The ground around Gansevoort is sand and pine — soil that drains fast, warms early and asks a lawn to work for its green through a dry August. Grasshopper Gardens Inc tends those lawns across the whole growing season: mowing, trimming, edging, and the cleanups that clear winter's litter in spring and the needle and leaf fall in autumn. Late summer here is quiet, the light going gold over the fields out toward the Snook Kill, and a lawn cut that week looks better than it has any right to. Turf kept on a schedule stands up to the sand and the sun in a way a neglected one never manages. Gansevoort and the Saratoga County towns nearby are the territory.