Favorite way to enjoy the outdoors: Target practice and fishing with my wife and son.

My favorite thing about the green industry: Driving around town and looking at all the projects that my team and I have installed and remembering the challenges and accomplishments that we made over the years.

Favorite plant: Russian sage.

Hobbies: Collecting firearms and target practice with my son.

Manny is a native of Colorado Springs. He hasbeen in the industry for thirty years and started out at the Sisters of St. Francis convent in Colorado Springs working as a Groundskeeper and Maintenance Tech. Manny started a small landscape company in Colorado Springs which was voted one of the best custom landscapers by the city of Colorado Springs. Graduated from Palmer High School and was not made to work in an office and thoroughly enjoys working outside.