Urban Yardology

About Urban Yardology

Ice-out on the Kennebec is Dresden's real new year — the river opens, the fields go from tan to a bruised green, and every lawn in town wants attention at once. Urban Yardology answers with lawn care: the first cut of the year, mowing straight through summer, trimming, edging, and sweeping up the winter's scatter of sticks and sand. Spring here is a race that lasts about three weeks, and the lawns touched early are the ones that look right in July. After that it settles into rhythm — a week between cuts, a sharpened blade, a clean line along the drive. Watching a tired March yard turn into a thick May one never quite gets old.