Integrated Pest Management/Turf Maintenance Seminars
TM017: NEW - Turf Disease/Weed/Insect Id and Management
Ideal for new owners or staff of lawn care, grounds maintenance firms, parks departments or golf courses. This half day seminar will benefit new employees and is particularly suited for those with some Turf experience.
Topics covered include:
- Common turf and plant pest id (weeds/insects/diseases)
- Favourable conditions for pests
- Soil water management
- How to reduce pests/pest thresholds
- How to deal with pests
- Being a good steward
Note Recommend but not required participants attend the AM seminar TM016
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $143.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Michelle Kent, ES Landscaping
Date: Monday February 3, 2025 1:00 am - 3:30 pm
Ideal for new owners or staff of lawn care, grounds maintenance firms, parks departments or golf courses. This half day seminar will benefit new employees and is particularly suited for those with some Turf experience.
Topics covered include:
- Common turf and plant pest id (weeds/insects/diseases)
- Favourable conditions for pests
- Soil water management
- How to reduce pests/pest thresholds
- How to deal with pests
- Being a good steward
Note Recommend but not required participants attend the AM seminar TM016
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $143.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Michelle Kent, ES Landscaping
Date: Monday February 3, 2025 1:00 am - 3:30 pm
TM016: NEW - Turf Basics for a Healthy Lawn
A great lawn makes a great landscape. But where do you start? What are the key components? Benefiting new employees and those with basic turf management experience, this seminar will discuss:
- How to grow a healthy lawn
- How to overseed/Importance of overseeding
- Proper fertility
- Proper watering
- How to water in seed and sod and plant material (plant material requirements)
- How to promote plant health
Lunch not included
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $143.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Michelle Kent, ES Landscaping
Date: Monday February 3, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
A great lawn makes a great landscape. But where do you start? What are the key components? Benefiting new employees and those with basic turf management experience, this seminar will discuss:
- How to grow a healthy lawn
- How to overseed/Importance of overseeding
- Proper fertility
- Proper watering
- How to water in seed and sod and plant material (plant material requirements)
- How to promote plant health
Lunch not included
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $143.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Michelle Kent, ES Landscaping
Date: Monday February 3, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
TM015: IPM For Woody Plants
Review of Pest biology to understand how to manage in the landscape along with a review of IPM and Plant Health Care in the landscape. We will discuss common and uncommon pests, native and introduced, living and non-living causal agents in woody plants. How to identify and manage pests properly.
Bring your thinking cap as we hope you will become a plant detective, solving Ontario’s Plant Health Problems
Note:IPM Accreditation continuing education credits (CEC) available
Note: ISA continuing education units (CEU's) available.
LO member price: $160.00
Non-member price: $285.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Becky Moule, Arbortech Professional Tree Care Inc
Date: Friday February 14, 2025 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Review of Pest biology to understand how to manage in the landscape along with a review of IPM and Plant Health Care in the landscape. We will discuss common and uncommon pests, native and introduced, living and non-living causal agents in woody plants. How to identify and manage pests properly.
Bring your thinking cap as we hope you will become a plant detective, solving Ontario’s Plant Health Problems
Note:IPM Accreditation continuing education credits (CEC) available
Note: ISA continuing education units (CEU's) available.
LO member price: $160.00
Non-member price: $285.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Becky Moule, Arbortech Professional Tree Care Inc
Date: Friday February 14, 2025 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
LG048: NEW - Invasive Species Management Options
This seminar will discuss the difference between woody and herbaceous species, management options using mechanical methods or herbicides, personal protective equipment for removing invasive species and selecting the right methods/tools to prevent further spread into the landscape.
LO member price: $160.00
Non-member price: $285.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Jeff Dickie, Conservation Halton
Date: Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
This seminar will discuss the difference between woody and herbaceous species, management options using mechanical methods or herbicides, personal protective equipment for removing invasive species and selecting the right methods/tools to prevent further spread into the landscape.
LO member price: $160.00
Non-member price: $285.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Jeff Dickie, Conservation Halton
Date: Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
LG044: Earthworms in Canada – the Silent Invasion
John has studied earthworms on every continent except Antarctica for over 57 years, his projects have been published in over 550 books and journal articles. His presentation will cover the invasion of European and more recently Asian earthworms in Ontario and Canada. Including habitat requirements, barriers to migration, and time of first occurrence.
Following the presentation, specimens of European and Asian earthworms will be available for examination.
