Kendel White Part 1: A $100 Truck, a Sears Credit Card, and the Beginning of K&D Landscaping
This week on Trades Talk, Justin White sits down with the K in K&D, his dad, Kendel White, co-founder of K&D Landscaping, for Part 1 of a 2-part father-son conversation that traces the origin story of one of the premier landscape companies on the Central Coast.
Kendel takes us all the way back to 1986. 22 years old, freshly married to Justin's mom, working as a catering chef at Pajaro Dunes for nine bucks an hour, and looking around at his executive chef mentor pulling 60-hour weeks and thinking, "there has to be a different way." That different way started with a $100 rust bucket truck, a…
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