Tyrrell Hughes

Tyrrell is the Founder of American Landscape. For 38 years, he has served as the company's guiding light. His experience in landscape maintenance, design and development, and snow management services are steeped in breadth. He has worked, planned, and helped lead in every aspect of the company's existence and that continues to this day. Tyrrell works with an extremely loyal group of clients. And he deeply enjoys working on creative projects.

Tyrrell was raised in a small Midwestern farming community and went to school in a one-room country school. His father was an early practitioner of sustainable agriculture and conservation, taking a rundown farm that would grow corn only 4 feet high and yield barely 35 bushels per acre, and through patience, hardwork, suffering and practicing restorative agriculture, changed that land into the most productive in the area, winning a national award in 1947. "I remember to this day my father scooping up soil in his hands in a freshly plowed field on a Thanksgiving Day, running it between his fingers, demonstrating he could tell by feel the qualities or deficiencies of that soil." These early experiences proved profoundly formative and ultimately led him to return to working the land, but in a different way than his father.

Tyrrell also has an extensive background in engineering and teaching. He possesses degrees in several fields ranging from mathematics and physics to medieval studies and theology. He has 5 grown children and is enjoying a growing number of grandchildren, now numbering 17 (and soon to be 18!). 

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