Lawn Outlaws
Producer Jeff Rice explores the whys and wherefores of our culture’s obsession with lawns, and Salt Lake City’s law that every house has to have one. His inquiry leads him from the savannas of humans’ early history to the homestead of Mormon pioneer Brigham Young to the front yards of some Salt Lake residents who are living outside the law.
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