Trelstad Enterprises

About Trelstad Enterprises

March in Fort Madison is a slow argument between mud and green, settled a little more each afternoon the sun stays out. Trelstad Enterprises works that turn of the year — raking loose the matted grass, pulling winter grit and gravel off the walks, hauling away the branches that came down while nobody was watching. Then the first cut of the season under the water tower on the north side, when a lawn goes from dull straw to something worth stepping onto barefoot. After that it settles into the plain rhythm of the summer: mow, trim, edge, clear the concrete, come back. Fort Madison and the river towns nearby, from thaw right through to leaf-fall.