All About Green

About All About Green

Stand at the edge of Mindowaskin Park in the second week of June and you can see what a kept lawn in Westfield is supposed to look like: even, deep, cool under bare feet. All About Green works toward that green on the residential streets ringing the pond — mowing on a steady rotation, edging the walks, feeding the turf and clearing whatever falls on it. Summer here is humid and generous, and grass will run away from you if nobody is paying attention. In January the same trucks carry blades and salt instead, opening driveways and steps while the pond stiffens over. Green is the name and the goal; the winter work is simply how you get back to it.