Green Thumb Pittsburgh

About Green Thumb Pittsburgh

Moon Township rides high enough on its plateau that on a clear night the glow of downtown Pittsburgh shows above the eastern treeline, out past the lanes of the Parkway West. Green Thumb Pittsburgh tends the ground beneath that view — mowing, trimming and edging from the first warm week until the oaks finally let go, then plowing and salting once the valley goes hard. Hilltop grass dries fast and scorches easily, so the summer round is as much about how a lawn is cut as how often it is. Come January, those same wind-scoured slopes are the ones that need the earliest pass of the night. Two very different jobs, one township, learned street by street.