Johnke Construction and Landscaping

About Johnke Construction and Landscaping

Some of the driveways this crew clears near Mapleton are ones they poured themselves only a season or two back, the concrete barely through its first summer before the first snow found it. There's a kind of loyalty in that, the same hands that graded a new home site along the section road now keeping its approach open all winter. Out past town, where farmsteads sit back from the road under bare cottonwood windbreaks, a plowed lane is often the only sign anyone's been by that morning. The work runs from foundation and grading in warmer months to blade and shovel once the ground goes hard, one crew carrying a property through both seasons. By the time snow is falling, the driveway they built is the driveway they're keeping open.