Tomás Alvarado
Owner · here since 2009
Started with one truck and a Wyckoff route. Still walks every estimate himself.
Home Who we are
One truck in 2009. Six now.
Tomás started with a Wyckoff route and a trailer. Seventeen years later there are fourteen people on the payroll, and almost every one of those first clients is still on the schedule.
The short version
We grew slowly, on purpose.
Landscaping is an easy business to start and a hard one to keep. Anyone can buy a mower and print a flyer in March. The difficult part is still being on the same street in year nine with the same two people on the truck. Nothing else makes a property better over time.
We have turned down more work than we have taken. For the first six years we would not touch hardscape at all, because we did not have anyone who could build a base properly and we were not going to learn on a client’s patio. Marcus came in 2012, spent two seasons on maintenance, then went and got ICPI certified. That is when we started selling patios.
What we are honest about
Nothing is deer-proof in Bergen County. A lawn under a mature oak is not going to be a good lawn. A patio built in November looks identical to one built in June and costs the same, and if you wait until April to call about one, you are getting it in August. We would rather say all that on the first visit than write it into an email in year two.
If a job is wrong for us we will tell you, and we will usually tell you who to call instead.
Who you will deal with
Four names worth knowing. One of them picks up the phone.
There is no call center and no sales team.
Danielle Hart
Design and estimating · here since 2015
Rutgers horticulture. Draws every plan that leaves this office and will argue with you about plant spacing.
Marcus Whitfield
Hardscape foreman · here since 2012
ICPI certified. Has never once let a crew skip a compaction lift. Nothing he has built has settled.
Ana Reyes
Maintenance manager · here since 2017
Runs four crews and 240 properties a week off a whiteboard and a phone. Knows every gate code in Bergen County.
Paperwork
Licensed, insured, checkable.
Certificates go out with every proposal and sooner if you ask. Anyone who will not send them is telling you something.
NJ Home Improvement Contractor Registration on file
NJ Pesticide Applicator Category 3A, two licensed staff
Insurance $2M general liability, workers comp current
ICPI certified Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute
Rutgers Master Gardener On staff since 2015
Better Business Bureau A+ rated, accredited 2013
Service area
Twenty-five minutes of the yard, and no further.
Routes only work if they are tight. A crew that spends an hour driving is a crew that rushes your property, so if you are outside this we will say no.
Weekly routes Wyckoff, Ridgewood, Franklin Lakes, Midland Park, Allendale, Glen Rock, Waldwick, Ho-Ho-Kus
Projects and snow Oakland, Mahwah, Ramsey, Wayne, North Haledon, Hawthorne, Fair Lawn, Saddle River
Shop and yard 24 Bergen Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ 07481
Come and meet the crew.
The person who walks your property is the person who draws the plan, and the foreman who builds it is on site every day of the job.