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $146.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: John Reynolds, Oligochaetology Laboratory
Date: Friday February 28, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
John has studied earthworms on every continent except Antarctica for over 57 years, his projects have been published in over 550 books and journal articles. His presentation will cover the invasion of European and more recently Asian earthworms in Ontario and Canada. Including habitat requirements, barriers to migration, and time of first occurrence.
Following the presentation, specimens of European and Asian earthworms will be available for examination.
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $146.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: John Reynolds, Oligochaetology Laboratory
Date: Friday February 28, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
LBM147: NEW - Employment Law 101 - What Every Employer Should Know..and Do
Navigating employment law can be daunting. To employers (and even employment lawyers) the law appears to shift daily, whether at the hands of governments or courts and tribunals. Human rights, health and safety, privacy, employment standards, accessibility, and so much more.
This presentation, led by Jeremy Ambraska of Sherrard Kuzz LLP, Employment & Labour Lawyers, highlights key employment law basics every employer should know to minimize risk and maximize opportunity.
Lunch not included
LO member price: $37.00
Non-member price: $66.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Jeremy Ambraska of Sherrard Kuzz LLP, Employment & Labour Lawyers
Date: Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Navigating employment law can be daunting. To employers (and even employment lawyers) the law appears to shift daily, whether at the hands of governments or courts and tribunals. Human rights, health and safety, privacy, employment standards, accessibility, and so much more.
This presentation, led by Jeremy Ambraska of Sherrard Kuzz LLP, Employment & Labour Lawyers, highlights key employment law basics every employer should know to minimize risk and maximize opportunity.
Lunch not included
LO member price: $37.00
Non-member price: $66.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Jeremy Ambraska of Sherrard Kuzz LLP, Employment & Labour Lawyers
Date: Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:30 am - 11:00 am
LG049: NEW - Designing Low Carbon Landscapes
Reducing the carbon footprint of projects is becoming more important in the landscape industry. As a green industry, it is vital that we incorporate practices that reduce environmental impacts: recycling and reusing materials on site, managing soils, reducing cut and fill and planting to increase carbon sequestration.
In this seminar, specific strategies will be discussed that will enable you to design landscapes compliant with the latest environmental standards.
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $146.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Adele Pierre, Adele Pierre Landscape Architect
Date: Monday March 10, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Reducing the carbon footprint of projects is becoming more important in the landscape industry. As a green industry, it is vital that we incorporate practices that reduce environmental impacts: recycling and reusing materials on site, managing soils, reducing cut and fill and planting to increase carbon sequestration.
In this seminar, specific strategies will be discussed that will enable you to design landscapes compliant with the latest environmental standards.
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $146.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Adele Pierre, Adele Pierre Landscape Architect
Date: Monday March 10, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
LG051: NEW - Picking the Right Fertilizer
An introduction to fertilizers, reviewing various options including both synthetic and organic. Learn how to select the right fertilizer for an application and how to use soil test results. Understand how the macro-nutrients travel through soil and how this affects proper application.
Plant requirements will also be discussed along with any need of plant specific fertilizer as well as identification of deficiencies based on leaf characteristics. Application rates, and timing for different seasons is also important.
Lunch not included
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $143.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Robert Pavlis, Aspen Grove Gardens
Date: Thursday March 13, 2025 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
An introduction to fertilizers, reviewing various options including both synthetic and organic. Learn how to select the right fertilizer for an application and how to use soil test results. Understand how the macro-nutrients travel through soil and how this affects proper application.
Plant requirements will also be discussed along with any need of plant specific fertilizer as well as identification of deficiencies based on leaf characteristics. Application rates, and timing for different seasons is also important.
Lunch not included
LO member price: $80.00
Non-member price: $143.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Robert Pavlis, Aspen Grove Gardens
Date: Thursday March 13, 2025 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
LA012: Fungamentals 1: The Basics of Tree and Fungi Interactions
In the urban environment trees and fungi are inseparable. The role fungi play in keeping trees alive, and on the other hand shortening their life, is not only critical to arborists and clients, but also those of us who maintain and build landscapes around these trees.
As professionals, we can bring this world to life for our clients, protect their assets from needless damage during construction, and bring immense value through deeper understanding.
This seminar will cover ID skills for decay fungi, introduce ecology of mycorrhizal fungi, fungal pathogens and how cankers form, techniques for preventing the effects of harmful fungi during and after construction, as well as management techniques for both young and old trees that play host to cankers and other common fungi.
Participants will leave with confidence in field ID, explaining fungal pathology to clients, and understanding the cost management and prevention of issues.
