Reduce Your Lawn Day is May 20th

Reduce Your Lawn Day is a national call to action to inspire transformations that turn underutilized yard space into thriving ecosystems with simple planting projects. Because small changes, multiplied across thousands of yards, create a real impact.

Join us! Take the pledge and be part of a movement where collective action leads to lasting change.

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Reduce Your Lawn Day - May 20th
Black Eyed Susans, Echinacea, Sulphur Cosmos, and more in a front yard garden
This New York front yard garden features Black Eyed Susans, Echinacea, Sulphur Cosmos, and more.
This Vermont couple replaced over an acre of lawn with wildflowers for blooms, more beauty, and more pollinators!
This Vermont couple replaced over an acre of lawn with wildflowers for blooms, beauty, and pollinators.

Learn More About Reduce Your Lawn Day

Learn more about the benefits of less lawn and get ideas for easy planting projects!

4 Reasons To Reduce Your Lawn
· 10 Easy Planting Projects
· 4 Ways To Support
· 5 Not-So-Fun Lawn Facts
· Photo Gallery
· Partners

2024 Reduce Your Lawn Day Success

4 Reasons To Reduce Your Lawn

Cut Back Your Turf & Increase Your Flower Power

1. Create Healthy Habitat. Traditional turfgrass is a dead zone for wildlife. Reducing your lawn rebuilds habitat for birds, butterflies, fireflies, and more.

2. Reduce Pollution. Less mowing means cleaner air, less noise, and fewer spills from gas equipment.

3. Remove Harmful Chemicals. Skip fertilizers and pesticides that harm waterways, soil, pollinators, and people.

4. Feel Better. Gardening reduces stress and boosts well-being—get outside and dig in!

10 Easy Planting Projects To Reduce Your Lawn

Reducing a turfgrass lawn is one of the easiest ways to make a yard better for pollinators, people, and the planet. Need inspiration? Try these:

  1. Remove grass along your driveway and plant an easy-to-grow wildflower border.
  2. Plant easy-to-grow perennials around your mailbox.
  3. Flip the strip with a low-growing mini-meadow.
  4. Add a flower bed of native flowers for a pollinator pit stop.
  5. Expand beds using groundcovers.
  6. Swap hard-to-trim edges for creeping groundcovers.
  7. Build a raised bed for a cut flower garden.
  8. Remove fence-line grass and sow wildflowers.
  9. Create a bird-friendly corner with native plants.
  10. Flank your walkway with blooms to boost curb appeal.

Ready To Dig In? See Our Guide: How To Remove Your Lawn

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A wildflower meadow of annual Sunflowers, Zinnias, Cosmos, and more bloom outside of a greenhouse.
A meadow of annual Sunflowers, Zinnias, Cosmos, and more outside a greenhouse.
A wildflower meadow filled with blue flowers.
Say goodbye to a boring lawn—click for ideas to fill your yard with flowers.

4 Ways To Support Reduce Your Lawn Day

  1. Share your photos on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or X with #ReduceYourLawn or #ReduceYourLawnDay. Or submit photos here.
  2. Join the Reduce Your Lawn Day Facebook Group.
  3. Tell your community—share this page with local groups, reps, Master Gardener & Extension programs.
  4. Download and print the Yard Sign or Poster.

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5 Not-So-Fun Lawn Facts

  1. Traditional turf lawns were popularized in the Victorian era with the first lawnmower—time for a fresh take!
  2. Turfgrass is the single largest irrigated crop in the U.S.
  3. Americans use ~800 million gallons of gasoline yearly in lawn equipment, spending over $2.4B.
  4. Gas-powered mowers contribute up to 5% of U.S. air pollution.
  5. There are 40+ million acres of lawn in the U.S.—the most widely grown “crop.”

We can make a real difference by working together. Put your yard in the fight for a better world!

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Reduce Your Lawn Photo Gallery

Share photos with #ReduceYourLawn or #ReduceYourLawnDay—your photos may be featured here.

Helpful Resources

Meadowscaping Learning Center

American Meadows
Meadowscaping Learning Center

Learn how to grow a wildflower meadow or natural garden, and shop for seeds, plants, and bulbs.

Groundcover Revolution by Kathy Jentz

Groundcover Revolution By Kathy Jentz

Choose the right plants for your conditions with this helpful guide.

High Country Gardens Sustainability Learning Center

High Country Gardens
Sustainable Backyard Learning Center

Learn xeriscaping and sustainable lawn alternatives, and shop waterwise plants.