has long been the cry of environmentally minded gardeners. With good reason: when maintained in the traditional style, lawns function as biological deserts, providing no benefit to pollinators or other wildlife while serving as a disproportionate source of water and air pollution. Yet the general public has staunchly resisted this campaign, not eliminating but rather steadily expanding the area of greensward so that it now covers more than an estimated 40 million acres of the United
