The Lawn Goodbye

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We sunbathe, picnic, and play sports on them. Our bare feet seem inexorably drawn to them. And for many of us, they’re the first thing we see when we step out the front door: lawns. It’s no surprise they cover 40 million acres in the U.S., or that we spend more caring for them than the entire GDP of Costa Rica.

— Arnie Cooper

Artist Fritz Haeg is trying to change the way we look at our lawns and illustrate how we might make better use of them. Michael and Jennifer Foti’s once unproductive front yard gets a makeover.

Photo by: Fritz Haeg

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