KMK Property Management works the steep, folded ground of Warren, Vermont, where the Mad River Valley narrows between green ridgelines and the road runs north along the water. Winter starts early here, and so do they — plowing, sanding, salting, shoveling, and hauling off the excess with a front end loader, so a dooryard that disappeared by midnight is a clean dark ribbon again by breakfast. When the frost finally lets go, the work turns to mowing and weed whacking, spring and fall cleanups, gardens put in and tended, and sod, gravel and mulch laid by hand until a yard sits square with the hillside behind it. They dig culverts and swales to send meltwater where it belongs, set doors and windows, take on full renovations including kitchens and baths, hold keys for commercial, private and rental properties, and keep storage units and valley rentals on the books. It is unhurried, deeply physical caretaking, and the valley wears the result in every season it has.