The One Thing That Actually Grows a Hardscape Business

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Luke Parmeter and Dan Preston open this one with the question hardscapers keep asking: what actually takes a company to the next level? Then we sit down with Martha Hill — a Hardscape Mentor member since day one, who stayed up until midnight to sign up the night the group opened.

Martha walks through a career that started with a forestry major she picked because of some park rangers she met on a family vacation, and a switch to landscape architecture at Mississippi State chosen partly to dodge chemistry, calculus and physics. She co-oped with the Brickman Group in Chicago and Philadelphia, worked for a landscape architect in Jackson, then got talked into applying for a teaching job she'd never considered — and spent the next 31 years as faculty and department chair of Landscape Management Technology at Hinds Community College, building the program off ALCA's model curriculum and taking students to what's now the National Collegiate Landscape Competition every single year.

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