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Bluestem Landscapes
Key Contact: Judy Allmon
1012 Boonville Road
Jeffereson City, MO 65109
USA

Telephone: (573)230-1196
Fax: (573)230-1196
Email: judy@bluestemlandscapes.com
Website: http://wwwJudy Allmon.bluestemlandscapes.com

Judy's career began in 1977 as designer for the Missouri Department of Conservation. In 1983, she was invited to join the Missouri Department of Natural Resources-State Parks. Her position emphasized historic and recreational landscape management as well as building renovation and interior design for cabins, lodges and historic state buildings. In 1988, she fulfilled a life-long ambition to own her own company. She launched Westway Group, a Seattle-based company that offered turnkey commercial interior design and furnishings for healthcare and hospitality projects in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions and averaged over $10,000,000 annually in projects.

She returned to Missouri in 1999 and created SmartBiz, a consulting company which offered creative marketing and program development outsourcing to Midwest businesses and state agencies. In 2001, one of her contract projects developed into the Missouri Department of Conservation's innovative Grow Native! program that she directed for over five years. She was successful in building the program through a unique website and suite of marketing materials, increased funding and staff, and exceptional government and organizational alliances that advanced the Program to its current level. She garnered much of the program funding through federal grants which she both wrote and administered. In 2003, the Grow Native! program was named one of the top ten state government programs by the Council of State Governments.

Judy is a member of the Garden Writers' Association and contributes a monthly article to the Kansas City Gardener as well as a regular column for 10,000 Rain Gardens' www.rainkc.com and The St. Louis Gateway Gardener. She has designed and written content for the websites of Grow Native!, www.grownative.com and Critical Site Products, www.critsite.com in addition to Clarity Connect's marketing program, POP Signage. She speaks at professional conferences and public seminars, is a member of Kansas City's 10,000 Rain Gardens Speakers Bureau, and serves on both the Missouri Botanical Garden's Plants of Merit Consulting Committee and Missouri Landscape and Nursery Association's Strategic Planning Committee.

Through Bluestem Landscapes she consults regionally to commercial and government projects on native plants for working landscapes and visual management and on communication strategies for improved landscape success. Her company, Bluestem Landscapes, is a State of Missouri WBE (Women's Business Enterprise). She and her husband, Arlen, have two sons. They live in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Marketing materials which showcase an area's landscaping and open spaces as amenities as well as conservation-minded, e.g., brochures, website pages, interpretive signage. For residential developments, homeowner educational materials that offer ideas supporting similar, easy-to-implement concepts for reduced resource use and easier maintenance on their own lot landscapes. Corresponding covenants to guide residential landscape design and maintenance may also be developed.

Public relations campaign which celebrates project successes at each level, plus contact, coordination and endorsement of landscape design concepts and implementation by local key influencers.