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"Dan Delventhal signs his emails “Dan QuiMOWte,” a play on the title character from the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The nickname is apt because Delventhal, like Don Quixote, is on a quest to take down machines with loud, spinning blades. But the Fairfielder’s enemies aren’t windmills — they’re lawnmowers...."

Click here to read the April 2011 MowGreen Gazette.

To spread the word and promote earth-friendly lawn care, MowGreen will be exhibiting this Spring at the following events:

Fairfield Garden Expo
March 19th & 20th, 10am-4pm
Fairfield Ludlowe Highschool

Fairfield County Home and Outdoor Living Expo
March 26th & 27th, 11am-5pm
The Stamford Plaza Hotel

HCC Environmental Fair
April 28th, 10am-2pm
Housatonic Comm. College
Lafayette Hall

Fairfield Earth Day Celebration
April 30th, 10am-4pm
Fairfield Warde Highschool

Wilton Go Green Festival
May 1st, 11am-4pm
Wilton Library and
Wilton Town Green

Hope to see you there!

MowGreen has now launched its own newsletter, to keep the community up to date on the latest development and offer tips on green lawncare.  The March issue included news about MowGreen New Haven's organic certification, reviews of earth-friendly snow-removal gear, and a call for friends of MowGreen to get the word out and help shrink pollution.

To view a copy of the March MowGreen Gazette online, please click here.  If you would like to receive future issues in your e-mail inbox, please send an e-mail to mow@mowgreen.us and we will include you in the list!

The MowGreen customer base grew by over 100% for the fourth year straight. The revenue growth rate was slightly higher, representing an increasing amount of ancillary services beyond the traditional Mow, Trim, Edge, Sweep routine, including hedge trimming, leaf cleanup, weeding, over seeding, etc.

We hope to maintain high growth rates (80-100%) through 2015, a year when we will reduce air pollution by the equivalent of 20 Million auto-emission miles! 2010's reduction was 100,000 miles!

Dan QuiMowte says "congratulations to all of MowGreen's conscientious customer and service provider partners - cleaner air and sanity in lawn care is less the impossible dream thanks to you!

Reel Mowing the Two Acre Lawn - Feasibility Testing Update

Ultra Successful Grass - Final Stage Organic Program - High Speed Spring Growth Challenges Reel Mowing Adequacy

We reported earlier that testing push reel mowers for feasibility on a 2 acre lawn was a success, not only as an aesthetic and healthier alternative, but also as an economically and humanly possible achievement. Natalie Johnson and Jack Besel, two marathon-running, athletic and nature-loving college students had successfully mowed a two acre lawn with push reel mowers in 3 hours, including trimming and cleanup. However, as this lawn is in the final stages of an organic treatment program including over-seeding, and considering the healthy rain supply and balmy spring weather, the grass has thickened and taken off like nothing we have seen. Is organic treatment a superior alternative? Uh, yeah, this lawn is thicker and growing faster than any other lawn MowGreen has mowed to date. And it has now become difficult to complete a mowing visit in under 5 hours for two people. Uncle! We need power gear! Mind you we have dozens of other lawns that are easily done with reels, but this one has become a challenge. There are good lessons in this challenge; 1. Organic treatment, when applied for 3 years is the best alternative for maximum results, 2. Come on! Lighten up on the treatments, it's not as if we are growing food here!-), 3. Self sharpened ("grit back-lapped") reel mowers may decline in effectiveness, and 4. grass gets healthier and thrives when mowed by reels. The big surprise of this ultimate test of viability came when a new Scott's reel mower was deployed and it seemed to cut the grass "like butta " compared to the other older reels.

Some benefits of reel mowing are: lightest eco impact option available with no fuel and no weight to the equipment (less compaction), and low cost as well. It has a small transportation footprint which helps rid our roads of trucks and trailers and more emissions and traffic! So in going to power gear, we proceed with caution, opting to maintain a small transportation footprint and capital cost (although higher than reels, much lower than mongo units and trailers). Cordless battery powered self propelled residential oriented units may provide some relief. They are quiet like reels, yet the material mining for the batteries and power to charge them and the disposal or recycling of them has a heavy eco impact (better than gasoline - hello Gulf Spill!). MowGreen.US is unique in that it has converted gasoline systems to burn hydrogen, and has a source of inexpensive hydrogen supplied by solar power. Although these systems are loud like gasoline systems, they burn hydrogen and a little oil - lower emissions and less gasoline consumption and spillage! We tested a self propelled mulching residential mower units there as well. A problem with them is time consumed changing and filling tanks of hydrogen. Another problem we discovered was that this lawn was so healthy and lush that the 4 day growth also choked back the 6.5 horse power Hydromow rendering it less useful than the new Scott's 20 inch reel which cut better than any other reel we have seen previously. We believe it has been re-designed or something.

