Ag Natural

About Ag Natural

By the middle of June the foothill grass along Rough and Ready Highway has turned the color of straw, and every green lawn in Grass Valley becomes a small act of intention. Ag Natural works that line between wild and tended — mowing, string-trimming the rough edges, cutting back the weeds that crowd a fence, hauling off what the cutting leaves behind. Summer here is long and dry, and the work is measured in early starts, before the heat comes up off the asphalt. Come November the rain returns and the grass wakes with it, and the routine shifts to leaves, needles and standing wet. It is plain work with a plain result: ground you want to walk barefoot on. The route reaches Penn Valley, Rough and Ready and the roads out toward Smartsville.