Meet our Awesome Staff

They go by many names - lawn ninjas, hedge masters, craftsman. Below are the hardest working green industry staff in the country. The best of the best and they make it look easy!

Gary Lucero - Crew Member -

The part of the work I enjoy the most is making the yard look better than it was. I enjoy doing yard work around my house. I have a wife and 3 kids. I've lived in Humboldt for about 11 years and I like the weather and the scenery here.

Brandon Benavidez - Crew Member -

What I enjoy most about my job is meticulously planning and moving a project to completion. I enjoy spending time outdoors with my family, I have a wife and four children. I've lived in Humboldt for 7 years and I enjoy watching my family live in a beautiful place, breathing healthy air and exploring where the forest meets the sea.

Larz Ringo - Crew Member -

The parts of work I enjoy the most are helping the community and maintaining fire safety for rural properties, completing big projects and looking at the work done. I really like improving gardens and working in the dirt. My hobbies include playing guitar, volunteering on the fire department and going to the lake around summertime. I snowboard in the winter but lately, I've just enjoyed work a lot. I take pride in helping people that need it. I come from a big family, two older brothers and two younger brothers in South Dakota. I've lived in Humboldt County most of my life. I moved here when I was 12 and have worked on farms ever since. Some of the things I love most about living here is that it's out of town, it's peaceful and you can have privacy and quite you can't buy in town.

Dakota Fontaine - Crew Supervisor -

I enjoy the maintenance of various properties, the installation of drip lines, the planting and the hedging. It’s all fun for me. My hobbies are working on cars, messing around with electrical, riding my Harley Davidson, hiking, camping, and walking my dogs. I have lived in Humboldt County for 28 years, I am very much an outdoors person. I love nature and all the beautiful forestry here makes it a perfect place for me to live.

Ashley England - Crew Member -

What I most enjoy about the work I do is making things look beautiful and maintained. I love to see a space improved, it's satisfying. I enjoy weed-eating, vegetable gardening and flowers. I love irises!!! I have a husband and child whom I love very much! I was born and raised in Humboldt County, I love the nature here, that there are not skyscrapers and not too many people.

Josh Iloff - Crew Member -

The part of my job I enjoy the most are the interactions I go to have with my co-workers. I enjoy getting to go out and do hard work. My hobbies include playing disk golf with my friends. I have lived in Humboldt for most of my life and I love the mountains and all the beautiful scenery.

Weiland Davis - Crew Member -

The part of the job I enjoy the most is seeing the end result of a project. I am a perfectionist so seeing the end of a project is always a rewarding feeling. My hobbies are downhill skateboarding and photography. I am currently a father to be! I've been in Humboldt since 2016 and I love the community here, he oceans. rivers and forests.

Kevin LoMiglio - Maintenance/Repair Crew Supervisor -

I enjoy making an area look “just right” and being outside anywhere in Humboldt County. I am a photographer and musician in my spare time. I enjoy taking pictures of places around here that evoke emotion. I’m a Humboldt native for 23 years. Humboldt County has all of the greatest parts of California: the forests, hills, prairies, and coastal areas. It has it all.

Landon Johnson - Crew Member -

What I enjoy most about my work is waking up to nice beautiful mornings to preform a unique service for good folks, it brings a sense of purpose to my life. Call me weird but, I find my job patriotic, the lawn man's motto: THERES SEMPER GRAMEN AD CUT. My hobbies and interests include building and shooting antique firearms, a fun fact about me is in my circle of friends I am known as the "gun Guru". I love Legos! I've recently gotten back into woodworking and I play video games. And finally, ironically enough, I have an interest in the fine arts that is lawn and garden. My family is Bad to the Bone! I love everything about living in Humboldt except the taxes and gas prices.

Tanner Remstedt - Crew Lead/Supervisor -

What I enjoy most about my job is having an impact on the before and after transformations of the properties we take are of. My hobbies and interests are spending time with my family and taking them to the river. I've lived in Humboldt on and off for two years. My favorite thing about living in Humboldt is the weather in northern and central Humboldt.

Robert Morgan - Crew Member -

The things I enjoy most about my job is working with a great crew! My hobbies and interests include working on cars, riding dirt bikes and quads with my kids and anything that goes fast. I've lived in Humboldt County my whole life, so 30 plus years now. The things I like most about living in Humboldt are the Redwoods, the weather and being so close to the beach.

Lisa Ostlund - Crew Member -

Some of the things I love most about my job are getting to be outdoors, being around good people and getting the job done the best I can. I am an outdoors person, I love hunting, fishing, camping and I especially love spending time with family out at the lake and being with my kids. My kids are my world, I love my family and friends. I've lived in Humboldt County my whole life, born and raised, I wouldn't imagine living anywhere else. The things I love about Humboldt County is the general area, the forest, pretty much everything about it and the community.

Michael Brown - Crew Member -

The part of my job I enjoy the most is the enjoyment of doing a good job. My hobbies include riding my Harley with my wife and fishing with the grandkids. I am a family man. I've lived in Humboldt County since 2016 and I enjoy the woods here.

Michael Gage - Crew Member -

The parts about my job I most enjoy is the flow of work, working in the sun, working with others as a team and wee whacking. My hobbies and interests include sports, racing. family get togethers, and music, mostly rap and country. I've lived in Humboldt County for 22 years and I like that it's not insanely hot during the summer nor that cold in the winter. I like the redwoods and the green vegetation and terrains. Also I like most of the people besides criminals and political view bashers.

Troy Iloff - Crew Lead/Supervisor -

What I most enjoy about my job is being able to build or put together something I'm proud of. My main interests are football and Nascar. I've lived in Humboldt County for 52 years and I love the beauty here.

Cameron Millsap - Crew Lead/Supervisor -

I enjoy working outside with the J&G Lawn and Garden team and seeing the finished projects we do.
Spending quality family time is my main interest right now. I also enjoy painting and working in my garden at home. I have a wonderful girlfriend, Shayla Morss, and we have one beautiful son together, Kingston Millsap. I have lived in Humboldt County for all of my life. What makes Humboldt County such a great place to live is the proximity to the ocean, rivers, and forests with huge, beautiful Redwood Trees.

Kevin Essig - Mechanic/Shop Maintenance -

The thing I like most about working here is the work environment, the bosses and the people I get to work with. I really like going fishing, exploring, riding four wheelers and building go-karts for my grandkids. I have two grandkids that I love to death. I have lived in Humboldt County for 54 years. What I like most about living in Humboldt is the beach, I also like the mountains and the greenery.

Steve Morss - Office Manager -

The thing I enjoy the most at work is the setting at the office, it is peacefully rural, green and quiet. My hobbies are spending time with my wife, the larger family, and our home. I am blessed with my wonderful wife of 45 years, 2 remarkable children with remarkable spouses and six amazing grandchildren. I have enjoyed living in Humboldt County for 5 decades. What I enjoy most about living in Humboldt County is the ocean, the trees and the friendly folks that live here.

Jeremy Sission - Mow Crew Supervisor -

The most enjoyable thing about working outside most of my day is the change of scenery. My hobbies are cutting firewood and swimming. I have lived in Humboldt County for 37 years. The thing I like most about living here are the Redwoods that surround us.