Highgate lies out on the flat clay ground where the Missisquoi runs down toward the bay, and there is nothing between an open field and the wind but a fence line. benwaysoutdoorservices takes the year in two halves out here — mowing, trimming and cleanups through the green months, plowing and sanding once the fields turn white and start blowing across the road. Snow on open farm country never stays where it fell; it travels, it packs, and it comes back an hour after you have left. Doing it properly means going out again. Summer or winter the good part is identical: a place that looks squared away as the truck pulls out of the drive.