Here at Western Turf Farms, we believe that a move towards more environmentally-friendly sod is the right way to go. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’ll be the first to grow and harvest 50 acres of the first-ever certified drought-tolerant sod in British Columbia.
Built of glass, steal, and concrete, urban cities were made to “last”, not to grapple with the ebbs and flows of climate change. Increasing temperatures and greater precipitation are felt more intensely in the concrete jungles where heat is deflected and […]
Struggling with Chafer Beetle damage (or trying to avoid it)? Good news! There’s a solution: Tall Fescue.
Chafer beetles are undoubtedly the bane of Vancouver Lawns. With raccoons and other animals tearing up turf to root out the […]
Whether it was the local soccer stars tearing up the field, golfers hacking at it the green with their 5-irons or revellers kicking it old school at the music festival, the result is the same. And you need replacement turf, immediately.
The next event is just hours […]
Photo Credit: Phil Roeder
There’s a drought in British Columbia and you’ve no doubt heard about the municipal regulations banning watering your lawn. ‘Water shaming’ is now a […]
It could be a hot, dry summer – and putting our low-water sod on your home lawn can help you weather a perfect storm of climate change and government regulation. Are you ready for the new water restrictions in your area that have […]
A little while back, we wrote about how natural grass turf beats artificial turf for sports fields. Are we a little biased? Sure. But it seems players, sports field superintendents and Forbes Magazine agrees with us. The only reason there’s any controversy at all seems to […]
Noticed some unwanted guests in your neighbourhood? Lurking just a few inches beneath your Vancouver lawn there might be a menace squirming in your topsoil, chewing through your root system of your turf and grass. From New Westminster to Burnaby, Richmond and the western edge […]
In the ongoing turf war over natural grass vs. artificial grass on our sports fields, the natural turf side scored a big win this week: a report in the Star Tribune about a FIFA-commissioned survey of soccer players shows 77 percent of the athletes […]
If you’re a professional maintenance person in charge of tending to a municipal lawn, public park, roadside, city boulevards, sidewalks or other kinds of green space, you may already finding it difficult to keep up.
Week in and week out, that grass just keeps growing – and you’ve got […]
