Frost holds late in this valley and comes back early; the growing season is a narrow window and everyone here knows it. Nadeau's Farm & Garden Market keeps an eye on that calendar and works inside it — mowing and trimming through the green weeks, cleaning up in spring once the ground firms, clearing leaves ahead of the first hard freeze. The cutting is regular and unhurried, which is what keeps a lawn even rather than striped. Edges get taken back where the grass meets stone, drive and walk. In a town where summer is counted in weeks instead of months, not one of them goes to waste.