{"id":1049,"date":"2020-08-10T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.seagrant.w3.uvm.edu\/2020\/08\/10\/mo-monday-win-a-mulching-mower-and-more-mo-antics\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:49:21","slug":"mo-monday-win-a-mulching-mower-and-more-mo-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/2020\/08\/10\/mo-monday-win-a-mulching-mower-and-more-mo-antics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Monday: Win a Mulching Mower and More Mo Antics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\n<\/picture>This Mo Monday, we\u2019d like to mention a very important topic! That is, the Raise the Blade<\/a> team is running a contest this summer. People over 18 who live in the Lake Champlain basin can enter for a chance to win a mulching mower! The idea is to help one lucky winner implement the recommended Raise the Blade lawn care practices, while getting to see many people\u2019s ongoing actions to Raise The Blade.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou might wonder how a mulching mower could help someone to implement the Raise the Blade best practices. Since a mulching mower cuts lawn clippings into very small pieces and leaves them in place to decompose, they are easily broken down by soil microorganisms and add nutrients right back to the soil. This adds organic matter to the soil, which helps it to hold more water. Soils that can hold more water help limit the amount of stormwater runoff that leaves a yard, and that\u2019s the ultimate goal of the Raise the Blade campaign.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo enter the contest, simply enter your contact information\u00a0here<\/a>, and share a photo of you or someone else following\u00a0Raise the Blade recommended practices<\/a>, or showing your grass cut to 3\u2033 in height. You can share your photo via email by sending it to\u00a0seagrant<\/span> [at] uvm.edu<\/span><\/span>\u00a0or via social media by posting it to Twitter and tagging @lakechamp or to Instagram, tagging @lakechamplainbasinprogram and using the hashtag #RaiseTheBlade. The drawing will be held on Labor Day 2020.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, about Mo and that Adirondack chair\u2026my husband finished building this and another chair a few weeks ago, and we placed them in the yard in a nice shady spot for some summertime reading and relaxation. We knew Mo would bump into the chairs, but watched him carefully the first time he approached them. I even recorded it, not knowing what might result. Things went perfectly smoothly, which you can see in the video below.<\/p>\n

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