Our Staff

Susan Jock is working on her 15th season at New Vistas, installing landscapes. For the past 14 years Susan has been supervising the crew and the past several seasons, she has begun assisting with estimating installations and helping prepare landscaping designs for presentation. Susan is also a certified applicator for treatments on shrubs and trees. When she is not at work, Susan raises cattle on a small farm at the edge of Goshen and breeds championship rabbits for show, as well as working with the St. Joe County 4-H rabbit club. Her landscape related experience prior to New Vistas includes caring for greenhouse plants, propagating shrubs and trees, and owning a floral shop where she created countless arrangements. Susan’s knowledge of plants, artistic eye, and attention to detail are a great asset for New Vistas. When Susan and her crew finish a job, the work is really well done.

John Burkholder is working on his 10th season at New Vistas. The first 6 years John worked on the crew and also did tree and shrub spraying for our clients. The last couple years John has specialized in doing the spray treatments for our customers. John works in his garden in his free time concentrating on perennial flowers and bee-keeping. He also visits his daughters and grandchildren in Alabama whenever he gets an opportunity. Before John came to New Vistas, his job experience in landscaping included working as a grounds keeper at an apartment complex. John loves plants and cats, about equally, and is ready and willing to tackle just about anything we need to tackle.

Judy De Pue is the owner of New Vistas Landscaping and has been designing landscapes around Elkhart County and the surrounding area for 30 years. She meets with clients and tries to listen to their wants and needs while planning a landscape that will survive well in the future. Designing landscapes and working in her own yard are her hobbies along with reading and volunteering at Creekside Church of the Brethren, especially in the public Prayer Garden on site. Judy and her husband try to be encouraging to their adult daughters as they pursue volunteer work overseas and a nursing degree and are looking forward to the birth of their first grandchild. Before Judy started New Vistas Landscaping, she used her design training to teach art in the Goshen Community Schools, the parks department, and part time at Goshen College. Her listening ear, creativity, and God’s guidance, have helped New Vistas Landscaping persevere and become what it is today.