From the pasture on Gibbet Hill you can see how much of Groton is still field and orchard, stone wall running off into the trees, apple rows combed across the slope. Riverdale Farm and Garden works in that same grain, tending lawns and plantings the way a field gets tended — steadily, with attention to what the ground is actually doing. Spring cleanup opens the year, then mowing and trimming settle into their weekly beat, mulch goes down warm and dark, and the leaves come up in November. A well-kept lawn in this town sits comfortably next to a hayfield, and that is exactly the look worth aiming for. Groton and its neighboring towns.