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The Green, Green Grass of Home
By Katie Lamar Jackson | March 2009

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Looking for a low-input, sustainable, environmentally friendly way to care for your lawn? You can try goats—they’ll keep the lawn trimmed and provide fertilizer at the same time—but they may not be ideal for many settings. If you want to have your lawn and sustainability, too, there are some reasonable non-goat options.

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