Summary: In a survey leading to its 2018 Master Landscape Plan, the majority of Kendal at Oberlin residents supported converting at least some of its 30 acres of “manicured lawns and landscape beds” to a “Nature Preserve.” Environmental sustainability was clearly a driver for many residents, to reduce greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from the gas-powered mowers and the noise pollution and labor costs as well. We ran a successful trial of replacing a small area of lawn with Low-Mow grass.

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