WHAT WE DO

Millennial Landscape & Construction, a full-service landscape company based in Metro West, Massachusetts, offers year-round services to both residential and commercial clients. We provide customized landscape design, comprehensive installation, and maintenance services with a commitment to excellence.

Our experienced and knowledgeable staff will create a functional, pleasing, and personal landscape that meets your specific needs. From custom design to comprehensive installation, we ensure that your landscape is preserved and enhanced throughout the year with our full-season maintenance services.

Our dedicated team of experts creates functional and aesthetically pleasing environments tailored to your unique requirements. We have multiple associate and bachelor degrees in various horticultural studies, including landscape design, ensuring that we provide you with a beautiful, ascetic, and functional property. 

Dedicated to our craft and clients, we’ve made a strategic decision to bolster our landscape construction division by acquiring a successful hardscape company, Mass Hardscapes. Effective immediately, Mass Hardscape has integrated into Millennial Landscape & Construction as our hardscape construction division.

As a proud member of our community, Millennial Landscape & Construction sponsors a non-profit softball league where Rusty and Joey played during their high school years. As time passed, it became evident that they were more interested in sponsoring the league than playing themselves.

We hope you’ll consider Millennial Landscape & Construction for your residential or commercial property needs. We’re committed to helping you achieve your vision and, together, we can enhance the beauty and value of your property. Contact us for a free, no-obligation estimate—let’s breathe new life into your property!

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Mass Hardscapes Acquisition

Dedicated to our craft and clients, we’ve made a strategic decision to strengthen our landscape construction division by acquiring a successful hardscape company, Mass Hardscapes. Effective immediately, Mass Hardscape has integrated into Millennial Landscape & Construction as our hardscape construction division.

After over a decade in the industry, we’ve cultivated numerous valuable relationships with vendors and fellow contractors that have significantly contributed to our success. Among these relationships, one stands out as particularly remarkable—the friendship between Joey and Josh Jones. They met at The University of New Hampshire, studying horticulture technologies. Josh went on to found a premier hardscape company, Mass Hardscapes, after graduation.

As the years passed, Josh ventured into a new business venture within the hardscape industry, targeting a different audience. He established Hardscape Media Creations, a company that captures and creates media content for high-end hardscape contractors. After managing Mass Hardscapes and nurturing his new business for a year, Josh decided to dedicate his full attention to Hardscape Media Creations.

Josh, having built a premier outdoor living brand over the years, didn’t want to let it decline. Instead of selling it to the highest bidder, he approached a few close friends who owned landscape businesses in the area to gauge their interest in acquiring the brand.

Josh presented this opportunity to Rusty and Joey, and it was exactly what they had been seeking. With the same passion for quality and care for their customers as Josh, he knew they were the perfect fit to take over the brand.

Mass Hardscapes is now the hardscape construction division of Millennial Landscape & Construction. Although there’s a change in management, the same level of quality and care will be provided to every customer. Our goal remains the same: design and create beautiful outdoor living spaces that are custom-created for each individual family to enjoy together and make memories outdoors!

Joey Defina

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

From a young age, Joey and Rusty have always been drawn to the outdoors. Coming from generations of blue collar workers, construction has always been in our blood. Our father learned from his father and so on, so it only makes sense to keep the trend going! With the increase exposure, our appreciation followed!

At 15 years young, Joey had started his landscaping company with a few lawns and went with it from there. Soon after, the maintenance jobs were stacking up with joeys early horticulture education from Minuteman Tech High school. After getting a grasp of the extended knowledge he decided he was going to further his education at The University of New Hampshire at the Thompson School of Applied Sciences.

While attending, Joey majored in Horticulture Technologies and continued leading Millennial. Coming back almost every weekend to perform mowing, fall cleanups and snow plowing, Joe leaned on his brother, Rusty to help lead the company.

During his time at school, Joe had tons of in field experience with the school supplied facilities. Operating skid steers and mini excavators to install patios, walkways and pond less waterfalls, Joe experienced real life scenarios while attending college. While some of these projects were completed on school property, most were installed properties off campus for the public. What a trade off, Joey and his classmates got real life experience while the client receive a landscape feature for free.

After completing his associates degree in horticulture technologies, Joey pursued a business certificate to help strengthen his tool belt for when he graduates and leads Millennial full time. During his time at school, Joey formed many valuable relationships.

When he’s not engulfed in professional pursuits, Joey enjoys spending time with his new fiancé, hanging with friends, relaxing on the beach at his family’s vacation home.

Rusty Defina, COO

Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer

Rusty’s journey took a different path compared to Joey’s. Initially, he worked as a laborer for his brother during his early high school years. However, his dedication and hard work soon led him to secure a crew leader position in his later high school years.

Motivated by his passion for the landscape industry, Rusty decided to pursue higher education. He enrolled at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at The University of Massachusetts Amherst, a prestigious institution ranked first in the nation and fourth globally. During his time at the university, Rusty earned an Associate’s Degree in Landscape Contracting and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sustainable Community Development, with a specialization in Landscape Design and Build.

Rusty’s thirst for knowledge and continuous learning led him to join the agriculture fraternity, Alpha Tau Gamma. This fraternity fostered a close-knit brotherhood that emphasized academic excellence, hard work, and the development of unique connections between alumni and the active brotherhood.

During his college years, Rusty gained valuable experience through a five-month internship with R.P. Marzilli & Company. This internship exposed him to various large residential landscape projects, where he learned essential skills such as installing multiple comprehensive irrigation systems and planting towering 35-foot Oak trees.

In addition to his internship, Rusty participated in the National Collegiate Landscape Competition, where over 80 colleges and universities across the country showcased their landscaping talents in various categories.

When he’s not engrossed in his professional pursuits, Rusty enjoys spending time with his close friends, relaxing outdoors, and soaking up the sun at his family’s beach house.