Runkel Landscape Associates

About Runkel Landscape Associates

By late afternoon in February the light over the Ottawa River flats is already going, and if snow is coming it usually shows up right about then. Runkel Landscape Associates is staged for that hour, blades ready, salt loaded, a route through Shawnee township that begins before the first inch has finished falling. The aim is simple and exacting: a lot cleared corner to corner, entrances open, walks scraped so nobody has to guess where the curb is. Freeze-thaw is the real opponent around here, so the timing of a treatment counts as much as the pushing does. Steady winter work, storm after storm, until the ground finally lets go in March.