Our Staff

Susan Jock is working on her 13th season at New Vistas, installing landscapes. For the past 12 years Susan has been supervising the crew and as of last fall, 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 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.

Keith Conder originally worked at New Vistas for 7 years in the 1990’s, taking the crew foreman position for 6 of those years. After 8 years in another career, this is Keith’s 3rd year working with installations at New Vistas again. Keith has also been involved with caring for the plants and grounds around the New Vistas shop in between installation jobs. In his spare time Keith plays the guitar and even makes guitars. He and his wife are kept busy working and raising two young children. Keith came to New Vistas with landscaping experience at Black Squirrel Golf Course, working on the crew that built the course, prior to his serving the the Marines both in our country and abroad. Keith contributes his skills to the installation projects with a spirit of energy and enthusiasm that helps bring the jobs to completion in good time.

Carol Spicher Waggy came to New Vistas in the spring of 2008 to work part time on the excel spread sheets to keep track of inventory and work on estimating jobs. She also assisted in measuring jobs, entering measurements into the CAD computer, and creating a planting key after the design is complete as well as helping to stake out on jobs. Carol serves as an interim pastor and visiting preacher when needed for the Church of the Brethren and travels with a Shalom Team to help congregations with conflict resolution. She and her husband have three grown children. In her spare time, Carol has tended many vegetable and perennial gardens in whatever place she has called home, sewn just about any type of project you can imagine, and served in mission settings from the US to the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica in recent years in disaster relief childcare, preventative health care, and leadership of volunteer work camps.

Judy De Pue is the owner of New Vistas Landscaping and has been designing landscapes around Elkhart County and the surrounding area for 28 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 mission work 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.