“I grew up in the business. I started by watering flowers and then graduated to pushing the lawnmower,” he recalls.
Kindret worked in the family business until his late teens, when he earned a scholarship to go and play hockey at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. After a shoulder injury ended his hockey career in 2009, he went back to school to earn his business degree, graduating in 2011. He then returned home to help grow the family business and grow it has.
The company has been recognized with several industry awards in recent years, including perennial winners of the Manitoba Nursery Landscape Association (MBNLA) annual awards for landscaping – its most recent win is the Award of Merit for Polo Park Plaza 2021.