Cheshire keeps a stone monument shaped like a cheese press in the middle of town, which tells you something about how long these fields have been worked. Old New England Property Maintenance looks after the ground around them now: mowing and trimming, edging walks and drives, mulching, raking out the winter's debris and hauling away the autumn's. Lawns here meet hayfield and hedgerow at the property line, and keeping that meeting tidy is half the craft. There's a plain satisfaction in a dooryard mown in clean stripes with the hills standing behind it. Week after week, that's what they hand back to the people who live here.