Cheshire sits in the broad valley between the West Rock and Sleeping Giant traprock ridges, with Lock 12 Historical Park preserving a working section of the old Farmington Canal at its center and Brooksvale Park on the wooded southern flank. The town runs from the historic Highland Avenue streetscape, through the tighter post-war neighborhoods in Mixville and along West Main, out to the open one-acre frontages of West Cheshire and the orchard country to the north, and up to the shaded eastern slopes near Roaring Brook Falls. Valley soils are productive sandy loam; the ridge properties sit on shallower loam over traprock. The long, visible Highland Avenue and West Main frontages make curb appeal the whole point of an install here.
CT Sod is based in nearby Milford, a short run down toward the Sound, so Cheshire is an easy install market for us. Pallets are cut to order at the farm the morning of installation, carried up the eastern-slope grades and down long West Cheshire gravel drives by all-terrain forklift, and laid by a crew that installs sod nearly every day across the region — backed by 30 years of sod industry experience. On the open frontages we lead with tall fescue for deep roots and traffic durability; the shaded Highland Avenue blocks and Roaring Brook slopes under sugar maple and oak get a bluegrass-fescue blend.