{"id":5094,"date":"2023-12-26T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T17:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhlaonline.org\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:49:38","slug":"presidents-notes-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhlaonline.org\/presidents-notes-december-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Notes December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Andrew Pelkey<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>December 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I am writing this month\u2019s notes in early November, we\u2019re coming from a beautiful 70-degree weekend and into a 40-degree high the following day. The end of the green season is soon approaching.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that has always attracted me to our industry is the variety in seasonal change. Spring, summer, fall, and winter all provide different experiences. The beauty of the change is seemingly when you are getting tired of one season you are into the next!<\/p>\n<p>Your NHLA team is hard at work as we transition into the winter. We\u2019re committed to continuing to enhance our education offerings as we go into the \u201coff-season.\u201d A \u201ctwo-track\u201d offering is in place to offer educational opportunities to both our members who are owners and those who are field team members. This approach is in place to maximize our membership\u2019s learning opportunities on both fronts of our industry.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re excited to continue to add new events and topics to these offerings in 2024! As we work towards these new educational opportunities, we do want to hear from you, our members. Please reach out to one of us on the Board, in person or by email, to discuss your ideas, so that we can be sure to provide the right information to you and your team.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you all have a strong finish to your green season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Andrew Pelkey December 2023 As I am writing this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presidents-messages"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President&#039;s Notes December 2023 | New Hampshire Landscape Association (NHLA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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