Worker-Owner and co-CEO at A Yard & A Half Landscaping Cooperative, Inc.
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鈥淪o, you run a landscaping company, and you have a divinity degree?鈥�
Yes, and that circuitous path was the perfect preparation for a really interesting job! I am one of 10 worker-owners at A Yard & A Half Landscaping Cooperative in Waltham, MA. The former owner, Eileen Michaels, hired me as a summer maintenance worker in 2000, and I stayed on to lead the company's transition to a worker-owned cooperative upon her retirement in 2014.
I do some traditional CEO stuff 鈥� raising capital, budgeting, strategic planning 鈥� and some horticulturist/designer stuff 鈥� managing landscapes in riparian buffers, diagnosing plant problems, making beautiful and regenerative 4-season gardens. But unlike a...
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