Speaker - Dominick Mondi, Executive Director, New Jersey Nursery and Landscape Association

Speakers Bio - Prior to joining the staff of NJNLA, Dominick served on the Board of Directors of the organization, first while working for a landscape design-build contractor, Doerler Landscapes, and later while running his own landscape design firm, Mondi Designs. He has worked for the several landscape architect and landscape design-build firms, as well as serving as Program Director for the Rutgers University Office of Continuing Professional Education where he managed the units’ professional offerings for green industry professionals.  Dom has presented and lectured extensively for a variety of groups including Rutgers, NJNLA, Garden Club of New Jersey, Mercer County Community College, and the MD-DC-VA Landscape Contractors Association. Dominick serves on the advisory council for the Landscape Industry program at Rutgers University, the Host Committee for the Rutgers Gardens Gala, and is a past director of the New Jersey Green Industry Council. He is a graduate of the Landscape Architecture program at Rutgers University, is an award winning landscape designer, and is a Certified Nursery and Landscape Professional in New Jersey.

Course Description - Recently Neonicotinoids, which include some very commonly used landscape and nursery products, have been in the news because of some potential threats to pollinators in the landscape. Learn how this information is affecting the use of this products, how poorly crafted laws can have unintended consequences, what the future might hold, and how you can be engaged to make a difference!

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