The Elizabeth River threads the city almost privately, a green seam running behind chain-link and back fences, and the yards it passes are often wider than the street would guess. Backyard Bro's LLC spends its Saturdays back there — mowing the long side, trimming the fence line, hauling out whatever piled up beside the shed over the winter. Grass grows fast this close to water, and a yard left two weeks turns from a chore into a project. Kept on schedule it stays a place you can actually sit in, which is the entire point of having one. Cleanups bookend the year for households all over Elizabeth, opening the ground in April and closing it down in late fall.