Baierlein Landscaping

About Baierlein Landscaping

Early light comes late to the Mettowee Valley, sliding down the Taconic ridges long after the roosters have given up, and by the time it reaches the slate-country roads around West Pawlet the Baierlein Landscaping crews are already at work. They mow and tend yards, spread mechanical mulch, keep gardens in order, clear spring's wreckage and fall's leaf-drift, bring tired pastures back into grass, open rights-of-way and cut back what has grown where it shouldn't, and set stone and block paving that will settle into the hillside and stay. In winter the same trucks turn to plowing and sanding, and to checking on houses standing quiet under the snow. There is a plain satisfaction in it — a driveway black and clear before the valley wakes, a bank of mulch dark and even against green, a pasture reclaimed, a stone walk laid true enough to outlast the hands that placed it. Around Pawlet the land is worked land, and this is the work that keeps it looking cared for.