By Becca Bona

The smell of Earth mixed in with the sweet aroma of cut grass fills the air at 5305 Kavanaugh, the location of the newly minted community garden project in the Heights. The force behind the project follows two friends’ idea to make money, initially just by cutting grass.

The idea eventually spun into a full-fledge business now known as Natural State Horticare.

“We get some funny looks when we tell people we do organic, only,” said Andrew Kenley, co-owner of Little Rock’s newest full-service organic lawn-care service. Kyle Melton, his partner-in-crime chimed in, “We had an idea that we wanted to install gardens in people’s backyards, but we didn’t think we were really going to do it.”

It turns out the two have been able to really do it, and then some….. [read more]