Lose the Lawn

Here are just a few reasons to convert your lawn into a meadow or native garden:

Lawns are monocultures, aka dead zones, and do nothing to help our ecology.
Lawns take up 40 million acres in the United States. This is land that we could give back to animals and important pollinators.
Lawns make up the largest agribusiness in the United States.
Fossil fuels are used to maintain lawns.
Chemicals used to keep lawns green greatly harm our plants, animals and ecosystems.

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