Throughout history, in the United States and around the world, lawn history shows us why we want greener grass.
How Your Lawn is About More Than Grass
Nothing but grass, lawns began as conspicuous consumption from the English and French aristocracy and now are a middle class manicured status symbol.
The Invention That Started to Close the Gender Gap
Worrying that labor saving devices would replace her, Downton Abbey’s cook, Mrs. Patmore, was not pleased with the new electric mixer that arrived in her kitchen in 1922. By contrast, if Edith does move out of Downton Abbey into more…