The Grass Gurus

About The Grass Gurus

There is an hour in July when Canfield goes still — sun straight overhead, shade pulled in tight beneath the maples, the whole village waiting on evening. The Grass Gurus work right through it, mowing at a height that lets a lawn hold its color in the heat, trimming and edging so the borders stay honest. Grass is a crop as much as a decoration, and in the Mahoning Valley it answers to attention: cut often, cut clean, and it thickens. Those stripes coming up behind a good pass are only the visible part of it. It makes for a fine thing to leave behind at the end of a hot afternoon.