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Get Off My Lawn

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Each year Americans spend 20 trillion gallons of water on lawn care. Turfgrass is one of America's largest crops, but it doesn't feed us. So why do we go to all this trouble for something that doesn't make sense economically or ecologically? We'll find out how the aesthetic of the perfect lawn became so deeply rooted in the American psyche.

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