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Spring Plant Sale and Open House
Join us for our Semi-Annual Spring Plant Sale and Open House. The event will be held Friday afternoon, March 23 from 2pm-6pm and Saturday morning, March 24 from 9am- 1pm.
Good Earth Family of Companies
7922 Armour Street
San Diego, CA 92111
United Green Spring 2012 Symposium
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be the featured speaker at the United Green Spring 2012 Symposium and Town Hall style workshop, March 3 and 4, 2012 at San Diego State University.
The focus of the workshop will be on three areas of sustainability in the San Diego/Tijuana region; agriculture, water and energy.
For more information and tickets visit: www.unitedgreen.org
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| Employee Spotlight |
 This month we are pleased to feature Kirk Neuroth, one of our talented plant technicians. After receiving his degree in Plant and Soil Sciences, Kirk has worked in many areas of plantscaping, design and production. He has been schooled in the specialty art of growing and maintaining Fruit Trees.
In his spare time, Kirk volunteers at the Cuyamaca College Botanical Garden. To see more about this project visit www.thegarden.org. He also enjoys his own home garden where he is currently harvesting onions, artichokes and lettuce.
Make sure you attend our Spring Plant Sale and Open House on Saturday, March 24 to attend one of Kirk's workshops. His knowledge of plants and all things green will help you and your garden be ready to welcome Spring!
Kirk provides wonderful service to our customers by making sure their green walls and interior and exterior plants are happy and hearty! He is looking forward to working on more wall projects and rooftop gardens.
Thanks Kirk, for all your hard work and dedication!
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Plant Joke of the Month
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Question: What kind of socks does a gardener wear?
Answer: Garden Hose!
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Quote of the Month
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"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew."
-Marshall McLuhan, 1964
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Lunch & Learn
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If you work with an Architectural or Landscape architectural firm, Good Earth Plants and GreenScaped Buildings owner Jim Mumford, GRP is available for Lunch & Learn programs.
Jim will provide a half-hour program that highlights new products and installation, and maintenance info on our Green Walls and Green Roof projects. And he'll even bring in lunch for your group to enjoy during the presentation.
Please contact the office at (858) 576-9300 for more information and to book your Lunch & Learn.
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| Dear Friends of the Mulch, |
 As we charge into the new year, business continues to grow and blossom. I'm very proud of our teams accomplishments last year, and particularly pleased that we hit all of our sales goals. It's been a few years since we could be aggressive in our projections and actually achieve our objectives. Now I just wish we kept more at the end of the day... and paid less taxes!
It looks like green roofs and living walls are here to stay based upon the number of inquiries, bids, projects and examples in southern California that have crossed my desk. Just about every University and College have a green roof or one planned, the new barracks at Camp Pendleton, the design for the new convention center, Hospitals, new housing and shopping centers. Living Walls are going in and being planned for restaurants and homes as well as corporate lobbies... finally the development and design communities are recognizing the myriad of benefits from authentically green buildings.
Among other achievements last year: our work (and that of Landscape Architect Greg Nowell) at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law was recognized by an Orchid award, we installed a large green wall at the new SDG&E Energy Innovation Center, gorgeous green walls in Qualcomm headquarters lobby, a green wall at the Bressi Ranch ActivCare Senior Center, edible green walls at Terra Restaurant in La Mesa and Mario Batali's Pizzeria Mozza in Newport Beach, numerous green walls in residences and started the green roof portion of the Fallen Star art installation at UCSD. I spoke at numerous events and even travelled as far as Columbus Ohio to speak on living walls at the OFA Conference, I had one of my talks certified to give Continuing Education Units (CEU's) and we won numerous awards for our work. We have a new look for our websites and had our first ever bowling party for employees (a ton of fun!) and we even bought a new manly-man contractors truck.
One of my favorite accolades of the year was being named one of San Diego's "Top Influentials in 2011" by the San Diego Daily Transcript. You know I couldn't have accomplished this without my team.
Our Open House this March will be a little different... Friday afternoon the 23rd we will be open to viewing the green roof and all of our living wall systems - along with our plant sale. Saturday morning we will be charging $10 to attend a series of 20 minute workshops: "How to Plant Your Own Green Wall", "Green Pest Control," and "Growing Vegetables Hydroponically." If you buy $25 of plants, the workshops are free.
Much has changed since last fall, come out and see what's growing!
Best regards,
Jim Mumford
Owner, The Good Earth Family of Companies
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GreenScaped Buildings Helps Complete "Fallen Star"
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The exciting addition to UCSD's Stuart Art Collection is finally completed! Artist Do Ho Suh has created a small version of a New England-style cottage and placed it on what looks to be a precarious location. But all is safe and secure thanks to the many engineers and project help (including Greenscaped Buildings!) that made the artists' vision a reality.
Greenscaped Buildings proudly partnered with UCSD and Mr. Suh to provide plants and greenery for the Martha's Vineyard-style cottage. Greenscaped Buildings is planting east-coast type plants including Virginia Creeper, Wisteria and even a decorative Plum Tree. So many individuals have helped in the effort to bring the artists' work to life....imagine the logistics of such a project with big cranes, multiple contractors, tight spaces, living greenery, tons of soil and cement....all 7 stories up! You get the idea!!
Small groups will be able to gather at the house and garden area. For more information please go to http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu
A huge congratulations to our Project Manager, Steve Codraro, on a complicated and demanding job well done.
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Spring Plant Sale and Open House
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We are pleased to invite you to our Semi-Annual Spring Plant Sale and Open House. This Spring, our event will be on Friday afternoon, March 23 from 2pm-6pm and Saturday morning, March 24 from 9am-1pm.
We will have staff available to show you our new green wall exhibits and systems as well as a couple of workshops on Saturday morning. Learn How To Plant Your Own Green Wall, Green Pest Control, and Growing Vegetables Hydroponically from the Good Earth Plants experts.
Deep discounts will be available to those who buy our lovely plants in volume. Admission to the workshops is $10 for all three but is free if you purchase $25.00 in plants. Seating is limited so sign up right away to save your seat!
For those who RSVP, a special gift awaits you when you arrive! To
RSVP email Alexa and indicate which day you will attend.
Parking is limited. Please carpool if you can.
Good Earth Plants and Greenscaped Buildings is located in Kearny Mesa at 7922 Armour Street, San Diego, CA 92111
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Holiday Tree Glee
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Horton Plaza
Christmas Tree |
For the 8th year, the staff at Good Earth Plants and GreenScaped Buildings proudly provided décor for the Horton Plaza 2011 Holiday on Ice tree. Decorated with hundreds of ornaments and thousands of lights, our staff braved wind and weather to make sure the 20 foot tall tree stood proudly. The ice skating rink and festive holiday arena were created to benefit the Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.
We are already planning for the 2012 tree and looking forward to helping the kids at Rady Children's Hospital.
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