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Tag: Lawns

Posted inEditor's Picks, Sustainability

These cities coordinate to save water, a model for parched Western areas

by Steve Crane Aug 11, 2023Aug 11, 2023

TUCSON — There are no lush green lawns among the rows of single-family homes that line a quiet boulevard a mile west of the University of Arizona campus. Instead, small lizards scurry across gravel to the shade of cacti, shrubs and trees native to the Southwestern desert, as cicadas drone and backyard chickens cluck in […]

This yard in Mesa was converted to desert landscaping under the city’s Grass-to-Xeriscape incentive program. Photo taken Sept. 7, 2022. (Photo by Samantha Chow/Cronkite News)
Posted inEditor's Picks, Next Gen, Sustainability

Valley homeowners take advantage of xeriscape incentives

by Adnan Alam Dec 1, 2022Dec 1, 2022

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