Dig anywhere in Sayreville and you meet the ground that made the town — dense blue-gray clay with pale sand under it, the stuff the old brickyards ran on. Green Collar Landscaping works on top of it: mowing, trimming and edging through the warm months, cleanups in spring and fall, plowing and salting once the borough freezes over. The truck is loaded before sunrise, and the day ends when the last property is right rather than when the clock says so. There is real pride in turf that comes up even across ground that never wanted to be flat. There is more in a driveway cleared so completely that the storm feels like somebody else's problem.