Description of the Business
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Description of the Business |
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Green Art was started in 1995 by Thomas Berger as a business for landscape design and construction. Since then, it has diversified into a business that now also includes a nursery as well as stone sculpting. This is going to change soon as we will emphasize the nursery and stone business, as well as the design activities. Construction will then be limited to the summer and fall, and therefore the number of jobs we can do will also be diminished.
Green Art was started as a sole proprietorship, transformed to an LLC and is now incorporated as "Green Art, Inc". It is a small business with 3 to 4 seasonal employees.
| In 1999 a property was purchased to establish a nursery and to provide space for trucks, equipment and materials. A small greenhouse was set up in 2000 and with that the nursery activity began. The property was in very bad shape and is continually improved. It now has one entrance from Route 1 Bypass and a secondary entrance from Old Post Road, and many parts of the property are starting to shape up nicely with shrub borders and perennial gardens. |
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In 2002 we were setting up a beautiful barn like building with a well equipped workshop for stone sculpting, a sales room for the nursery, and a spacious design office and storage room upstairs.
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| In the winter 2005/2006 We enlarged our business by purchasing a neighbor property - a beautiful piece of woodland with old oak and beech trees and some ledge outcroppings. It is 2.2 acres large. Our nursery now has almost 4 acres of land (ca. 1.5 ha). That should be enough space to organize our plants well and to reserve some areas for display gardens. We also plan to set up sculptures in the woodland. |
entrance into the newly added woodland |
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A new workshop is being added in 2006. The old stone workshop is being remodeled
into a bathroom and a utility room. The new workshop will be separated from the
main building through a very tight door in order to stop dust from getting into
the sales room. The flat roof is temporary. Rooms will eventually be build on top of it, complementing the roof line of the existing building. |
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