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The Guide: Tree Service Companies in Freehold Borough, NJ
A large tree that’s leaning, storm-damaged, or growing too close to the house is a judgment call before it’s a job — deciding whether it should come down, be cabled, or be left alone is work the state limits to a Licensed Tree Expert. Routine work — pruning low branches, grinding a stump, clearing storm debris, or taking down a smaller tree — can be handled by any registered tree care business, including one licensed only as a Licensed Tree Care Operator, and that’s often the more affordable choice for the job. The comparison table below shows which license each business on this page holds.
How We Selected These Businesses
Every business on this page carries an active registration with the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts, showing a status of Registered and naming at least one individual the Board licenses as a Licensed Tree Expert or a Licensed Tree Care Operator. We read the register ourselves and recorded what it showed, on the date printed next to each business. This guide covers Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Howell Township, Farmingdale, Manalapan Township and Englishtown.
44 businesses returned for this cluster (Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Howell Township, Farmingdale, Manalapan Township and Englishtown). 34 are Registered, 3 with a Licensed Tree Expert. 10 are Suspended.
Which Business Fits Your Job
A big tree over the house that’s leaning, storm-damaged, or possibly dying calls for a judgment before any saw comes out — whether it should come down, be cabled, or be left alone — and that assessment is work the state licenses only to a Licensed Tree Expert. A business employing a Licensed Tree Expert, marked LTE in the table below, is the fit for that call.
Low branches over a driveway, a stump, storm debris already on the ground, or routine pruning and removal is work any registered business can legally do, including one licensed only as a Licensed Tree Care Operator (LTCO) — and that license often costs less. Tree removal itself, including a large tree, is LTCO scope; the license does not indicate crew size, equipment, or capacity, only which judgment calls the business is licensed to make.
About This Guide
This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Tree service companies appear here because the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts’ public register shows their registration status as Registered and names at least one licensed individual — a Licensed Tree Expert or a Licensed Tree Care Operator — on that registration. That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No business can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the table says about it. Businesses are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was verified against each business’s own website and the NJ Board of Tree Experts’ public register in October 2026.
Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Where a sponsor’s message appears above that heading, it is paid for and labelled, and it buys nothing in the guide. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says. Where a row carries a verification date, that is when we last checked that business’s record ourselves. A row without one has not been checked recently — that is a fact about our work, not about the business. The NJ Board of Tree Experts checks each business’s insurance when it registers and again at its two-year renewal; nothing checks it in between, and we did not verify insurance coverage ourselves on the date shown for each row.
Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Howell Township, Farmingdale, Manalapan Township and Englishtown. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.
The Businesses, Compared
Listed alphabetically.
| Business | NJTC Registration # | Licensee and class | Based in | Services published | Storm / emergency availability | Record checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A&A Lawn Care And Landscaping LLC | 939620 | Abel Tlapa (LTCO) | Freehold | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Aarons Tree Service LLC | 768342 | Steven Volpe (LTCO) | Howell | Tree removal and trimming, stump grinding, brush chipping, firewood supply, clean-up with portable skid steer | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Briggs Tree Service & Landscaping LLC | 939217 | Fray Tlapa Vivas (LTCO) | Freehold | Tree trimming and pruning, tree removal, stump grinding | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Buck’s Cutting Edge Service | 777843 | Daniel Rocco (LTCO) | Freehold | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Cholula Tree Services LLC | 939428 | Jenny Moro (LTCO) | Freehold | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Clavin Tree Service | 768131 | Thomas Clavin (LTE) | Howell | Crane service, tree removal, tree pruning, stump grinding, tree climbers, firewood delivery, emergency services | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| CNC Landscape & Tree Service | 939554 | Pedro Tlapa Luna (LTCO) | Farmingdale | Tree cutting, trimming and pruning; full-service landscaping design and installation | Published: 24/7 | 2026-10-18 |
