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Rooted in Houston ·
Garden Oaks & Oak Forest
Our Commitment to the Community
Hogue Landscape Services believes that great landscapes go hand in hand with a strong community. Our team is proud to support local organizations, volunteer initiatives, and projects that help improve the places we live and work. Through both company efforts and the personal involvement of our founder and CEO, Matthew Hogue, we are committed to giving back and making a positive impact.
Giving back to the city that built us.
- LEADERSHIP ROLE
Houston Livestock
Show & Rodeo
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is more than an annual event — it’s one of the largest scholarship and youth development programs in the country, awarding more than $14 million in scholarships in 2025 alone and more than $630 million to Texas youth since 1932. Matthew Hogue’s involvement goes well beyond attending. He holds leadership roles across multiple committees and has made personal commitments to specific young people whose futures the Rodeo is built to support.
Calf Scramble Donors Committee — Committeeman
The Calf Scramble is one of the Rodeo’s most distinctive programs — young 4-H and FFA participants compete for certificates that fund the purchase of a breeding heifer or market steer, which they then raise and return to show the following year. It’s a year-long commitment that teaches animal husbandry, business planning, and follow-through in a way that few other youth programs can match. Matthew serves as a Committeeman on the Calf Scramble Donors Committee, helping fund the certificates that make that experience possible for participants across Texas.
International Committee's Agri-Summit — Captain
The Agri-Summit brings together agricultural leaders and innovators from around the world to discuss the future of the industry — a forum that positions Houston as a global center for agricultural leadership. Matthew serves as Captain for the International Committee’s Agri-Summit, connecting the Rodeo’s mission to an international conversation about where agriculture is headed.
School Art Auction Committee — Vice Chairman of Sales
Mentoring Evan Longoria — From Scramble to the 2026 Steer Auction
- PERSONAL COMMITMENT — 2024
$300,000 Reserve Grand Champion Art Purchase
At the 2024 HLSR School Art Auction, Matthew and Laura Hogue joined a donor group that purchased the Reserve Grand Champion Work of Art — Head On by Mingyi Li of Clements High School — with a winning bid of $300,000. The group also purchased Funky Feathers by kindergarten artist Adalyn Simpson of Pearland ISD. These purchases directly fund scholarships for student artists across the Houston region — a tangible investment in the creative futures of Houston's youngest residents.
- Youth & Education
Investing in
Houston's Youth
Hogue’s single highest community priority is the next generation. That means showing up for students in tangible ways — not just writing checks, but getting on campuses, solving real problems, and opening career doors that might not otherwise exist.
Frank Black Middle School — Drainage Engineering
When heavy rain turned the grounds of Frank Black Middle School into a muddy obstacle course — students and staff were unable to move between buildings without soaking their shoes — Hogue’s team got to work. We partnered with Frank Black to assess and address drainage issues across key areas of the campus, creating safer, cleaner walkways that made a genuine difference to hundreds of students and teachers every time it rains in Houston. Which, in Houston, is often.
Oak Forest Elementary — Sponsor & Campus Steward
Scouts of America — Landscape Architect Badge
University of Houston — Internships & Cougar 100
Kinkaid School — Sporting Clays Benefit
Each year, Hogue Landscape Services proudly supports The Kinkaid School's Sporting Clays Benefit at the Greater Houston Sports Club — a community gathering that brings together Houston families, businesses, and Kinkaid supporters for a day of fellowship and friendly competition while raising funds for special programs and student initiatives at the school.
- Supporting Our Community
Giving Back to Garden Oaks & Oak Forest — Where We Live and Work
Oaks Dad's Club — Youth Sports Supporter
Hogue Landscape Services proudly supports the Oaks Dad's Club — a long-standing nonprofit that has served families in Garden Oaks and Oak Forest for decades. The organization provides children ages 4–14 with opportunities to play baseball, softball, soccer, and football, building teamwork and community connection that lasts well beyond the playing field. For a company whose home is in GOOF, supporting the organization that brings the neighborhood's families together is an easy commitment to make.
Oak Forest Homeowners Association — Space & Collaboration
Hogue provides space for Oak Forest HOA meetings and collaborates with the association on initiatives that keep the neighborhood clean, welcoming, and well-maintained. It's the kind of quiet, consistent support that doesn't generate press releases — but that reflects genuine investment in a community we're part of every day.
- Environmental partner
Trees For Houston — Urban Canopy Investment
- Hogue involvement
Matthew Hogue — Personal Community Leadership
Community involvement at Hogue isn’t delegated to a marketing department. It runs through the founder directly — through the volunteer hours, the committee seats, the personal relationships with young people the company’s Rodeo involvement has produced, and the personal checks written at the School Art Auction.
Matthew Hogue holds active leadership roles with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo across three committees — Calf Scramble Donors, the International Committee’s Agri-Summit, and the School Art Auction — each of which requires year-round involvement, not just annual attendance. He mentors Calf Scramble participant Evan Longoria personally. He and Laura Hogue have made significant personal investments in student scholarship funding through the School Art Auction.
That level of engagement reflects a belief that running a successful Houston business comes with an obligation to the city that made it possible — and that the obligation is best fulfilled in person, not by proxy.
Watch "This is Why We Rise: Matthew and Laura Hogue."
- We Love houston
Houston Has Been Good to Hogue. We Take That Seriously.
Every project we complete in River Oaks, Memorial, The Heights, or The Woodlands is made possible by a city that values its outdoor environment and the people who design and maintain it. We don’t take that for granted.
What you see on this page is what that gratitude looks like in practice — in the committees Matthew sits on, the campuses we maintain, the scouts we take on property walks, the student whose steer auction we’re invested in, and the neighborhood association meetings we host in our office.
We’re a Houston landscaping company. We’re also just Houstonians. Those two things are the same thing to us.
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