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Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Grist, and produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. It appears here as part of the ...

If mowing the lawn is getting you down, it might be time to ditch your exotic buffalo, couch or kikuyu grass and switch to a native alternative. Native grasses are usually lower maintenance, need far ...

The recent push to help pollinators via home gardens focuses largely on shrinking lawns and replacing them with colorful meadows, wildflowers and native plants. But there’s another key element that’s ...

For many of us, the world we live in has become so complex and fast-paced that we seek out ways to relax and recharge. Perhaps, in response to this, one of the new trends in contemporary landscaping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The edge between two homeowners' lawns shows a distinct difference between the common lawn grass, left, and John Ellis' lawn of ...

The wide-open vistas of the Texas High Plains weren’t always cotton fields and center-pivots, they were once carpeted in shortgrass prairie, a hardy mix of native grasses. Today, re-establishing and ...