With rakes, trash bags, paint, and a little bit of elbow grease, participants went around the downtown and waterfront area to ...

Some niche gardening tools from Home Depot include post hole diggers, tamping bars, reel mowers, compost spreaders, thatch ...

Trees across the Region are beginning to fill with the wonderful colors of fall. But that means raking season has also arrived for many area residents and with more than 17,000 raking-related injuries ...

Crisp fall air brings a familiar weekend ritual: dragging out the rake and bagging piles of leaves for disposal. That routine ...

Neighbors Day returns this year on April 25. Neighbors Day is an annual, community-wide event to help elderly and disabled ...

As levels gradually dropped from the top of the dam, still dangerous but down from the high-water mark, crews removed debris ...

April 22 – is Earth Day, and that occasion is a good milestone to take stock of how “Earth-friendly” your gardening practices ...

Earth Day was founded in 1970 following a 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. But its meaning has changed today. Here's why you ...

My lawn has a problem. A thick layer of organic material—thatch— built up on the soil surface over the winter. A thin layer ...

The Milwaukee Department of Public Works is offering a one-time spring leaf collection starting March 16 to finish work interrupted by early winter snow. Residents should rake leaves into the street ...

The city has three vacuum trucks dedicated to the leaf pickup program, which make multiple passes through each quadrant of the city. The city is divided north and south by Smith Road, and each truck ...