Twin Cities Podcast

“I don’t think there’s anybody in the world that has jumped off of more docks on Lake Minnetonka than I have.” If Minnesota were to crown a modern day renaissance man, Josh Leddy would be the odds on favorite. Josh is the founder of Life’s A Beach Shoreline Services, a full service lake weed management company on Lake Minnetonka. Josh and his crew utilize good old fashion manual labor and pull the weeds by hand rather than using harmful and ineffective chemicals. He created the business in 2004 as a way to make summer money when he was home from college. A few years later the idea took off and today Josh serves roughly 350 homes on Minnesota’s most popular lake. Also in the interview, Josh provides details on his new brewery schedule to open in May of 2017 called Back Channel Brewing Collective. Josh plans to specialize in sour beers and also use the brewery as a means to educate people about the ecosystem of Lake Minnetonka. If that’s not enough, Josh has been running a youth hockey league for the past d