Landscape Ontario is pleased to announce Jeff Hicks as LO’s Manager of Training, Education and Labour Development. A graduate of the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture and Fanshawe College’s landscape design program, Hicks as has a master’s degree in plant taxonomy and biodiversity from the University of Edinburgh.

Professionally, Hicks held numerous management positions at landscape firms in Ontario before spending the last eight years working for major landscape companies in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Hicks takes over for Sally Harvey, who left LO last month to take on the executive director role at Landscape Nova Scotia and Landscape Newfoundland and Labrador.