How to Use Your Landscaping Irrigation Smarter This Summer

An extreme close up of a drip irrigation pipe in dark brown soil and surrounded by leaves.

Summer in Sonoma County is predictable in one way: it’s dry, it’s hot, and it makes you irrigation system work overtime. For homeowners across Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Petaluma, and beyond, that combination puts real pressure on both your landscape and your water bill. The good news is that most outdoor water waste isn’t inevitable, it’s […]

AB 1572: What Property Owners Need to Address Now

A bright green lawn with multiple sprinklers spraying lots of water onto it.

California’s water conservation requirements continue to evolve, and Assembly Bill 1572 (AB 1572) represents one of the most significant landscape-related regulations affecting commercial properties, institutions, and HOAs in recent years. AB 1572 establishes a phased prohibition on using potable water to irrigate nonfunctional turf on many commercial, industrial, institutional, and homeowner association properties throughout California. […]