Starksboro's hillsides are stitched with fence lines and old pasture, the kind of country where a mowed yard sits inside a much larger green. Electric Shepherd LLC tends those yards — mowing, trimming around posts and gateposts and garden beds, edging where a drive cuts through the sod. There is a discipline to keeping a lawn sharp against so much open grass; the contrast is where the craft lives. Cleanups open the year in April and close it once the hills have gone rust and gold. Under the wide western light of the Champlain Valley, a well-cut yard reads clean from the road below.