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President & Designer

Todd Schanbacher – President & Designer

Todd Schanbacher has been involved in the landscape & construction industries since 1980 in many different capacities. Starting out working in the General Masonry field with his father building fireplaces, cement walls & floors, sidewalks & natural stone walls, he quickly realized a talent for working with natural materials in the landscape. While construction was interesting, he found a real nitch when he helped a family friend do landscaping for a summer and never turned back. From 1982 until 1985 he worked at Agway Gardens as Assistant Nursery Manager while also planting trees for clients of the garden center. Todd decided to pursue his love of landscaping and enrolled in the Landscape Development major at SUNY Cobleskill from 1984 to 1987 and graduated with an AAS in Landscape Development. Todd then worked with local Landscape Architect Donald Peters, owner of Landscapes Inc. expanding his knowledge of design-build aspect of landscaping. In 1989 Todd decided to go out on his own and started Green Scapes Inc. at its present location in Jamesville as a landscape installation & maintenance company.

Over the years since 1989 Green Scapes has grown from a 2 person crew of Todd & his brother to a company of 15 seasonal employees and 4 full time year round employees. Todd started with one 1989 Toyota pick up truck shoveling mulch out into wheel barrows for deliveries and towing a small trailer with his tools & mower. He has grown into one of the largest bulk landscape supply companies with 6 dump trucks of all sizes, loaders & other handy power equipment. Long gone are the days of shoveling off mulch for deliveries. Todd has also grown into recycling lawn & garden waste into a superb compost blend, striving for the best of any natural barks or composts he can find and working with other companies to attain a more natural based landscape process. The landscape construction aspect of the company designs & builds garden ponds, waterfalls, streams, patios, steps, retaining walls and installs complete landscapes from design to implementation. He is always striving to think up the next crazy landscape or pond idea given the right client, as can be witnessed by the old dump truck waterfall at the entrance to Green Scapes.

Todd has been a member of the Central New York Nurserymen’s Association for many years and has won awards for his creative water garden & landscape displays for the recent CNY Blooms show at the ONCENTER in Syracuse. Todd was also nominated for the 40 under 40 award for local businessmen and won in 2006, just before his 40th birthday. Nothing like cutting it close! Anyone who knows Todd can see where he gets all his ideas. He has had a love of the outdoors since childhood and still enjoys all types of outdoor activities from hunting, hiking, camping, skiing and going to outdoor music festivals or sporting events. It’s easy to see why naturally beautiful landscapes are so easy for Todd to create.