Our story
Two towns in the Valley, one shrinking water supply.
Mountain House and Tracy sit at the dry edge of California's Central Valley. Our summers are long and hot, our rainfall is thin, and a growing share of our water has to be imported from far away — at rising cost and shrinking certainty.
Meanwhile, the single thirstiest thing in most yards is the lawn. A patch of grass we mow, fertilize, and pour thousands of gallons into every year — often just to keep up appearances.
ZeroLawn started with a simple idea: what if replacing that grass were easy, beautiful, and free to start? We walk your yard, match you to a rebate, and help you build a landscape that fits where we actually live. One yard at a time, we're making our towns more water-resilient.
“A lawn is the only crop we grow just to cut it down. In a place like ours, that water is too precious to pour on grass.
— The ZeroLawn Project
