Natalya Lowther uses a manual reel mower to cut the grass at her home in North Lawrence in this June 2008 photo. Lowther grew up using a manual-style mower, and she said it's cheaper than a ...

What’s low-cost, environmentally friendly, virtually maintenance-free and quickly reclaiming its place on our lawns? (Hint: It’s not those plastic garden gnomes.) It’s the manual lawn mower, and it’s ...

CHICAGO (AP) – Powerful, loud mowers have been showing lawns who’s boss for decades. But now contraptions that couldn’t cut butter without a good shove are quietly – really quietly – making a comeback ...

Garth Madison can mow his yard at the crack of dawn if he so chooses — bird song in the background instead of neighbors’ chirping complaints. This seeming miracle of modern science is actually thanks ...

If you only have a small patch of lawn or grow short, warm season grass, then a standard push-behind mower may not be the best tool for the job. Reel mowers can cut grass shorter and more precisely ...