April in Nunda Township is a slow negotiation — snowbanks going gray at the edges, culverts running full, one bare patch on the south side of the yard that widens a little each afternoon. Hope Landscaping LLC waits for the ground to firm and then gets after it: raking out the winter, taking the first mow, re-cutting edges, clearing beds down to bare soil. Summer settles into a steady route of mowing and trimming while the days are long enough to finish properly. When the north country closes back in, the plow goes on and drives get cut open, walks cleared, ice knocked down before it can build. Some places make you earn the green, and that is most of the pleasure of the work.