West of Hudson the land lifts toward the Bolton line, orchard hills catching the last warm afternoons before the ground goes hard. Mitchell Land & Labor, inc. works up and down that grade, mowing and trimming through the growing months, edging, cleaning and mulching beds, carting off whatever spring and autumn leave behind. When the freeze sets in, those same properties get plowed and shoveled, with sand on the pitched drives where a truck has to back out blind. Hill ground makes you plan: where the snow goes, and where the water will run when it finally melts. Done right nobody notices a thing; they just back out of the driveway and go.