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The Best Cordless Leaf Blowers of 2026
Clean up your lawn without the cord with battery-powered leaf blowers.
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Meg Muckenhoupt is an environmental and travel writer. She has appeared on NPR’s Radio Boston and WCVB’s Chronicle, as well as WGBH’s Forum site. Her work has been featured in the The Wirecutter, the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and the Time Out Boston guide; her book Boston Gardens and Green Spaces (Union Park Press, 2010) is a Boston Globe Local Bestseller. She gives talks about gardening, Massachusetts landscape history, and Boston’s greatest unknown parks to audiences around New England.
Meg was awarded a certificate in Field Botany by the New England Wild Flower Society and earned degrees from Harvard and Brown University. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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