Freudenburg Landscaping & Outdoor Living

About Freudenburg Landscaping & Outdoor Living

The Elkhorn River runs quiet and half-frozen past the edge of Madison most winters, close enough to town that fog off the water gathers into the streets around the courthouse square before sunrise, and Freudenburg Landscaping & Outdoor Living works those blocks first, clearing the walks ringing the square before the county offices open. Grain trucks still move through town toward the elevator on the rail line even in the worst weather, so keeping the streets near there passable matters as much as any driveway on a residential block. Snow off the surrounding fields tends to drift into town along the same routes trucks use to haul grain, filling a cleared lane back in within a matter of hours on a windy day. Getting the square's walks bare and salted before the courthouse's first cars pull in matters more than its size would suggest, small as that square is against the whole county around it. By midmorning, with the fog off the Elkhorn finally burning away, Madison's streets are clear and the grain trucks are moving through town again.