1 of 3 — Have Scythe, Will Mow Valley News photo courtesy - Granite State News Collaborative 2024 This story was originally produced by the Valley News. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the ...

CONTRADA PETRARO, Sicily – Spring is ending and summer approaches. The grass is now long, finished growing. For us, it's time to scythe. This is a beautiful, and slightly sad, time of year for my wife ...

Some were retired for convenience while others never made much sense, these are the old-school lawn and garden tools you ...

Green robotic electronic grass mows a lawn next to bushes. The history of the lawn mower is really the history of cutting grass, and that starts with a scythe. In roughly 200 years we’ve gone from ...

When I was a child, I had a print of Winslow Homer’s 1865 painting “The Veteran in a New Field” tacked to the floral-papered wall of my bedroom in the colonial farmhouse where I grew up. In the ...