Minnesota Nursery & Landscape Association Convention
Now that the holidays are over and even though it is still the first part of January - we are in full gear for the upcoming season. The winter work consists of hiring new employees, doing the year-end books for 2007 and tax forms, advertising programs for this year, creating price lists, getting pricing from vendors from plants to landscaping supplies, and the list goes on. The next six weeks we’ll be busy with office work and then we turn the greenhouses on and plants start to arrive.
This week - we all head up to the Minneapolis Convention Center for the annual Minnesota Green Expo. Three days of seminars, networking with others in the industry, sharing ideas, and visiting the vendors in the Trade Show. The landscape division will attend seminars that share ideas and pointers on all sorts of landscape installations, the landscape designers get ideas from others and on different plants that are popular, the retail division gets promotion ideas, ideas on what works good and what doesn’t, and the production side of things is always educational as we see new equipment, new planting methods - ideas that work, and so on.
There are eight from Knecht’s heading up for this wonderful learning opportunity sponsored by the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association. Spring fever has definitely set in.
