Photo Credit: Miami-Dade Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces
South Florida’s landscape experiences little change throughout the four seasons. In fact, the region boasts a rainy period that lasts several months, and a 12-month growing season! While this makes for a lush, green, year-round lawn, it also comes with a set of challenges that are both time-consuming and costly.
For Miami-Dade Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department’s Special Assessment District Sports Turf Management and Landscape Services Division, saving time and money on maintaining green spaces and grass-cutting schedules became essential to their operations.
“Five days a week, an 86-person crew is responsible for maintaining the green space of 122 communities, more than 20 acres of athletic fields, and providing landscape and maintenance services to seven county departments, including the Port of Miami and all … county police stations. Becoming more efficient not only with our time, but with our resources became our number-one priority,” Chief of Special Assessment District Sports Turf Management Division Gil Delgado explains.