Tag: lawns
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Growing Food Instead of Grass Lawns in California Front Yards
Photo: Morgan Boone, a volunteer with Crop Swap LA, harvested lettuce at the La Salle microfarm in the View Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Front yards transformed to tiny crop farms in Los Angeles provide vegetables to dozens of families and use a fraction of the water needed by grass. On a corner lot in…
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Rebate program helps HOAs become grand-scale water savers
Photo: Landscape renovations of the common area of the 49-home Mall III Lake San Marcos Homeowners Assocation included the removal of 5,000 square feet of turf. Rebates covered the entire $96,000 cost of the project. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune) Company of experts, partnering with San Diego County Water Authority, acts as ‘concierge’ helping…
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Our HOA tore out all the lawns, they erased 49,000 square feet of turf – but say it’s for a good reason
A CALIFORNIA community has implemented experimental new lawns. Solera Properties, a HOA in Bakersfield, California, is using xeriscaping to try to manage water better in the future. While xeriscaping doesn’t look like a typical lawn, it is extremely tolerant to droughts, which is good in an area like California, and it saves homeowners money. Bakersfield District Manager…
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‘Cash for Grass’ program has transformed 2,000 lawns in Napa
Photo: A pedestrian walks past the Learning Garden at Las Flores Community Center in Napa on Tuesday. Nick Otto, Register Over the weekend, the UC Master Gardeners hosted a workshop at Napa’s Las Flores Learning Garden, which opened last summer, focusing on creating drought-resistant gardens suited to survive the seasons — and fluctuating water levels — in…
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Water Districts Aim To Go Greener By Cutting Out Ornamental Grass
Though recent snow and rainfall have certainly improved drought conditions, California water officials still want to make every drop of water count. That means cutting out the watering of decorative grass — also known as non-functional turf — frequently landscaped at traffic medians or office parking lots. Decorative grass is becoming a bigger problem for…
