Some cats hate traveling in vehicles. Others however get used to it early and have the time of their lives! This little meower is living his best life! Every oncoming car is just like kitty-tv!
Braylon is the very first kid to receive our new collectible pins! Kids can earn these special pins throughout their journey and proudly receive them after completing The 50 Yard Challenge. Braylon earned six of our first 20 pins: Featured on the News, First Respondonders for mowing 10 or more lawns for first responders, Veterans for mowing 10 or more lawns for veterans, Safety First for always wearing the proper safety gear, Leaf Raking for raking leaves during the challenge, and On Fire for completing his final lawns on an incredible hot streak!
Congratulations again, Braylon, on completing The 50 Yard Challenge and becoming the first recipient of our new pins. Your dedication to serving others has truly set the standard!
A new era begins for us. The Black Jacket.
Starting this year , kids who complete the 50 Yard Challenge will earn a black varsity jacket as a symbol of their hard work, dedication, and service to their community.
The inspiration behind the Black Jacket comes from the tradition of the green jacket awarded at The Masters Tournament, creating a meaningful symbol that represents excellence, commitment, and achievement within our program. Kids get the jackets along with their new equipment .
Kids of previous years that did the challenge , will be able to get one once we secure a sponsor for our jackets. If any company is interested in becoming a sponsor and having your logo on our jackets & shirts please reach out.
It gives me great pride to announce that Jesse of Hayden, ID ,who is taking part in our 50 yard challenge has officially submitted his 50th lawn , completing our 50 yard challenge ! I will be hitting the road in the next few weeks to head to Idaho to deliver him his brand new lawn equipment . Congratulations again, Jesse..
Braylon, congratulations again on completing The 50 Yard Challenge! This is an incredible achievement that you should be extremely proud of. A year ago, you made a commitment, and throughout the past year, you remained dedicated to serving people in your community. Your hard work, perseverance, and willingness to help others say so much about your character.
As you work toward your next goal of starting your own business, we wish you nothing but success. Carry the same work ethic, determination, and commitment you showed during The 50 Yard Challenge into every area of your life, and I know you will accomplish great things. Always remember: “The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams, work tirelessly toward them, and refuse to give up.” Congratulations again, Braylon!
A man who spent thirty years reviewing sports cars has taught this country more about its own food than every minister, union and campaign of the last fifty years combined.
Here is what five series of Clarkson's Farm put in front of the public, and not one line of it is opinion.
- A thousand acres, worked flat out for a year, made a profit of £144. Under forty pence a day.
- By year six the same farm was losing money, weather and prices turning a projected £37,000 into a five grand loss.
- A crop can drown in the field after months of work and take everything with it, and nobody is coming to help.
- The farmer is the only man in the food chain who sells at a price he does not set. The supermarket sets it. He takes it or he takes nothing.
- The council can shut his restaurant, refuse his car park and stop him selling his own food off his own land.
- The subsidy he was told to lean on can be closed overnight, the big estates first through the door, the small farms locked out.
- One outbreak of bovine TB can lock a farm down for months, banned from buying or selling a single cow, through no fault of its own.
- Rear pigs with real care and the butcher's maths can still make them a loss, so the animals go and the loss stays.
- The margins are so thin that a rich man buys farmland not to earn from it but to shelter money that earns elsewhere. The shelter exists precisely because the farming does not.
Now hold that against the story you were sold. Greedy farmers. Subsidised for doing nothing. Wrecking a countryside they are somehow also the custodians of.
There is no profit. That was the reveal. A show that set out to be funny accidentally filmed the slow strangling of the people who feed us, and the country watched it happen and finally understood what its cheap food actually costs.
Clarkson has now admitted the plainest part out loud: it is the television money keeping Diddly Squat alive, and most farms do not have a television show. Britain grows about sixty per cent of its own food and the average farmer is past sixty. That is why both numbers are heading the wrong way.
It took a Lamborghini tractor and a man doing it for a laugh. Fifty years of earnest campaigning could not manage it.
Family, Please help me in congratulating Braylon of Cape Coral, FL on completing our 50 yard challenge by mowing 50 free lawns for the elderly , disabled , single parents and veteran in his community . * He requested electric equipment.
It gives me great pride to announce that Aaron of Hayden, Idaho,who is taking part in our 50 yard challenge has officially submitted his 50th lawn , completing our 50 yard challenge ! I will be hitting the road in the next few weeks to head to Idaho to deliver him his brand new lawn equipment . Congratulations again, Aaron..
The world has warmed by 1.4°C since the start of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago.
Meanwhile, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels around 426 ppm have delivered a remarkable ecological windfall: over 5.5 million km² of new leaf area springing up across the world since 2000, according to NASA satellite observations.
This isn't just a marginal shift. That green growth equals an area twice the size of the Amazon Rainforest. In the arid Sahel, barren lands have shrunk as vegetation expands, while Arctic tundra greening jumped 38% between 1985 and 2016.
Overall, the satellites reveal that between 25% and 50% of the planet's vegetated land showed a marked increase in greening.
This surge in plant growth boosts agricultural productivity while reinforcing the Earth’s natural cooling mechanism. Over 30% of these greening areas mitigate local heat through enhanced transpiration and water-vapor management.
The biosphere isn't a passive victim; it is an active participant. What we are witnessing isn't collapse — it's plain biological abundance.
(Chart source: NASA MODIS satellite leaf area index data)