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And then you get into this business of, wait a second, if the whole mine has been hollowed out and now there's a breach, does that mean Lake Erie is going to be sucked into the mine? Here with more...

is Joe Salemi, Executive Director of Landscape Ontario.

Good morning.

Good morning, John.

Really appreciate it.

Good to have you.

That's Joe Salemi, executive director of Landscape Ontario.

And Joe, Christiana, when we were planning on this story, I was having vague memories, which I forgot to look up over the weekend, of a mine that once did an entire lake disappeared into a mine.

Have you ever thought about going to like HNA to promote your business, Jeff?

Yeah, I hit up Landscape Ontario for a booth this year and they called me and they were like, hey, do you want a 40 by 10 booth? I was like, absolutely not.

There's no way.

I would not be able to use a 40 by 10 booth.

It's just small guys left, right? That's why this 40 by 10 booth is still open.

I

don't know what the theme of Landscape Ontario Congress is this year.

Is there usually a theme? They do themes? There was bagpipers one year.

Certainly did.

They're asking us to dig the hole three times the size of the root ball because what is that Landscape Ontario spec? Where does this spec come from?

Three meter

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Welcome to the Landscape Ontario podcast.

I'm your host, Carina Sinclair.

There's something really neat about hearing an industry talk to itself.

Not in a boardroom or on a webinar, but on a busy trade show floor, face to face.

At the Landscape Ontario Congress, Canada's largest and longest running trade show and conference for the landscape profession, thousands of people come together to discover new products, make connections, learn from one another, and get a sense of where the industry is headed.

If you've never been, Congress is one of those events that's hard to explain until you've experienced it.

There's the energy of the trade show floor, the people you run into, the things you didn't know you needed to see until you saw them, and the conversations that can send you home with a new idea or a new direction for your business.

Now let's start with a question that says a lot about the value of being there.