Ohio Turfgrass Foundation

After accepting the opportunity to write a history of the Ohio Turfgrass Foundation, I drove through several local suburbs to take a fresh look at some of the wonderful lawns and gardens which we take for granted in 21st century America. With a new perspective I saw in a different light what I had come to accept without thought: Our communities exhibit an incredible sea of green as neighborhood after neighborhood unfolds beautifully kept lawns, gardens, and park settings. It is a testimony to American ingenuity and hard work that across this broad continent and an array of climates, middle class families can grow a quality of grass only kings and queens could have engineered 200 years ago.