Get rid of the resource-heavy lawn!!

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Issues with traditional grass lawns. 

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• Historical Origins within the English Elite

  • meant to portray wealth and social status
     

• High Input Requirements :

  • Manual labor

  • Chemical fertilizers & pesticides

  • Irrigation (many times treated drinking water)

  • TIME
     

• Source of much Pollution

  • Fertilizer & pesticide runoff affects soil, groundwater, and local waterways negatively

  • Industrialized maintenance machinery creates [unregulated] greenhouse gas emissions
     

• Ecological Dead Zones

  • Toxic environment - does not support life

  • Most turfgrass species are from Europe and Africa and do not occupy a niche in our local ecology
     

• Largely aesthetic

  • Many people rarely use their [front] lawns, which means lawns lack functionality all around

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Benefits of converting a lawn into a native planting
 

• Requires Little to No Inputs

  • Native Plants have evolved to withstand the harsh growing conditions nature creates

  • No fertilizer, pesticides, or supplemental irrigation needed (once established)

  • Weekly maintenance is replaced by seasonal maintenance one or twice a year - saving you time and money
     

• Keeps Toxic Chemicals Out of the Environment - No Runoff

  • By not requiring toxic chemicals, pollution is remedied before it becomes a problem

  • Native Gardens absorb and filter rainwater, cleansing the water naturally as it percolates through our soils and converges in our waterways
     

• Fosters Life - Both Human and Wild

  • Creates habitat for Wildlife including Songbirds, Pollinators, beneficial (predatory) Arthropods, and Butterflies

  • Provides a beautiful - yet functional - green space that lures in People almost as much as it does Wildlife

  • Great Learning Opportunity for children and adults alike - nothing sparks a child’s curiosity as much as watching the entire lifecycle of a Butterfly occur right outside their door

  • Reconnects People to the land - plants grow with the seasons and each season brings something new

  • Highly Ornamental -  North America has some of the most beautiful “wildflowers” on the planet