Note: IPM Accreditation continuing education credits (CEC) 5.67
LO member price: $160.00
Non-member price: $285.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Kyle McLauglin, Ironwood Arboricultural Solutions Inc
Date: Friday March 14, 2025 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
In the urban environment trees and fungi are inseparable. The role fungi play in keeping trees alive, and on the other hand shortening their life, is not only critical to arborists and clients, but also those of us who maintain and build landscapes around these trees.
As professionals, we can bring this world to life for our clients, protect their assets from needless damage during construction, and bring immense value through deeper understanding.
This seminar will cover ID skills for decay fungi, introduce ecology of mycorrhizal fungi, fungal pathogens and how cankers form, techniques for preventing the effects of harmful fungi during and after construction, as well as management techniques for both young and old trees that play host to cankers and other common fungi.
Participants will leave with confidence in field ID, explaining fungal pathology to clients, and understanding the cost management and prevention of issues.
Note: IPM Accreditation continuing education credits (CEC) 5.67
LO member price: $160.00
Non-member price: $285.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Kyle McLauglin, Ironwood Arboricultural Solutions Inc
Date: Friday March 14, 2025 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
LS026: Emergency 1st Aid, CPR C & AED Certification
This one-day seminar designed to give participants a general overview of first aid. Participants will learn how to think and react in an emergency until medical help arrives. This seminar is suitable for those working as first responders in their workplace.
Topics covered include:
*Preventing of disease transmission
*Airway and breathing emergencies
*CPR for adults and children
*Cardiovascular emergencies/strokes
*Spinal precaution
*Managing bleeds
*Shock
*Fainting and more
*AED (Automated External Defibrillator) training
First Aid is valid for three years, AED Certification one year. Annual CPR certification is recommended.
Prerequisite Only participants who have completed their 2 day Standard First Aid,CPR C & AED Certification training are eligible to attend.
Note: ISA continuing education units (CEU's) available.
LO member price: $120.00
Non-member price: $236.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Representative from, SAJE Vital Signs
Date: Friday March 28, 2025 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
This one-day seminar designed to give participants a general overview of first aid. Participants will learn how to think and react in an emergency until medical help arrives. This seminar is suitable for those working as first responders in their workplace.
Topics covered include:
*Preventing of disease transmission
*Airway and breathing emergencies
*CPR for adults and children
*Cardiovascular emergencies/strokes
*Spinal precaution
*Managing bleeds
*Shock
*Fainting and more
*AED (Automated External Defibrillator) training
First Aid is valid for three years, AED Certification one year. Annual CPR certification is recommended.
Prerequisite Only participants who have completed their 2 day Standard First Aid,CPR C & AED Certification training are eligible to attend.
Note: ISA continuing education units (CEU's) available.
LO member price: $120.00
Non-member price: $236.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Representative from, SAJE Vital Signs
Date: Friday March 28, 2025 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
LS007: Standard First Aid with CPR Level C and AED Certification
This two-day practical first aid course meets government requirements and prepares participants to administer first aid for common landscape injuries. Every landscape crew must have one person with first aid training to assist injured workers. Participants should bring a blanket.
Topics covered included;
* Musculoskeletal Injuries
* Spinal precautions
* Soft tissue injuries (bruises, burns, and frostbite, etc)
* Heat and cold temperature emergencies
* Poisons.
* One rescuer adult/child/baby CPR
* Two rescuer adult/child CPR
* Adult/child/baby choking
* Barrier devices/pocket masks
* AED (Automated External Defibrillator) training
Note: ISA continuing education units (CEU's) available.
LO member price: $185.00
Non-member price: $315.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Representative from, SAJE Vital Signs
Dates: Monday March 31, 2025 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Tuesday April 1, 2025 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Seminars main menuThis two-day practical first aid course meets government requirements and prepares participants to administer first aid for common landscape injuries. Every landscape crew must have one person with first aid training to assist injured workers. Participants should bring a blanket.
Topics covered included;
* Musculoskeletal Injuries
* Spinal precautions
* Soft tissue injuries (bruises, burns, and frostbite, etc)
* Heat and cold temperature emergencies
* Poisons.
* One rescuer adult/child/baby CPR
* Two rescuer adult/child CPR
* Adult/child/baby choking
* Barrier devices/pocket masks
* AED (Automated External Defibrillator) training
Note: ISA continuing education units (CEU's) available.
LO member price: $185.00
Non-member price: $315.00
Maximum participants: 10
Location: Landscape Ontario, 7856 5th Line S., Milton
Instructor: Representative from, SAJE Vital Signs
Dates: Monday March 31, 2025 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Tuesday April 1, 2025 8:30 am - 4:30 pm