Your Family's Health is Important to Our Family
Our family started our electric lawn mowing service out of a simple need: to find a reliable, eco-friendly lawn care solution that didn’t disrupt our lives. Struggling to find a service that respected our property, didn’t use harmful chemicals, and operated quietly enough to avoid disturbing our work or kids’ naps, we decided to create the kind of lawn care company we wished existed. With a focus on electric equipment, we offer a quieter, safer, and more sustainable approach to lawn care, ensuring your yard is cared for without any of the hassles or environmental impact of traditional services.
Aaron Johnson, Owner Uncle Onion’s Lawn Service, LLC
Aaron has a long history of cutting grass. When he was 13, he rode his parents riding lawn mower up and down the rural roads where he grew up to mow lawns for $20. Through high school, he moved up to the big leagues growing hay crops. It was while reading the warning labels on the Sudan seed at 16 years old that Aaron realized there had to be a better way to grow food.
While in college studying fire science, Aaron started his first large scale lawn service. In one summer he built that company into the largest lawn mowing company in town. Upon graduation, yearning for adventure, he joined the US Coast Guard.
His first duty in the Coast Guard was in Juneau, Alaska, serving at a Search and Rescue station in the wildest place on the planet. Aaron excelled in the Coast Guard, and quickly gained every qualification on boats, law enforcement, and search and rescue possible for his entry-level rank. After four years and six months in the Coast Guard, he got out to chase his dream of fighting fires.
With a passion in his heart for putting out fires, Aaron developed his fire fighting and EMS career, becoming a collector of certifications. Over the years, he was most proud of the Advanced Swift Water Rescue Technician (SWRT) certification he earned. After swimming with whales in Alaska and feeling the rush of class V whitewater in SWRT training, it only made sense that Aaron turned to kayaking.
His love of whitewater kayaking and standup paddle boarding brought him to Richmond around 2008, then, a few years later, to Fredericksburg. In 2014 he fell in love with a biologist, and Fredericksburg native, named Kari, who he is now lucky enough to be married with. With their shared love of water and adventure, they’ve had many unforgettable experiences together with many, many more on the horizon.
In 2014, Aaron started Gaia Lawn Care here in Fredericksburg as a way to test the waters in the world of commercial electric lawn mowing. That test proved to be wildly successful, but with less than one year to test it out, Aaron was disappointed to not be able to push it any further.
In the winter of 2014, Aaron and Kari moved onto a boat in Deale, MD. After experiencing one of the coldest winters in Maryland history, they decided to settle down on dry land. The following Spring, they bought their first house together and got married. Nine years and one baby later, they are back in Fredericksburg and ready to put this electric, organic lawn service idea to the grinding stone.
Motivated by the early success of Gaia and his shared passion for the environment and public health with Kari, Aaron is sure Uncle Onion’s Electric, Organic Lawn Service is going to make big waves in the lawn care industry.
Aaron and his daughter, Olive, doing what they love: Playing in the dirt.
A message from the Owner and Founder:
Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read these bios! My family and I cannot thank you enough for giving us the opportunity to serve your lawn care needs.
You put a lot of trust in a company to take care of your lawn, and you put a lot more trust in a company that wants to do things differently than the proven methods of all the other guys. Uncle Onion’s strives to change the way ALL lawn care professionals care for residential lawns. We want the better, safer methods we use, which have been proven since the first human being broke ground with a plow, to become the norm, not the exception.
Your lawn is a place of play, recreation, and relaxation. It’s for family gatherings and Sunday cookouts. Organic, natural lawn care processes give you the freedom to enjoy your yard anytime you want. There is no waiting period!
We are an organic family that takes the term to extremes. Y’all, we even buy organic cotton clothing and bedsheets when we can! It’s that important to us. My wife is closer to being a scientist than I am, so I try to think like my wife. We test all of our products before they go into your yard. The very first yard to receive a new product is my own, where my two-year old daughter plays. That’s something I take very seriously.
In our first year with this new company, I’m not offering any lawn treatments at all. I’m just not ready to put this stuff on your yard. We have three lawns in the Fredericksburg area, ours included, where we are currently testing products. I’ve affectionately been calling these my Lab Lawns. The Lab Lawns are divided into sections, with each section being treated with a different product. One section in each yard is being left untreated as a control area. My HOA is going to hate that part of my yard!
All the products are either organic (not manure, gross), natural, or are allowed in organic farming. The maintenance products that are going out this summer are edible! I’ve tried them! They’re gross, I don’t recommend you eating the stuff.
I’m certain we’ll find a treatment this summer that will be our winner. If we don’t, I’m fully prepared to go another year without offering lawn treatments. This is my commitment to you: When you hire me to apply a product to your yard, it’s already in my yard, I’ve thoroughly tested and approved it, and I’ve probably tasted it.
Say hi to your mom and them!
Aaron, Kari, and Olive (and now Kai, too!)
Uncle Onion’s Electric, Organic Lawn Care
540-448-8446
