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I have a fair amount of experience as a gardener and would never dream of hiring someone else to maintain my small property. That puts me at a knowledge disadvantage, as I've sometimes wondered whether it might not be an interesting idea to start a nonprofit gardening service designed to provide middle and high school students a first job, enable them to earn some cash locally after school and in the summer, and possibly develop some leadership skills if they liked the work and showed aptitude for becoming crew leaders or whatever.
Not only would kids benefit from the opportunity to earn income before college, they'd gain work experience and a reference. Resume development support could also be included as part of the program, if the model proved workable. (Workforce development grant support from corporate partners might well pay for that.)
One premise of the service would be that it would not rely on gas-powered blowers. They are unnecessary; rakes and electric blowers work fine, and anyway if a business's objective is to provide employment, then shifting costs to labor and away from fuel and equipment would be most consonant with the mission. Plus, this would give our service a qualitative advantage over noisy commercial services that pollute the air and drive the neighbors crazy.
So here's what I have no idea about: what's the going rate for the sort of lawn care and gardening services most people around here contract for?