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Lose The Lawn Encourages Environmental Health Improvements

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Middlebrook Gardens has launched a new green gardening program. This will help home-dwellers switch from water-wasting, cookie-cutter lawns to beautiful, efficient and economical native gardens.

Middlebrook Gardens, the award-winning garden design and build firm specialise in California native and sustainable landscaping. They have recently announced the creation its Lose The Lawn program.

Lose The Lawn is a marketing and public outreach campaign focusing on suburban, urban and rural American homeowners and dwellers. The program extols the benefits of switching from water-guzzling cookie-cutter lawns to more natural, efficient and aesthetically unique options, and provides options on how to go about the switch.

Lose The Lawn is founded in ecological principles. A natural home garden design requires less water, no chemicals, less labor and brings wild life, such as songbirds and other pollinators, back to neighborhood yards. Lose The Lawns natural gardens are affordable, quickly installed and easily understandable for the typical American home dweller.

Alrie Middlebrook, president of Middlebrook Gardens made an apt environmental observation. If you want to do something positive for the future of our children, if you want to save money, save water and bring wildlife back to your neighborhood, replace your water guzzling and back-breaking lawn with a natural garden today!

Lose the lawn works with local schools. In order to promote these ideas neighborhood by neighborhood Lose the Lawn offers to work with local high school students in communities throughout the region. Learn about home garden design and ecology at the same time!

Students from local high schools can become sales representatives through their schools participation in the program. A percentage of the contract sale goes directly to the local school and to the student who persuaded him/her to Lose the Lawn! This provides incentive to individual students and gives money to schools to establish a work/learn program continuing after the campaign moves to other neighborhoods. Students will learn sales, marketing, develop new work skills, and learn about native plants and ecology-based gardening. People in the neighborhood will benefit in many ways.

For more information, please visit www.LoseTheLawn.com.

Middlebrook Gardens is an award-winning garden design and building firm located in San Jose, California. An innovator in the use of native plants and sustainable landscaping technology and practices, Middlebrook Gardens is fundamentally altering garden design and construction by creating beautiful gardens reflecting the natural ecology of the region.