Our Staff

Susan Jock is working on her 12th season at New Vistas, installing landscapes. For the past 11 years Susan has been supervising the crew. 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.

Carolyn Jock has worked with New Vistas as a design assistant helping with measuring, entering jobs into the CAD (computer aided design), and helping to prepare plans for presentation. Over the past couple years, Carolyn has gone from over full time down to 1 day a week as retirement time nears. During the past 12 seasons she has also cared for the plants at New Vistas, done estimating, some bookkeeping, and occasional design work. Carolyn came to us with landscaping experience at several garden centers including her own. She also raises and shows rabbits in competition. Loving plants all of her life, there is hardly a plant that Carolyn doesn't know.

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 2nd year working with installations at New Vistas again. In his spare time Keith plays the guitar in a Christian rock band 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. 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.

John Burkholder is working on his 8th 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 two years John has specialized in doing the spray treatments, taking care of the grounds at the New Vistas shop and assisting the crew as needed, especially with deliveries of materials. John works in his garden in his free time and 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.

Vanessa De Pue is currently serving as the bookkeeper for New Vistas Landscaping while she pursues a 2nd college degree in a new field. Vanessa began helping with the business when she was 2 or 3 years old cutting out pictures of plants from catalogs for a penny a picture. Somewhere between 4 and 5 years old, she helped pull out dead bushes at a job site that her mom couldn't quite budge. From there on, Vanessa has worked about any job there is at New Vistas, becoming the bookkeeper during her last 2 years of high school. Vanessa is currently a chemist by profession and includes reading among her list of hobbies. Her understanding of this landscaping business along with her flexibility at completing about any task in an accurate manner, contribute to her value to New Vistas whenever she has the time to work.

Judy De Pue is the owner of New Vistas Landscaping and has been designing landscapes around Elkhart County and the surrounding area for 25 years. She meets with clients and tries to listen to their needs and wants 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 her church. Judy and her husband try to be encouraging to their adult daughters as they pursue mission work and a nursing degree. Before Judy started New Vistas Landscaping, she used her design training to teach art in the Goshen community. Her listening ear, creativity, and God's guidance, have helped New Vistas Landscaping persevere and become what it is today.