be ALL OVER THE PLACE. DON'T RUN THEM OVER.
COMMON GROUND:
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE / THE LANDLORD PROTECTION AGENCY---CAN THE RENT BE REDUCED BY 2/3 SO
TENANTS & NEIGHBORS CAN AFFORD TO DO BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION--AND NOT RUN THEM OVER ? Properly mulched--trees will grow even by a 10 factor in 10 years--other than that--they'll grow like a Burger King plastic house plant. The trick is--in diametric opposition to to inflation-chasing college text books--you gotta power wash (it takes an hour--never
let it go dry) the sand on drugs OFF the damned thing before you plant it--01 sep ... NOT 04 jul.
EMPLOYEES AT ALL THESE PLACES NEED TO BE GIVEN THE ASSIGNMENT OF MAINTAINING THESE LANDSCAPES--1/2 TO 1 FULL DAY PER WEEK. (if I managed one of them I would take
20% of my salary to it--and spend entire weekend live-ing up the landscape--in my muddy as hell suit and tie). MY COMPANY WOULD DO BEST TO WORK WITH ONE OF YOUR WORKERS--IN THIS RESURRECTION.
corporations need to specify exactly
what they want. All too often many
customers want more landscaping than they are willing to pay for--and
the landscapers--like many workers--
have to run around like chickens
with their heads cut off--keeping
up with inflation.
Personally--where I rent--I've found it is possible to turn a dump into an urban wildlife habitat. I will not charge YOU this kind of money--BUT--this practice 20' x 20' landscape in my back yard--cost me--in bits and pieces--a year of my life--I would like to sell something like this for $25,000. I am told--in this cheaper by the million competitive market--I couldn't get $2500 for materials / $0 for labor. I'm one of the better tree climbers on earth--and in the most recent decades--mainly trimming and pruning--this results in the
80/20
nitrogen/carbon
chopped leaves/chopped wood
ratio required for the best compostability. (electric utilities and local landlords used to pride themselves on their environmentalism).
I have a long list of references who will testify that I give my customers the work that they pay for.
The thing about keeping your landscape alive forever--YOU and YOUR workers must learn about--and WORK at taking care of your Landscapes--forever.
If you do not manage your own
landscape very carefully forevermore ---in this existing market--if we do not learn to value the land--a lot more than the buildings--we will lose it. (Green Cities q.v. Mr. Bloomberg)
999/1000--will have to do--in this market economy (or get divorced like my African American landlord--for doing the work of 2 men for 60 years) ....
They will rake away ALL of your LIVING, COMPOSTING MULCH--throw it in your dumpster--and replace it with poison, dead wood chips--all over again.
Many corporations need to become
involved in a National Green Cities
Program (many cities are already involved) --We all have a lot to learn from each other.
It is impossible that some of you
are not already serious gardeners--
landscapers at home.
As corporations become involved in every every kind of Green Cities Program--you will want to print out--forevermore--brochures for your customers--info about your every day involvement in taking care of your living land. They will see YOUR workers taking good care --at least one day per week (Better 2 hours/ day--Every worker gets a shift). The workers saying that the corporation knows what its doing--and the corporate officers saying that the workers know what they are doing--is a mistake that's been going on since 1970. Changing this blind leading the blind is the responsibility of every American.
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an Estimate for resurrecting your
landscape in Pittsfield, MA--
at East and 4th Streets.
(outside water needs to be available)
(poisoned wood chips will go into
your dumpster) (The biodynamic insects and worms will stay out of the building if the crushed stone is placed all the way around the building)
Labor: $700
Composted Topsoil: $400 (5 cu. yd.)
(Holiday Farm--Dicken Crane)
½ Composted 80/20 $500
un-composted 80/20 (free)
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$1600
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