Replace it with a low-water California native yard — and we'll find the rebates that help pay for it.
It starts with a quick call — no one shows up at your door uninvited.
Send a quick email with your city and rough yard size. We reply within 48 hours to schedule a video or phone chat.
If it's a fit, we visit, measure, and sketch a low-water plan with you.
We track down the local programs that help pay for the conversion.
A gardener converts your lawn — natives, drip irrigation, and mulch.
A yard that looks better, costs less, and sips water instead of gulping it.
Plants that evolved here — they thrive on rainfall, feed pollinators, and stay beautiful through the dry months.
Your sprinklers convert to drip — water goes straight to roots, not the sidewalk. Up to 70% less outdoor water.
Mulch locks in moisture and blocks weeds. Paths, boulders, and rain gardens make it a space you actually use.
We'll do the math with you — before you spend a dollar.
Here's what converting a single 250 sq ft patch of lawn actually does for the environment — every year.
California swings between drought and flood, and the dry years are getting longer. Most of the water our towns use travels hundreds of miles through pumps and canals before it reaches a single tap — and in a drought, those deliveries get cut first.
Half of a typical home's water goes to the yard, and most of that goes to grass nobody walks on. That makes your lawn the single biggest environmental upgrade your household can make — no lifestyle change required.
And it compounds: every converted yard makes the neighborhood more drought-proof and shows the next neighbor what's possible. Ten yards on one street is a quarter million gallons a year.
Real yards, real water, real savings — updated as we go.
Savings estimates combine lower water bills (local rates) with reduced lawn upkeep — mowing service, fertilizer, and sprinkler repairs a converted area no longer needs. Updated after each completed conversion.
Started by local students — focused on our own towns first.
ZeroLawn is a summer passion project started by local students who think our towns can lead on water. We're not a business — we're neighbors helping neighbors make the switch, and pointing you to the programs that make it affordable.
We're organizing ZeroLawn as a nonprofit. If you're a local business or neighbor who'd like to sponsor part of a conversion — helping a household cover what rebates don't — we'd love to hear from you: hello@zerolawn.org
A student-led nonprofit initiative turning California's thirstiest yards into water-smart, living landscapes.
A California where neighborhoods lead on water — where the default yard is a thriving native landscape, not a thirsty lawn, and every household is part of the solution to the state's water future.
To help families replace water-guzzling lawns with beautiful, low-water native yards — making the switch simple and affordable through rebates and sponsorships, while giving students real, measurable ways to serve their community.
Local students building something real for our towns.
Founded ZeroLawn and sets its vision. Builds the technology behind it — the website, the yard-design tools, and the data systems that track every gallon saved — and leads all development.
Runs the organization — partnerships, sponsorships, community outreach, and the operations that get yards converted on the ground.
ZeroLawn is run by students, for our community — and we need more hands. Volunteers help with yard walks, planting days, door-to-door outreach, and tracking the water we save. We log and verify your hours for school, NHS, CSF, and scholarship applications.
Tell us your city and rough yard size — we'll reply within 48 hours to schedule your virtual call. No forms, no phone tag, no pressure.