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BROOK KLAUSING: When I was growing up as a kid, I used to
want to own a camping store.
I used to think this was my desire was to sell North Face
and Patagonia equipment.
I ended up opening a landscape company in order to try to
save money to open up another store.
I must've been eight when I cut my first
yard for about $5.
Klausing Brothers, cut class to cut your grass was one of
our first slogans.
Somewhere along the way, I think we began to recognize
that we were able to create a different type of beauty.
This was the main attraction to landscaping right up front.
My name is Brook Klausing.
I'm from Lexington, Kentucky.
I've been in New York for about eight years.
I'm the owner operator of Brook Landscape.
You know, when starting a business, here gardening in
New York, it wasn't 100% clear to me up front what it was
that I was going to be doing.
Because mainly, I had a plant background.
And it wasn't until I got involved with an architecture
firm, a design build architecture firm, that I
really realized what my passion was.
When I started pitching to clients or talking with them
about the gardens, we didn't just talk plants.
We talked redoing walls, stone walls, and
brickwork, and patios.
And slowly, it just started eating into every trade.
When you're new at something you can have a talent towards
it, but experience really cleans up your act.
The biggest asset to Brook Landscape that's allowed us to
grow successfully, has been niching
ourselves in the market.
It's rare that you can call up one person and not really have
to manage that much.
As a designer, my goal is to get people to look at these
environments as their favorite place to be.
One of the big things and influences and powers I have
is to try to change people's
perceptions towards the landscape.
The starting point is the feeling and the emotion that
you should get from being in a space.
I'm ready to take my career and what a name I've made for
myself and push it towards a connection between people and
the planet they live in.
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