Ascend Landscaping & Irrigation, Inc. started in 1993 as Hitch’s Lawn Service. It was a summer job for Jevard Hitch while he was in college. In the beginning, he had a 1968 Chevy truck and a lawn mower. By 1995, Jevard had built the summer job into a company with a new truck, upgraded equipment, two employees, and seventy-five accounts. Due to college graduation, Jevard stopped cutting grass...