Out toward Vernon Center the town still shows its farm bones — a green, a white steeple, and hayfields that go silver when the wind moves across them. Gardner and Sons Landscaping works that older part of town and the newer streets alike. The summer round is mowing, string trimming, and edging, plus the spring and fall cleanups that decide how a property carries itself the rest of the year. Winter turns it into plowing and shoveling: driveways long enough to matter, opened before the school buses run. Honest, repeating work, and the results are visible from the road, which is how this crew prefers to be measured.