The Sprinkler Nerd Show

What happens when we start collecting real data from the landscapes we manage? In this episode of The Sprinkler Nerd Show, Andy takes you along for another Car Talk, this time from Southwest Florida, where he's been working with irrigation professionals to deploy wireless sensor networks and explore...

What does 100,000 gallons of water actually mean? Is that a lot? Is it normal? Is it a problem? The answer depends entirely on what you're measuring it against. In this episode of The Sprinkler Nerd Show , Andy Humphrey brings back Truck Talk, recording from the road on a rainy day to explore someth...

Ever asked, "Why can't we just…?" and watched an engineer take a deep breath? You might be technical enough to annoy engineers. Maybe you see connections before you understand all the details. You can picture what something could become, even when you haven't figured out how to build it yet. And you...

I've come to realize that what I do is art. Because making things is where I feel the most free. In this solo episode, I reflect on creativity, curiosity, and the relentless pursuit of making things better. Why I believe there is no single right way to do something, why I had to figure so much of it...

You're paying for clicks and leads. How much of that is actually turning into paying customers? I'm in St. Louis at Chans Weber's office at Agile & Co ., with marketing questions straight from a podcast listener who wants to know whether his money is being well spent. Google Business Profiles, Googl...

Daniel Overton is 25 and already has 8 years in irrigation. He works for Ricci's Landscape Management in northwest Indiana, listens to the podcast, and reached out to me back in July. We've stayed in touch, I sent him a soil moisture sensor to experiment with, and I wanted to get him on the show to ...

What if life isn't like a box of chocolates? Maybe life is like a box of choices. Choose wisely. Today I'm recording from CitiesAlive, the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities conference in New York City. I'm here not because I have to be. Not because someone sent me. I'm here because I chose to be here. ...

What does it really take to go all in on a landscape business? Dean Ricci started mowing lawns at just 10 years old, pulling his mower behind a bicycle with a homemade trailer built by his dad. By high school, he had trucks, trailers, equipment, and employees. More than 30 years later, Ricci's Lands...

Your next opportunity might start with a message you haven't sent yet. When I started sharing my cell phone number on the podcast, I thought I might get overwhelmed with calls and texts. Turns out, very few people reach out. But an irrigation contractor in Indiana did—and the day this episode drops,...

At some point, growing a service business requires the owner to stop being the person who does everything and become the person who builds the company. In this episode, Andy talks with Christy Carter, founder of WorkWife . Christy built an HVAC company from the kitchen table to more than $5 million ...