By using reels as much as possible, and by augmenting them only when necessary with small footprint cordless battery powered electric units and gasoline to hydrogen converted small systems. MowGreen hopes to remain as a viable alternative to the gas guzzing, fume spewing, gas spilling, road congesting fleets that plague us today - on a large scale, including lawns as large as 2 acres. If all our reels worked like the new Scotts we just tried out, this nightmare (for mowers) lawn could still be viable without the need for large power equipment. But the situation does obviate the counterproductive relationship between fertilizing lawns and mowering required. Always, the more you fertilize the lawn, the more money you need to spend (and often, pollution you need to create) to grow a non-food crop in a world tormented by hunger, no less.

Did I mention gasoline powered blower noisemakers? Well they ought to be illegal. We don't use them. We use quiet cordless battery powered units with fast chargers. They blow 120 MPH - that is good enough to move a little grass off the walks, patios and porches!-)

We look forward to more technological advancements like highly efficient reels, push and pull reel gangs, gasoline to hydrogen converted systems, and if we must, battery powered systems. Although lawncare is just 5 to 10% of our air pollution problem, we hope to make a difference environmentally and to spread the practice of fitness and philosophical consistency through reel mowing.

Sincerely,
Dan QuiMowte, Man of LaMowGreen

http://www.MowGreen.US - Reel Mowing; Quiet, Clean & Green

MowGreen Profiled by Moffley Media - Westport and Stamford Magazines

Here is the link:

http://www.mofflymedia.com/Moffly-Publications/Stamford-Magazine/May-2010/Town-Green/

About MOWGreen.US:
MowGreen.US reduces pollution, consumption, noise, gas spillage, dust, traffic, obesity and unemployment with reel mower lawn services - at similar prices as conventional “dirty” lawn care (5 to 10% of US air pollution), while encouraging lawn reduction with native plants and organic gardens.
Established in 2007, MowGreen.US is in Fairfield, Litchfield & New Haven Counties in CT and expanding. MowGreen seeks territory owners/partners to grow, offering extremely modest licensing fees. Please visit www.MOWGreen.US , for more information, or call 203.209.5979.

6 to 10% of our Air Pollution comes from gasoline-based lawncare. The mowers and blowers create 10 to 25 times more pollution per gallon of gas burned in an automobile. An acre of grass mowed emits the approx. equiv. of a 1,000 mile of car ride!

• Reel Mowing
  • Benefits
    • Low Impact Strength Training
    • Low Impact Aerobics
    • Quiet
    • Clean Air
    • No Fuel Required
    • Snips rather than Rips Grass - Better for the Grass
    • No oil or gas
    • Less cost for purchase ($125 vs $200 to $600)
    • Less cost for fuel
    • Lightweight (20 to 35 lbs vs 100 to 500 lbs)
      •     Healthier soil - less compaction
        •        No aeration services mandated
    • Less cost maintenance
    • Easier transport (fits in economy car, no trucks nor trailers needed)
    • Easier starting (no pull chord, choke, nor battery ignition to charge)
    • Higher Frequency Mowing:
      •    Less % of blade per cut
      •       Healthier roots
      •       Better mulching
      •       Fresh cut look more often
    • Doesn't spray grass on walks, driveways and roads
      •    Less cleanup required
    • Doesn't blow dust clouds in bare or dry patches
      •    Preserves top soil
      •    Cleaner air for operator
    • Easier Storage
    • Easier Sharpening (5 minute operation can be done without grinding wheel)
    • .....to be continued

MowGreen New Haven Coverage by New Haven Register

Here is the link:

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/05/06/life/doc4be2a8037aaa8726547362.txt

About MOWGreen.US:
MowGreen.US reduces pollution, consumption, noise, gas spillage, dust, traffic, obesity and unemployment with reel mower lawn services - at similar prices as conventional “dirty” lawn care (5 to 10% of US air pollution), while encouraging lawn reduction with native plants and organic gardens.
Established in 2007, MowGreen.US is in Fairfield, Litchfield & New Haven Counties in CT and expanding. MowGreen seeks territory owners/partners to grow, offering extremely modest licensing fees. Please visit www.MOWGreen.US , for more information, or call 203.209.5979.

MowGreen.US and Enabling Technologies Create HydroMow(TM) Gasoline to Hydrogen LawnMower Conversion!

Fairfield: Dan Delventhal, Founder of MowGreen.US has collaborated with Tim Dolan of Trumbull, CT, founder of Enabling Technologies to convert a traditional gasoline propelled lawn mower to run Hydrogen. The MowGreen HydroMow™ has been tested through two development phases and performs just like originally, except that it now burns emission free hydrogen.


Dan Delventhal with the MowGreen® HydroMow™ - It fits nicely in the back of the MowGreen Hybrid!

The unit has a small ride along tank which can be filled from a master tank for about 20 minutes of run time per fill-up.

Tim Dolan managed the project and conversion and he makes hydrogen with his own Solar-powered Electrolyzer station that he assembled, acquired, and maintains. Enabling Technologies, Dolan's company, supplies MowGreen with their hydrogen.