| Connie’s Tree’Service | 768136 | James Wesolko (LTCO) | Freehold | site not readable 2026-10-18 | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| David’s Lawn & Landscape Design, Inc | 939749 | Tyler Bruseloff (LTCO) | Manalapan | Landscape design, hardscape design, landscape maintenance, outdoor lighting, tick and mosquito treatment, hardscape restoration, outdoor kitchen and fire features, lawn restoration (tree services not itemized) | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Eagle Tree Service & Landscaping | 841464 | Juan Avila (LTCO) | Freehold | Tree removal, tree pruning and trimming, stump grinding, tree health assessment, emergency services, landscaping | Published: 24/7 | 2026-10-18 |
| Enriquez Tree Care and Landscape LLC | 768165 | Elmer Cedillos (LTCO) | Farmingdale | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Ever-Green Plantscapes Inc | 934945 | Gregory Hanley (LTE) | Freehold | Landscape design and installation, ponds, decks, brick walkways, drainage, nursery (tree services not itemized) | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Fly with Freedom | 933010 | Servando Flores Suarez (LTCO) | Howell | Tree removal and management, landscaping, emergency services | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Full Service General LLC | 768254 | Steven Pielli (LTCO) | Englishtown | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| General Tree Experts, LLC | 768399 | Steven Pielli (LTCO) | Englishtown | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Green Rite Landscaping and Lawn Care | 924276 | Victor Cortes-Breistan (LTCO) | Freehold | Tree trimming, removing hazardous trees, storm damage cleanup, stump grinding, removing dead trees; also landscaping, lawn care, hardscaping, grading, snow plowing | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| H&C Tree & Yard Services | 939644 | Helder De Abreu (LTCO) | Howell | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| J&R Outdoor Services, LLC | 770091 | Richard Whorf (LTCO) | Howell | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Joe’s Landscaping and Tree Removal Service Inc. | 768552 | Joseph Amulevicz (LTCO) | Manalapan | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Kristian Tree Service and Landscaping, LLC | 925026 | Kathy Grassi (LTCO); Oswaldo Gavarrete Gomez (LTCO) | Freehold | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| M.T. Tree Service Inc. | 768612 | Mark Thomas (LTCO) | Manalapan | Tree removal, stump grinding, pruning, chipping, firewood, land clearing, commercial property tree maintenance, backhoe service, emergency storm service | Published: 24/7 | 2026-10-18 |
| Marin Landscaping LLC | 841467 | Rigoberto Marin (LTCO) | Freehold | Garden care, sod installation, tree trimming, emergency tree removal | Published: 24/7 | 2026-10-18 |
| Monmouth County Tree Service | 939783 | Kathy Grassi (LTCO) | Freehold | Ground clearing, tree removal, stump removal, tree trimming, landscaping and tree planting | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| NJ Landscaping H&L, LLC | 939493 | Hector Lora Santana (LTCO) | Freehold | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Oasis Tree Service & Landscaping LLC | 914555 | Florentino Mentle (LTCO) | Freehold | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Puebla Tree Service | 768730 | Richard Aiello (LTCO) | Howell | Tree removal, tree pruning and trimming, limb removal, stump grinding, landscaping | Published: 24/7 | 2026-10-18 |
| ShelterWood Forest Managers LLC | 939801 | William Brash (LTE) | Freehold | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Sunny Tree Service And Landscaping LLC | 939530 | Johnny Payan-Lozano (LTCO) | Freehold | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Tree Releaf LLC | 939795 | Adam Walton (LTCO) | Manalapan | Tree removal, tree trimming, stump removal, mulch installation | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Tree Trimming Solutions LLC | 939399 | Wilber Corella (LTCO) | Freehold | Tree removal, tree trimming, stump removal, landscaping, yard cleanup, snow removal | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Troys Tree Service | 777604 | Troy Ebner (LTCO) | Howell | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Ultimate Tree Service | 768877 | George McCoy II (LTCO) | Howell | Tree removal, stump grinding, pruning/trimming, lot clearing | Published: 24/7 | 2026-10-18 |
| Winemiller Tree Service | 777609 | Robert Winemiller (LTCO) | Howell | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Wolverine Tree Service LLC | 768891 | Brittney Ceron (LTCO); Jose Benitez (LTCO); Francisca Ceron (LTCO) | Freehold | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
Checked against the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.
Something out of date?
This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a name, an address, a registration number, or whether a business has closed — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly, and a business that publishes a registration number we have recorded as absent is exactly the kind of correction we want.
And if you run a tree service company that should be on this list and is not: the test is the same one every business here cleared — that the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts’ public register shows your business as Registered, with at least one licensed individual named on the registration, based in Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Howell Township, Farmingdale, Manalapan Township and Englishtown. Show us that and you go on the page.
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Additional Resources
NJ Board of Tree Experts register
This is not a ranking.