About

The neighbor who happens to be a pro.

Roggenbuck is owner-operated by Mitchell Roggenbuck — one accountable person for any outdoor project, from the first sketch to the final stone. Here’s who we are and how we work.

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Mitchell Roggenbuck, owner of Roggenbuck Landscape & Design Co.

Meet Mitchell

Started young. Built to a higher standard.

Mitchell started landscaping at 14. By 16 he was on a professional crew at a local mowing and landscaping company. After two years he became the foreman. He worked there five years total and learned just about everything he knows there — hydroseeding, new-home construction packages, grading, drainage, irrigation service. That’s where most of his skills were built, right here in Ballston Lake.

He saw the standard of work the other local companies were putting out, and didn’t agree with it. So he started his own company.

“I knew the standard of quality the other local companies were putting out, and I didn’t support it. The quality I strive for surpasses that. So I started my own company to focus on quality, not on the money. We like to help our clients, and we focus on the quality of the work over anything else.”
— Mitchell Roggenbuck, Owner

What we’re not

This is what bugs us about the industry.

Mitchell has watched the same three patterns play out over and over in Southern Saratoga County. We started Roggenbuck to be the opposite of every one of them.

The call that never comes back.

Contractors who won’t return a quote request, won’t answer a follow-up, won’t pick up the phone. You sit waiting on a yes-or-no while the season slips past.

We answer. Mitchell personally.
The job that gets abandoned.

Crews that do messy work, walk away from the punch list, and ghost the second something needs fixing. The mistakes get buried under the next season’s mulch.

We finish, then we come back if anything’s off.
The uninsured runaround.

Operators with no real coverage who damage a homeowner’s property and disappear before the bill lands. Mitchell sees the Nextdoor posts every week.

We’re licensed, insured, and we send proof on request.

“It’s good to give guidance, but you need to work with the homeowner, and a lot of companies don’t do that.”
— Mitchell Roggenbuck

The project quarterback

One call. One accountable person.

We handle landscape design, planting, irrigation service, lawn care, and snow removal in-house — with Mitchell personally involved in every project. For hardscape and other specialty work — patios, walls, walkways — we coordinate trusted local contractors and quarterback the whole job. You get one phone call, one accountable person, and vetted partners doing what they do best.

“It’s nice to have people in every corner who can bring their skills to the table. You can be a jack of all trades, but not the master of everything. So when you have masters of their different types of projects and bring them all together, you can build a beautiful outdoor oasis.”
— Mitchell Roggenbuck

The crew

Small, tight-knit, and all-in.

Everybody on the team has about as much experience as Mitchell, or more. They live and breathe this work.

Mitchell Roggenbuck

Owner & Foreman

Your single point of contact. Designs the work, runs the crew, and quarterbacks the partners.

RJ

Right-hand Man

Mitchell’s right hand on every job — as invested in the quality as he is.

“Our team is small and tight-knit. Everybody who comes onto the team has about as much experience as me, or more. They’re really good at what they do, and they live and breathe it — they love their job with a passion, so they always make sure they do the best work possible.”
— Mitchell Roggenbuck

Family-run back office

Mitchell’s wife does all the back-end work — the paperwork, receipts, invoices, the whole stack next to the nightstand. Mitchell’s on the tools; she handles the office. That’s what “family-run” actually looks like for us.

What we guarantee

We guarantee what we can actually stand behind: metal edging for a year against winter heaving, and sprinkler heads we install for a year. We don’t guarantee plants or grass — those depend on watering, weather, and disease, and the companies that do are usually selling something they can’t deliver.

When things go sideways

We show up. That’s the standard.

Jobs don’t go sideways often. When they do, you show up. Here’s one that did.

“One that did go sideways was a hardscaping patio job south of Albany. There was a dip in the patio we couldn’t control. After we picked up every stone in the whole patio and re-screeded the entire base, we still couldn’t get this one spot fixed. It took us three attempts, but we finally got it as level as possible. We were determined — we stayed into the dark, working at night, picking up all the stones, scraping them off, and relaying the entire patio twice. We pushed through and made sure the client was happy.”
— Mitchell Roggenbuck

Ready for a yard you’re proud of?

Tell us about your project and we’ll get you a free estimate. Mitchell answers every one himself.