Earth Day & PLANET Day of Service

Good morning!

The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) began a wonderful program last year called PLANET Day of Service. Landcare companies from all over the country perform service projects in their local communities on Earth Day.

Last year we planted a bed around a new park sign at Tahpah Neighborhood Park in Shakopee and now maintain the area. Here is a little video of what we did.

This year we are installing plant material and cleaning up the gardens around the Historic Stans House at the Scott County Historical Society here in Shakopee. We are very excited to work with Kathy Klehr, the Director, and help make the world a better place for Earth Day.

I’ll post pictures on here and you can follow us on Twitter as @quercusinc or follow all the PLANET Day of Service projects at #2010PDOS on Twitter.

Have a wonderful day!

Brad

Updated Winter Outlook

Good Monday morning to all! I hope you had a great weekend – or at least a great Sunday in Minnesota.

We drove to Iowa over the weekend to help my family with harvest but the wettest, coldest (by 4 degrees!) early October in recorded history didn’t allow for any combining to happen.

A couple of months ago I wrote about a couple of winter weather predictions. The National Weather Service has updated its winter outlook with a few tasty tidbits. They are still predicting a warmer winter. El Nino averages 3 degrees warmer than other years. However the precipitation is tough to predict from an El Nino with swings from 17″ in 1984-85 to 84″ in 1991-92. They have solidified their equal chances for above or below average precipitation this winter.

Our fall cleanups are also running far behind schedule this year due to the impressively wet fall. The leaves are finally falling, but yesterday and today have been the first days we have gotten out to work on cleanups and it looks like the rest of the week will be a bust as well.

Have a great week!

Brad

Shakopee Chamber Young Professionals Group

Good evening!

I am very proud to announce the Shakopee Chamber of Commerce successfully had its firstYoung Professionals Group Event tonight and it was a resounding success! We had 15 people attend to network and get to know others in the Shakopee business community. Thank you to everyone who helped get this group off the ground and to Dangerfields for hosting. I look forward to our next networking on November 19 at Stonebrooke!

Click here for a couple more pictures.

Have a great night!

Brad