Bay-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Training & Qualification Program

The Bay-Friendly Landscape Maintenance Training and Qualification is a well established and successful 7 week, 21 hour training for public and private sector landscape  maintenance professionals. Individuals who attend all classes and pass a final exam   become part of the pool of Bay-Friendly Qualified Landscape Maintenance Professionals.


The Training is based on the Bay-Friendly Landscape Guidelines: Sustainable Practices for the Landscape Professional, the program enhances the participant’s knowledge of the Bay-Friendly principles and the many maintenance practices that allow professional landscapers to offer profitable and environmentally sound landscaping services. It provides landscape maintenance professionals who work in the San Francisco Bay Area with:

1. Knowledge of Bay-Friendly Landscaping as an ecologically based, holistic approach to the management of urban landscapes.
2. An understanding of the value of landscaping within the context of the San Francisco Bay ecosystem.
3. Hand’s on experience with many cutting edge applications such as sheet mulching.
4. An understanding of the connection between nurturing soil health, waste management, water conservation and air & water quality.
5. A competitive advantage in the professional landscape maintenance marketplace.
6. Support for expanding their business to offer Bay-Friendly Landscape maintenance services and to communicate to their clients about Bay-Friendly landscaping.
7. Public recognition of their training and knowledge.

The program trains and qualifies individual professionals, not businesses. The qualification is valid for 2 years, after which time it is the responsibility of the individual to meet the requirements for becoming re-qualified by the Bay-Friendly Coalition.