Roots 'n Shoots

Roots 'n Shoots is a family-run landscape design, masonry, and hardscaping outfit based in Acton, Massachusetts, and nearly every review lands on the same name: Stevhan. The company's own site says it has worked the western Boston suburbs — Belmont, Arlington, Bedford, Lexington, Concord, Chelmsford, and a string of nearby towns — for about 10 years. The written record runs from late 2021 through late 2025 and keeps circling back to big hardscaping jobs done well. In a 2021 review, a homeowner described Stevhan's team replacing several retaining walls along with walkways and steps and called the result beautiful; in early 2022, another described a permeable blue stone patio finished at a reasonable price, and later that year a homeowner who'd struggled to get any contractor to return calls singled out Stevhan for actually following through on a 60-foot brick paver walkway. A 2023 Thumbtack review walks through a driveway, front-step, and sewer-pipe replacement completed with eco-friendly pavers and a new soakaway, and a same-year Angi review credits the crew with finishing a project ahead of deadline while staying easy to reach throughout. Not every account is that clean. A November 2025 Angi review is more measured, calling the work fine but slow. And the ratings split by platform in a way worth noticing: Google shows a 4.2-star average from 27 ratings, noticeably below the 4.8 stars Angi and HomeAdvisor both report from what appears to be the same 171-review pool — a gap that suggests some Google customers scored the experience lower than the text reviews on file reflect. Worth asking about directly before booking: the company's Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration (#205106) is on record as expired, a status BuildZoom's own listing for the same license number corroborates, dating the lapse to April 2024. Roots 'n Shoots reads like the call for a serious retaining wall, patio, or driveway rebuild rather than routine yard upkeep — the kind of project where a crew shows up with equipment and finishes stonework that lasts. Confirm the HIC registration status directly and nail down the timeline in writing before committing to a large job.