Sassafras Fork is quiet country — tobacco barns going gray at the field edge, oaks leaning over the road, and the upper Tar River threading the low places. ACA Lawn Services keeps the yards out here in shape with regular mowing, edging along drives and walks, string trimming, and seasonal cleanups when the fields change color. Granville County ground is red clay under a thin skin of topsoil, so a lawn that looks even is a lawn somebody paid attention to. On a still summer evening a farmhouse yard out here can look like a photograph, the grass short and the fence line trimmed back. Serving Sassafras Fork, Stovall, Oxford, Bullock and Berea.