Kentucky Blue Grass

The word lawn as it is used to day, actually didn't even exist until the 15 hundreds. To maintain a lawn without the help of grazing animals was a sign that you were rich enough to hire lots of gardeners and also to own land that did nothing but look pretty. The quality of lawns in neighborhoods became a proxy for the quality of the neighborhood itself. We use ten times more fertilizer and pesticide per acre than is used in corn or wheat fields. Green year round requires around 200 gallons of water per person per day. Almost all of the water shooting from sprinklers is treated drinking water. Every year, 12 % of the materials that end up in us are grass clippings