American Land Management

About American Land Management

Alturas sits on the Lake Wales Ridge, a spine of ancient dune sand that was shoreline when Florida was a smaller place, and grass has to be coaxed to hold on it. American Land Management takes the wide lots and long frontages of that country — the acre-and-a-half yards, the pasture edges, the strips of turf between grove and road — and keeps them mowed, trimmed and clean-lined. There is a real satisfaction in a big property finished: the last pass laid parallel to the first, the fence line trimmed tight to every post, the drive cleared. Between Alturas and Bartow the sand roads run straight, and so do good mowing lines. Growth on this ridge never fully stops, so neither does the schedule.