About the artists:
Blue Chevigny is a writer and former This American Life radio producer living in New York City.
Racing Green (Audio Story)
The lawn. It’s not just a grassy expanse or an environmental challenge. It’s a place of leisure and play that has spawned all manner of cultural phenomena, from lawn flamingos and backyard badminton to the sport of lawn mower racing.
On April 1, 1992, the U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association (USLMRA) held it’s first organized event in Grays Lake, Illinois. Today the sport boasts more than 150 annual races in more than twenty states.
Here radio producer Blue Chevigny investigates the sport’s
broad appeal and its distant connections to weekend yard work.
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Audio Story Two - The Cutting Edge: Conversations with some of the Midwests Top Lawn Experts (Audio Story)
For more than a century, scores of scientists, academics, groundskeepers and urban planners, have been thinking about lawns in the U.S. How to develop thicker lawns that stay greener longer? How to kill “weeds” without killing grass? Lately, however, that thinking has started to shift. Now the focus is more on issues of sustainability and how to care for lawns with fewer chemicals, less water, and less mowing.
Here radio producer Blue Chevigny checks in with a variety of Midwestern lawn experts to get the latest on what lawns are good for, bad for, and when and they might be replaced with more earth-friendly native plants.
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