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Does anyone have any good suggestions for getting cover for landscape foreman holiday?

I am trying standard routes such as AndersPlus but we're in a bit of a unique situation in that our foremen are also trainers of apprentices, so they ha

Leading natural and artificial sportsground contractors White Horse Contractors association with Barclays Premier League side Chelsea FC has seen renovation works undertaken at the club’s Cobham training ground.

Building on the relationship that the c

 Liverpool Landscaping Careers

Landscaping as a career?

We have been established for over 30 years and in the last 5 years have seen so many  businesses pop up out of no where. Many of these landscaping companies have been set up by past employees o

Sherriff Amenity, one of the leading turf care and sports equipment suppliers in the UK, is pleased to announce a 100% pass rate for greenkeepers and other turf professionals for the BASIS Foundation Award in Amenity and Horticulture, which raises th

Training body, Lantra, is putting together an online register of people and businesses involved in tree-work, that is backed by the industry itself.

Called the Register of Tree Work Operatives (R2), it promises to help individuals and businesses to

The Lantra Awards Level 2 Award in The Safe Use of Aluminium Phosphide for Vertebrate Pest Control (QCF) Qualification has been developed in conjunction with industry and RAMPS (UK) and on successful completion will provide you with a licence to prac

BALI Chief Wayne Grills will be speaking to delegates at Q Lawns’ Sustainable Landscaping event about the shortage of skills in horticulture and landscaping.

Within the Industry, we all know how difficult it can be to recruit staff with the right skil

Reaseheath has a national reputation for producing high quality horticulture professionals that work across all sectors of the industry. Our garden courses offer professional training for school leavers and career changers, as well as those already

Safe Use of Pesticides (PA1) and Hand Held Applicator (PA6) courses run throughout the year, but December through to April are our busiest months for training when the weather is at it's worst and in preparation for the growing season. The next cours

Just 3 places remain on our new course running in the South East for the first time. The course and accreditation is aimed at those who offer a service of rodent pest management to farming enterprises and other businesses in rural areas. Those who at

The Garden Design Academy began by providing training to garden designers and by assisting home gardeners to design their own gardens. I started offering these in the UK from our offices in Hertfordshire and when we moved to France they took on a who

Five hundred women working in land-based industries across the UK will continue to benefit from Lantra’s Women and Work 2011-12 Funding Project,  as it has been extended for a fifth year.

Women and Work has already helped 1212 businesses and 3,250 wo

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