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About Us:
Mike McCleese started A Guy & His Dog Landscaping in 1996. Mike has a B.A. degree from Miami University. Before becoming a landscape designer, Mike worked as a social worker, Peace Corps volunteer (Central African Republic), labor organizer and homeless shelter director. Mike worked as a landscape laborer for several years before starting A Guy & His Dog Landscaping.
Mike studied Landscape Horticulture Technology at Cincinnati State & Technical Collage. He is currently a member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and the Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association. Aside from Mike, this year’s crew includes Gia Giammarinaro, Wade Whittaker, and Matt Rosselot.
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Standards
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Commitment to clients - A Guy & His Dog Landscaping commits to:
1. Provide detailed, individualized, professional landscape services to clients in Cincinnati and surrounding areas.
2. Embrace and practice design principles which reflect core elements for creating outdoor living spaces – unity, simplicity, scale, and function.
3. Provide the above services in a chemical-free environment. See more!
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| Gia graduated from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California in 1998 with a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies and Botany. Before joining A Guy & His Dog, Gia worked at the Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati. One of her many duties at the Center was to coordinate youth education programs in composting, summer gardening, and schoolyard gardening. Gia’s current interests include landscape design and organic gardening. Gia is a passionate composter, educator, and plantswoman! |
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| Wade Whittaker has worked in the horticulture field for nearly twenty years. He most recently worked at the Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum. Wade has an expertise in pruning and the identification of trees and their pests and diseases. |
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| Matt Rosselot is a full time student at the University of Cincinnati. Matt has several years experience as a mower, pruner, mulcher, and handyman! Matt is currently studying Psychology. Matt is a real outdoor enthusiast and his interests include backpacking, endurance sports, and canoeing. |
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| Last, but certainly not least are Gabe and Sonny, Mike’s Labrador retrievers. Gabe and Sonny have no real horticultural skills but as full business partners they do reserve the right to ride up front in the trucks and boss everyone around! |
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