Andy Wessel is in the business of changing minds. With Wild Harmony Landscapes as his vessel, he is hoping to bridge the gap between landscaping and environmental responsibility.
Wessel was landscaping on and off for decades before starting his own company. But working for traditional landscaping businesses was what finally brought Wild Harmony Landscapes to fruition about a year ago.
“I just kind of saw how much fertilizer was getting put down, how much water was getting used, and how wasteful and destructive the conventional landscaping industry and that conventional mindset can be to the earth,” Wessel said. “[Chemicals] would just run off and run down into the drain or right down into the Chickahominy River and that just kind of made me sad, and I decided I didn’t really want to be a part of that anymore.”
Inspired by the convictions of renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, Wessel named his company Wild Harmony Landscapes to promote the idea that conservation requires engagement with our ecosystems, rather than just protection of them. “Conservation is a state of harmony between people and land,” Wessel shared as one of his favorite Leopold quotes…