Started with my dad.
Carrying it forward.
Ethan grew up in the Gastonia area and now calls Lawndale home, where C4's shop is run right out of the property — no commercial yard across town, no overhead baked into your quote. He learned landscaping the way most good ones do: out in the yard with his dad, summer after summer, job after job. His dad taught him every in and out of the trade.
Ethan started his career on heavy equipment, working as a heavy equipment mechanic for Carolina Cat — which is why our skid steers, mulchers, and chippers stay running no matter the season. He worked the trade alongside his father straight through patrol school on his way to becoming a North Carolina state trooper. The plan, from the start, was that he and his dad would grow the business together once patrol school was done.
His specialty on the crew is land clearing and forestry work — exactly the kind of equipment-heavy work he came up through. When his dad passed away in 2023, Ethan founded C4 to carry the dream forward — and the legacy that came with it. Same eye for detail his father had. Same standards. Same plain-spoken way of telling you exactly what your property needs and what it doesn't.
C4 isn't a chain. It isn't a franchise. It's a small family-rooted crew based in Lawndale, doing landscaping the way Ethan's dad taught him: show up on time, finish what you start, and leave the property better than you found it.