A Nova Scotia boy is honing his entrepreneurial skills this summer, as the owner/operator of a lawn-mowing business.

Eleven-year-old Hawksley Cooper plans on spending his summer mowing lawns, for a fee.

“It depends on how far away they are, or how big their lawn is, if it takes a long time to mow it I usually charge them more,” says Cooper.

The Halifax boy says he’ll mow your lawn, as long as you have an outdoor outlet.

“The one downside is that it needs the cable,” says Cooper. “So some houses I can't do.”

Despite the obstacle of a cord, Cooper says he has no plans to switch to gasoline.

“I like the electric one just because you don't have to go get gas or refill it. You just kind of plug it in and then it's done,” says Cooper.

The young entrepreneur has a little help getting from client to client.

“My mom just drives me over there, I give her 10 per cent of the cut,” says Cooper.

“I'm trying to teach him all the lessons about contract work,” says Bernadette Cole, Cooper’s mother. “He's learning to save, he's learning to use his own bank account, he's learning how much his time is worth, how much his labour is worth. Like, I don't know if he told you, but his dream in life is to mow lawns for the city.”

Cooper has already begun to build quite the resume.

“I'm like if that's really what you want to do, go out and get some experience doing it and see if you really like it and so far he loves it,” says Cole.

He also loves spending the money he's earned; especially on NERF guns.

“It's starting to get out of control,” says Cole.

“One day I just went to the store and I saw it and I'm like, I want that,” says Cooper. “So then I just started getting into nerf guns.”

By the end of the summer Copper hopes to be an expert in cutting grass and cutting cheques for his favourite toys.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Matt Woodman