I used to be a drug dealer
"Hey Brian, this sounds a little out of character of you", I'm sure I will hear. Hold on until I finish the rest of the story because there is more to it. I'm actually an All-American kid, played football, Eagle Scout, served in the Air Force and on foreign soil...
Social Shaming on Water, a New Low
I'm sure that you have seen it recently, the articles in the media encouraging neighbors to rat on their neighbors for wasting water. I hate to use the word rat as they are pretty cool animals, so I will not depict them in a negative light but you get the meaning so I...
So, it’s going to be a wet year…a.k.a. everything you will need to know about water this year
It's been raining a lot lately. I think I am pushing over 8 inches at my house this month already. This will have implications moving forward. The immediate good news is that we get a lot of free water, devoid of chlorine and full of nitrogen (when it is lightning)....
The ABC’s of the Biological Method (What you need to know about how you are getting screwed by your lawn)
I continuously seek ways to help people understand the Biological method. Doing so, I would like to break this down a little bit more, so listen up! Unlike a Synthetic fertility program that only provides inorganic nutrients, Our Regenerative Biological Fertility...
“I Don’t Like That Natural Stuff”
I wanted to address a comment I recently received, not from a customer but from one of my own neighbors. One of my neighbors that lives down the street a few days ago stopped by while I was sprawled out on my lawn working on one of my new robotic mowers that I just...
If You Want To Destroy a Lawn and Spend a LOT of Money Doing It, Do This…
If you want a really hard time with your lawn, be sure to do the following. No, you probably will not experience total failure but you will set your lawn up for a lot of stress with areas that will give you problems along the way. Most of your defeat will come in the...
The Three Pronged Approach with Biological
The critical difference between the synthetic and the biological approaches are that in the synthetic approach the grass plant is only receives a few of the many elements that it requires all while killing off the soil biology. In the biological method, the soil is...
Avoid lawn dehydration this spring, now you have an option!
This month you have a choice whether or not you want to face a dehydrated soil before the growing season. This causes a lot of problems and is completely avoidable. We have a solution for the dilemma of irrigation automation in early spring without incurring...
2023 and Lawn Automation
2023 will be a remarkable year for lawn automation. The rise of lawn robot automation will fill the need for labor and help keep the price tag of maintaining a lawn lower. The current labor shortage can also be solved by mitigating this problem with automation. The...
Do You Enjoy What You Do?
A couple of decades ago, I ran into someone I hadn’t seen in years at a high school reunion. We did the usual small talk — family, life, time passing faster than any of us expected. Then, mid-conversation, she asked me a question that completely caught me off guard:...
The Disappearing American Lawn (and the Automation Lifeline)
For most of modern American history, the lawn has been the great green handshake. It’s the first thing your neighbor sees. It’s where your kids learn to run. It’s where you throw a football, grill on a Friday night, and feel—however briefly—like you’ve got your life...
No Glory in Suffering for Suffering’s Sake
My Dear Grandson, I take pen in hand with a tenderness that surprises an old man, for though my hair has turned to snow and my joints speak plainly of the passing years, my heart is still stirred when I think of you—so young, so earnest, and so given to strong notions...