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Helping breathing and the environment is what health entrepreneur Marjorie King of Fairfield hopes to accomplish in her effort to provide pollution-free lawn care with her Reel Mowers, Etc. company. "Ten percent of our country is covered by lawn and home-owners are more of a problem with outdoor chemicals than farmers - everybody's trained on farms," she said. "At home people tend to want to nuke the weeds." King said instead of lawns being a source of pollution, they should be a better source of oxygen, where grass is allowed to grow taller to filter out more pollutants and produce more oxygen. Her business sells reel mowers that cut instead of rip the grass, whether they be push mowers or cordless electrics. All are available through her company Web site at www.reelmowersetc.com. Reel Mowers, Etc. also offers a new line of disease-resistant and drought-tolerant grass seed blended for sunny, shady, or sunny and shady lawns. And the mowers are being sold nationwide. "We've sold mowers to customers in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Hawaii and Alaska and everybody pays the same," King said. "A gas-powered mower can pollute 50 times as much as a car in an hour and many of our customers say our reel mowers are easier to deal with." King said she got involved with the yard-friendly business in part because she suffered from severe asthma attacks and migraine headaches. "I'm very sensitive to smog. People don't like to think about (home-caused pollution) or talk about it, but it is real and is not going to go away unless we act as individuals - it's not the job of government. Somebody has to do it and that somebody is us."
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