Today's economic conditions have completely redirected trends in the lawn and garden industry, and have created emerging markets that did not exist before and brand new opportunities to go with them. Many of today's opportunities we have in the lawn and garden industry were actually created by the downturn.
Though business models that have worked for the past 25 years are now obsolete and don't work in today's economy, new opportunities have created new business models that DO WORK and create exciting times if you pay attention.