The country around Constantine is flat and generous — river-bottom soil, long fields, dew standing white on everything until the sun clears the treeline. Constantine Turf Farms, Inc works in that early hour, when grass cuts cleanest and the day has not yet turned hot, mowing and edging turf into something even and true underfoot. There is real craft in a surface that holds its color and takes a footstep the same way everywhere on it. Through the growing season the routine repeats: cut, trim, clear the clippings, leave nothing behind but the lawn. When the fields go gold in the fall, the cleanup work begins and the season gets put to bed.