Every new lawn in this valley begins as bare ground — raw grade, river sand, a slope waiting on rain. Central Maine Hydroseeding works that blank page, laying down seed, mulch and tack in one green wash and then watching the color climb up out of the dirt over the weeks that follow. Fairfield gives the job good conditions: the soft ground along the Kennebec above the Shawmut dam, warm June afternoons, and the evening showers that come up the valley on schedule. Alongside the hydroseeding there is ordinary keeping-up work — mowing, trimming, and the seasonal cleanups — across Fairfield and out through Skowhegan, Norridgewock and Clinton. There is a real satisfaction in returning to a bank that was mud in May and finding it knit tight and green by July.