GREENKEEPER
 Australian
Institute of Horticulture Inc [AIHI] |
Nursery
& Garden Industry Australia [NGIA] |
Australian
Sports Turf Managers Association |
YouTube:
Ryder Cup Greenkeepers, Gleneagles 2014
https://youtu.be/fpX81s6xJvA
YouTube:
A Day in the Life of a Greenkeeper
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You Know? Our love affair with a fresh-cut lawn is a relatively new development. For much of history, people remained preoccupied with avoiding starvation and plague. Foot traffic and grazing domestic animals kept the area cleared directly around a home, but the rest of the property was often used for gardening or left for wild plant life. In much of the world, this is still very much the case.  But in the Western world, a well-kept yard has become the rave. The invention of the manual reel mower in 1830 made it possible for regular people to emulate the elegant grounds they saw surrounding palaces and mansions. Today, lawns in the United States alone cover a total of 25 million acres of land. (Source: How Stuff Works) |
