Growing Green Podcast

Reach Out Via Text! Christmas light installation can bring extra revenue into your landscape business, but getting your pricing, sales process, and installation workflow right matters. In this episode of the Growing Green Podcast, Jeremiah Jennings shares a practical crash course on getting started, from buying your first lighting kits to preparing equipment and marketing your services. He explains how Growing Green uses house photos, AI mockups, and LMN templates to send estimates with a goa...

Reach Out Via Text! What does it really take to build a $10 million landscape company—and what happens when you're generating millions in revenue but still struggling to make payroll? In this episode of the Growing Green Podcast, Jeremiah sits down with Sam Gembel, founder of Atlas Outdoor, to unpack his journey from starting a business in his driveway in 2011 to building a $10 million-plus company that was ultimately acquired by The Landscape Collective. Sam shares the mistakes that nearly b...

Reach Out Via Text! Q4 is here, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to mentally move on to 2027. In this episode of the Growing Green Podcast, Jeremiah breaks down how landscape business owners can use the final three months of the year to generate profitable revenue, improve cash flow, and fix the operational problems that have been holding their companies back. Jeremiah walks through reviewing your year-to-date P&L, cash flow, job costing, labor efficiency, and revenue per hour before decid...

Reach Out Via Text! In this episode of the Growing Green Podcast, Jeremiah sits down with David Perdue of Greenview Landscape Services to talk about what it actually takes to build a landscape company that can grow without relying on luck. David shares Greenview’s evolution from residential mowing and hardscaping into a company with more than 30 team members focused primarily on commercial maintenance, with a goal of becoming the “Chick-fil-A of landscape companies.” The conversation gets dee...

Reach Out Via Text! In this episode of the Growing Green Podcast, Jeremiah sits down with Zafir, Director of Product for battery development, and Katie, Senior Product Manager for Outdoor Power Equipment at Milwaukee Tool, live from Pipeline 2026. They go deep into the technology behind M18, M12, MX Fuel, and RedLithium Forge while breaking down what landscape contractors actually need to consider before transitioning a crew from gas to battery-powered equipment. Jeremiah also shares th...