NALP, the voice of 100,000 landscape and lawn care industry professionals, held their annual Day of Service on Earth Day to demonstrate landscape professionals' impact on their communities.
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The National Association of Landscape Professionals held its national day of service on Earth Day, April 22. This grassroots event allows companies to organize volunteer landscape and turf care projects in their own communities, in areas where the need is the greatest. This year, 60 volunteer landscape projects were conducted across the country.

Over the last seven years that Day of Service has been held, 1,000 projects have been completed by 16,000 volunteers at an estimated value of $4 million. However, the numbers don't tell the whole story. The impact is much more personal for the children who receive teaching gardens and new outdoor play spaces and for the communities that benefit from revitalized parks and monuments.