Have you ever seen a lawn green up the last week of March/first week of April? Without having applied any nutrients on it? Chances are you have not, ever. What is the significance of this happening and how does it happen? I am getting ahead of myself, let me explain...

If you were not aware, this year marks 30 years since the first robotic mower it the market. Why am I just now hearing about this you ask? Well that is a very loaded question that revolves around cheap energy, complacency, and failure to innovate as well as adopt but...

Do you want to unlock the right way to manage a lawn successfully? It is real simple, adopt an organic biological system. What will this do? It will replace the traditional system that uses synthetic fertilizers that cause all of the problems that you associate with...

Who can you trust these days? To quote a line form one of my favorite movies, "The Big Short", Dr. Michael Burry, the guy who shorted the housing market prior to the 2008 financial crises, portrayed by Christian Bale, states that, "before a bubble bursting there are...

This year is a good year to get ahead with your lawn. You know that thing you love to hate but should be a joy and thrill to own? Why does it has to be like that? Well that is a function of three major things: very poor soils that are abused by modern man-made...

Anyone who was alive and breathing in 1983 will remember the Styx hit song, Mr. Roboto, off of the album, Kilroy was here. The song was a satirical look of futuristic robotic life, as it tells the story of a robot imprisoned in a factory, who sings about wanting to be...

Do you feel like you are being held hostage by your lawn? Does it seem like you are spending more money with less results? Are you tired of sky-water bills that never alleviate the heat stress in your lawn? Well you not alone. The reason you feel like this is because...

I have noticed a trend about grass over the past few years that is a little disturbing and I wanted to chime in and provide my opinion as there are several objections against having a lawn. "My lawn takes way too much money to keep up with"  This is probably the most...

Grass is very trustworthy, it always tells the truth if you know what you are looking at. When things are not going so well and even when things seem to be looking up you can easily examine certain metrics both visible and invisible. It is pretty easy to identify...

Return of the Carbon Brigade (and the Oxygen Airlift) In the first dispatch from the Front Range lawn battlefield, we established a few hard truths: The soil here is not “challenging.” It’s actively hostile. After 120+ soil reports in the last five years, the pattern...

A lighthearted field report from the battle of “Why does my grass hate me?” If you’ve ever stared at your lawn and thought, “I water it, I feed it, I compliment it… why is it still acting like a moody teenager?” — congratulations. You live where the soil is basically...

There’s a difference between someone who uses synthetics… and someone who worships them. Most people aren’t villains. They’re busy. They inherited a method. They’ve been told the same script for years: “Put this down, spray that, water like crazy, repeat forever.” If...