Roy Mejia owns Roy’s Lawn Care in Wenatchee, Washington. He’s 28 years old and operates a company that employs six people. Five days a week, sometimes six, his three mowing crews maintain more than 80 accounts, many of which are HOAs. In addition to mowing, they prune, do cleanups, fertilize and apply weed control, offer enhancements like seasonal color, dethatch and aerate in the spring, and plow snow in the winter.

Located in Santa Paula, CA, Thomas Aquinas College is a private Catholic Liberal Arts School. Nestled in a valley neighboring California’s San Padres National Forest, the college features a 132-acre campus, 10 acres of which are manicured year-round, and an enrollment of 375 students. This is not a typical venue for a Walker Talk story. Yet the mowers and the school complement one another.

Since launching his company in 2005, David Woehler has seen it grow from a small mowing operation into a full-service landscape management business. In addition to providing a variety of maintenance services, Woehler Landscaping in Pittsburgh, PA, installs new landscapes, renovates old ones, and specializes in hydroseeding and mulching.

If you live in Auburn, AL, you know football and you know how important game day is. If you spend much time outdoors there, you’re also likely familiar with Cutting Edge Lawn Service, since its box trucks can be seen daily on their way to and from properties.

Pickle ball? Ever heard of it? It’s a variation of tennis played indoors. Perry Atkinson is an avid player. In fact, when not overseeing his $1.6 million company, he likely can be found on court, honing his hand-eye coordination.

"I’m not ashamed to say I only work about 20 hours a week now," says the owner of 4-A Landscape & Irrigation in Bend, Oregon. "I’ve never been a workaholic."

"There’s a reason you see so many Walker Mowers on trailers around here and why we have three of them," says Paul Isaacson, sexton for the Wendell, Idaho, cemetery. "They live a long life. In fact, we recently sold one of ours that had 8,000 hours on it to a homeowner for $1,500. He figured it would last him forever mowing once a week.