The Sears Sunken Garden in North Lawndale is slated for restoration. Sears' one-time catalog printing building — a block-long brick behemoth — has been converted into housing. The power plant that ...

Learn how to efficiently prepare your backyard garden using a tiller or rotary hoe. This video covers machine basics, safety features, and hands-on techniques for tilling compacted soil, dealing with ...

Starting your first vegetable garden can seem a little daunting, but we're here to help you plan and plant like a pro. A few key decisions will soon have you on the road to success, including where to ...

Decatur charms from every direction, but the quaint neighborhood of Oakhurst stands apart for its village-style community, front-porch camaraderie, and beloved Porchfest music festival each fall.

If you’re tired of mowers that aren’t built for the long haul and don’t want to go electric, this is the mower for you.

The Craftsman CMCST900D1 is part of the String Trimmers test program at Consumer Reports. In our lab tests, Battery String Trimmer models like the CMCST900D1 are rated on multiple criteria, such as ...

To test lawn mowers and tractors, our testers and engineers travel every winter to specially prepared grounds in Florida, where we plant 1,800 pounds of grass seed (predominantly annual rye, prized ...

The Cloquet area is home to an equipment rental business once again. Lumberjack Rental, at the corner of Vine St. and Avenue B in the Historic West End business district, opened in February. "I ...