Baby boomers are driving the population boom in a three-county cluster north and west of Florida’s Walt Disney World. Collectively, Lake, Marion and Sumter counties — whose major cities are Ocala and The Villages — were home to a little over 788,000 people in 2015, U.S. Census Bureau estimates show. Over […]
Economic and population growth in one part of Central Texas continues to march ahead thanks to one of the world’s largest military installations. Fort Hood, an Army complex that encompasses 340 square miles (bigger than the city of Dallas, TX) and employs about 37,000 military personnel, pumps billions of dollars […]
Hillary Clinton hopes to move into the White House for the second time. In the meantime, though, she and her husband — former President Bill Clinton — live in a white house in Chappaqua, NY. They also own a red house in Washington, DC. Collectively, the market value of the […]
We love our bedrooms and bathrooms. In 2015, the share of new single-family homes sold that had at least four bedrooms and at least three bathrooms hit a more than three-decade high. And one expert suggests this bedroom and bathroom trend is being driven by a fundamental change in American […]
Simply put, designer, author and TV personality Nate Berkus says your home should tell the story of who you are and be a collection of what you love. But since each of us has a unique story to tell, that story unfolds in myriad ways. One person’s collection of cherished […]
Here’s a mind-blowing stat: In 2014, American adults collectively spent more than 2.3 billion minutes on lawn care and gardening. Many of the millions of Americans who do yardwork don’t mind putting in that time, though. An online poll commissioned in 2015 by the National Association of Landscape Professionals found […]
With organic food sales in the U.S. soaring to nearly $36 billion in 2014 and the organic category now accounting for close to 5 percent of all U.S. food sales, organic farmers are reaping considerable benefits. A survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service found that […]
How much of a sting is the U.S. honeybee population feeling? The National Resources Defense Council warns of a deadly crisis harming honeybees and their bee relatives — insects that pollinate our gardens and our crops. In fact, a survey by the Bee Informed Partnership shows 23 percent of managed […]
The “magic of homeownership.” That’s how Julián Castro, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), described one of the pillars of the American Dream during a speech at the 2015 convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association. “President Johnson once said that owning a home is more […]
Here at LawnStarter, we’re big fans of the Washington DC metro area. It’s where our company started and we still mow hundreds of lawns here today. Between the rich history, four full seasons, occasional senator sightings and our beloved (though perpetually dissapointing) sports teams, it’s no wonder millions of people […]