This is where we will be announcing news, events, and awards.  "NEW" 2006 CLCA Beautification Award!!   Recent Beautification Award! In the Spring of 2004 Green and Growing Landscapes, Was hired by Brooks and Soni Kady on Mott Ave. in Seabright to Landscape and Eventually help design their new landscape for their Beautiful home on Mott. The job was quite a challenge with a steep driveway flowing to a Ripeperian corridor and a difficult city planning department, But eventually Green and Growing persevered and installed one of the best landscapes to date that include a 3000+/- sq ft Calstone interlocking Paver driveway , large sononma stone wall and a had to be "RIPERIAN CORRIDOR" planting. In the fall of 2004 the California Landscape Contractor Association handed Gregory and his crew a 1st Place award for the CLCA Beautician Medium Residential (25,000- 50,000 $) category.   New Equipment: "The Dingo" was purchased this year in the fall and has over 33 attachments, we plan to use /own the majority of those to create Beautiful Landscape all over Santa Cruz County in the years to come.   San Francisco Flower & Garden Show 2005 http://www.gardenshow.com/ Landscape Industry Show & CLCA Convention 2005 will bring exciting and new developments for the Landscape Industry Show and CLCA’s Annual Convention. “It’s Show Time! LA 2005” will be the theme of the 2005 LIS & CLCA Annual Convention. Not only will the show open the doors in its new home at the Los Angeles Convention Center, but CLCA’s Annual Convention will also be taking place! You can expect a full package of activities when you attend in 2005. The general membership meeting, candidates forum, installation, committee meetings and Trophy Awards will all be featured, along with the largest and best green industry trade show in the west! Moving to the convention center will allow current and new exhibitors more space. We will be adding approximately 40 percent more square footage. Our seminar program will also include CEU’s needed for many of the industry-related certifications and classes on hot topics. What now is called the Summer Family Extravaganza will also be getting a “face lift.” This event will be CLCA’s traveling meeting, and will be held anytime between April and October, depending on venue and location. News Article; published in "The Great Exchange"  June 2002 issue "A Look At Business" " For true beauty and artistic landscaping, call Green & Growing Landscapes Inc.  located in Santa Cruz, phone 465-0144. This well-respected firm specializes in all types of artistic landscaping and designs with nature. Using natural materials that will enhance your lawn, this reliable firm works with plants, sod, foliage, shrubbery, trees and  many other beautiful and natural additions. The pros at GREEN & GROWING LANDSCAPES INC. can design your home or office around a beautiful array of growing plants and decorative accessories. This well-liked company also specializes in sprinkler system design and maintenance. Don't put off having that system installed another year. You'll save money on your water bill and you'll never again move another hose! The writers of this 2002 Look At Business suggest that you contact the area's finest landscape contractor, GREEN & GROWING LANDSCAPES INC. for all your lawn beautifying needs! " AWARD  " Member of the Month" taken from "The Seascape"  A "Newsletter of the Central Coast Chapter of the California Landscape Contractors Association "  Jan, 2003 MEMBER OF THE MONTH  Meet Gregory Miller of Green and Growing Landscaping, Inc.  He's been a CLCA member for two years, but is a veteran in  the landscaping business. Greg began his career in 1990, spending seven years with Harmonic Landscaping of Santa Cruz as a maintenance crew leader. He worked for a year with Prime Landscapes Inc. as an installation foreman, then another year with Coastal Evergreen Landscapes Inc. as an irrigation technician.  Greg studied in the Horticulture program at Cabrillo and speaks highly of Jerry Allison's Landscape Construction class and Lisa McAndrews' Plant Identification class. He also enjoyed taking seminars at the 2001 Landscape Industry Show in  Long Beach. The last three years he has operated his own business in the Live Oak area of Santa Cruz. Greg's areas of specialty in his business are irrigation. woodwork, and stonework. He most recently completed a major project at the Kell residence in Rio Del Mar that included plant installation, dry set flagstone, irrigation upgrading and low voltage lighting. Green & Growing incorporated a year ago,  resulting in a deluge of paperwork that necessitated hiring a permanent business bookkeeper. Fortunately, Michelle Allen of AIM, a certified QuickBooks advisor, came to his rescue. Greg has been married to his wife, Martha, for three years. Their son, Nicholas, celebrated his first birthday earlier this month. Music and the outdoors occupy most of Greg's leisure time. He enjoys hiking, camping, mountain biking, surfing and snowboarding. He's played the drums for 23 years and is currently playing with a new band and working on recording a CD. Greg can be reached at (831) 465-0144"  or gregory@greenandgrowing.com                                                                                                  Acknowledgments: October 2003, "Live Oak Family Resource Center"