Ridgway and Sons Lawn Care

12/06/2025

It’s been over 3.5 years since Cam bought the business…. He can’t get rid of me… or maybe vice versa?

11/12/2025

Another former R&S employee starting up his own biz... Located in Lake Mary , so for those that asked if we'd ever travel south out of Volusia County, Will might just be your ticket...

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582947960449

09/03/2025

Chuck was truly one of the exceptional folks to work for us ( +\- 2016). He was wrapping up the last stages of his teaching degree and we knew he had bigger things in store.

Congrats!

06/23/2025

Former R&S employee (and also a troop 804 Eagle Scout - our best source for quality employees in our 9 years of operation) has caught the side hustle bug…

As Samuel's former employer and part time chaperon on 804 camping trips, we can recommend him as an all around good guy to trust with your property.

Send a message to learn more

01/14/2024

New mobile detailer in town - highly recommended!!!

Cars are my son’s passion. He has been perfecting his craft for the last ~10 years with both our personal and fleet vehicles for R&S. The recent paint correction shown below on an 11 year-old suburban that has never been garage kept was particularly stunning .

He’d love a chance to earn your business. Pricing - including a 10% discount on your first service - is available on his website. Text is your best method of contact for a quick response.

https://bensmobiledetail.com

01/06/2024

Tempted to restart r&s sometimes…. Enjoy!

02/22/2023

August had recently fixed up an old mower to mow lawns in Deltona when he responded to one of our job ads. The stats in this industry underlying the flow of job applicants into a single good employee is quite tragic - We’re in low single digits and probably bordering on a fractional value.

A quality human being who also happens to be Ben’s best friend

✳️Team Member Tuesday ✳️
Today we are high-lighting August, AKA-Augie or Budget Pit!!

August is one of our lead foremen for residential lawn care AND has also recently taken on the responsibility of equipment manager ⚒️🚜

August has been a part of our team for almost a year and was with Ridgway and Sons for over a year before the transition 👏🏼

In his free time he enjoys:
- Spending time with his wife and daughter
- Restoring cars/tractors
- Reading
There is never a frown on August's face and he does a fantastic job elevating other teammates!!
If you see him out on the route make sure you show him some love, especially if you made some homemade sweet tea 😉

02/01/2023

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❇️Team Member Tuesday❇️
Sales Manger, Nathan Ridgway.

Nate joined our company in April of 2022 to handle our designs and sales side of things.
He enjoys creating solutions and designing beautiful spaces for our customers to enjoy. He is an absolute rockstar and we are grateful to have him as a part of our team🤘

Nate was born and raised in Deland, is the second oldest of 7, is married to Abbey his lovely wife, and has two cats named Biscuit and Gravy. His favorite hobbies/things to do include airsoft, board games, going for runs/walks, sports, and visiting historical sites. Did we mention he is a total foodie? Nate is also extremely family oriented and will do anything to help the ones he loves!

10/05/2022

Sneak peak at what's coming... Subscribe to the Two Hearts, Catering and Events Deland, Fl page for more updates / ideas / showcases of the mrs' mad skills. Seriously the adult Lunchables plates… Er, I mean charcuterie boards …. are works of art!

Take it from me: 7 kids = nearly 100 parties to date and I don't think we've had a lame one yet! Need ideas / help with any special event? You need to call Jenny!!!!

ps. The airstream / mobile kitchen is still a work in progress, hoping to have some update pics on the blog later this month.

08/26/2022

A little update from Jenny and I on our new (ad)venture. We plan on keeping the blog below updated with our progress rather then this page going forward but thought some of you would enjoy this:

http://ridgwayandsons.com/two-hearts-mobile-kitchen/

Shout outs to the folks @ Mobile Concessions and AMP Trailers who will be assisting us in this project.

04/30/2022

That's a wrap....

For 8+ years, we've run this "little" side hustle. Started out as a handful of houses in our neighborhood that my sons and i could mow during my lunch break (and a way to justify purchasing a $2000 push mower Jenny thought was ridiculous). In short order it exploded and we sought to prove you could operate a business, pay living wages, and offer comprehensive benefits that allowed employees to provide for themselves and their families with a degree of financial security not often seen in this field. That effort had some successes as well as failures. We hemorrhaged cash to the brink every off season, but refused to layoff people in a seasonal business as many do. That said, we never missed a payroll cycle and our employees had a job, health and other insurance year round. We attempted to provide quality services with top notch customer service to back it up. I hope we succeeded on the latter and most importantly, we hope we made a difference in human lives.

But we're tired. The post-COVID labor market has been brutal. Putting Jenny and Olivia in trucks the last two years because grown men can't show up coupled with giving up our weekends to make up the rest got to be too much stress for all of us. It was a good run. We learned a lot, my sons have bigger retirement accounts than i did at their ages, and we have no regrets.

Wish everyone the best. Jenny and i have been going through our customer base for the last several days, calling anyone we weren't sure had opted to continue service with McBride, trying to make sure we didn't miss anyone and no one is left high and dry next week or beyond. If you haven't heard from us or McBride Land Services LLC by now (i really hope that count is 0!!!!), please reach out and we'll get it resolved ASAP.

We'll be traveling / camping / boating / relaxing with our weekends from here on out. Nathan, Benjamin, and August are/will be working @ McBride.

-Brad and Jenny