Bearclaw Landscape Services is celebrating 28 years in the valley, although owner Juan Meraz got his start in the landscape business in 1988, working for Rainbow Landscape Company. He jokes that in those early years, he did landscaping for newly built homes, and the ground was so hard and compacted from the construction crews that he had to use a bear claw to break up the soil. When he decided to start his own company, the first thing that came to mind was “Bearclaw,” and the rest is history.