People hear “Soiland” and assume we made it up: soil and land, a tidy name for a company that moves rock and dirt for a living. It’s a good guess. It’s also wrong. Soiland is a real family surname, carried by a small handful of families in the United States, and it belonged to us long before there was a company to name.

For many years, our team has been helping homeowners, contractors, landscapers, and gardeners find…