Mowing grass is like cutting hair: similar goals (make it shorter!) with different tools to get the job done. And just as barbers can opt for clippers or scissors, superintendents have a choice of ...

I have a new favorite summer sound. It’s the gentle whir of the blades on my manual lawn mower. It’s a mechanical sound but an oddly soothing one: a shwick shwick shwick of spinning metal, like a ...