About Us

Chris Skowyra Organic landcare is a full service organic lawn care and landscape company started and operated by the owner Chris Skowyra in 2015. Chris has nearly two decades of experience in the green industry starting out in high school where he worked for his hometown of Ware's cemetery department before moving onto become a foreman for Reidy's landscape in Agawam, MA . Chris enrolled at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, for Business Management, before transferring to UMass Amherst, where he got a degree in Turfgrass Management from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. Chris was lucky enough to have completed internships while at UMass for two major league baseball organizations, First the Milwaukee Brewers, and finally the hometown Boston RedSox. The experience and knowledge gained while working in the Major leagues has helped Chris to become a professional, detail orientated, extremely hard worker. After college Chris spent the next ten years working for two of the premier organic landscape companies in Massachusetts; Minuteman Landscaping, and Pure Lawns. This is where Chris developed his passion for organic lawn management which helped to set himself apart from other companies. He took the course to become an AOLCP(associated organic landcare professional) with the Northeast Organic Farmers Association organization and became a member in 2008. Chris set out on his own in 2015 to finally pursue his dream of starting and operating his own company. In the last two seasons the company has grown tremendously with the help of some great clients and a loving family. Chris is happily married to his longtime sweetheart Ashlee. They were happy to announce the birth of their first child Owen Joseph in January of 2016. Chris and his family live in beautiful Mansfield, MA.