Caldera Land Works, LLC.

About Caldera Land Works, LLC.

Twenty minutes west of town the Jemez open into the Valles Caldera, a grass bowl so wide it rearranges what a person thinks a lawn is. Caldera Land Works, LLC. keeps yards on the Pajarito Plateau, where the ground is volcanic rock and ponderosa duff and soil is something you tend rather than assume. Mowing, trimming and lawn upkeep here mean working with thin dry earth and a summer sun that comes straight down at seven thousand feet. The patience pays: a green rectangle held against pine and pale tuff, the edge clean where grass meets gravel. In August, once the rain has moved off and the air smells like wet stone, those lawns come up so dark and thick they look borrowed from somewhere wetter.