Kill your lawn, get cash

The Los Angeles County Waterworks districts of Malibu, Antelope Valley, Kagel Canyon, Acton, and Val Verde are offering cash for killing…lawns that is. The Districts will give residents a dollar for every square foot of lawn they take out and replace with drought-resistant landscaping. The per-property limit is 5,000 square feet. The County estimates that every square foot of grass people change ...

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Beef over front yard beefsteaks

It's not a dog barking at night, says the bemused Northbrook gardener, so why would anyone complain about her tomato garden? But those beefsteaks are growing in the front yard -- and in a community where many lawns could be used as putting greens, it's been noticed. "We started to get calls from neighbors," said Thomas Poupard, Northbrook 's director of planning, adding that the garden doesn't ...

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