Goodbye to grass? More Americans embracing ‘eco-friendly’ lawns and gardens

Photo caption: A resident of West Liberty, Iowa, mows his lawn in 2011. Photo credit: Reuters / Jessica Rinaldi. Article by Julia Rubin, AP. PBS – May 6, 2022. 

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — LeighAnn Ferrara is transforming her small suburban yard from grass bordered by a few shrubs into an anti-lawn — a patchwork of flower beds, vegetables and fruit trees. It didn’t happen all at once, says the mother of two young kids. “We started smothering small sections of the lawn each year with cardboard and mulch and planting them, and by now the front yard is probably three-quarters planting beds,” she says. […]

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