Atherton Earth Day Festival Hosts Grass Mowing Competition Between Sheep And Robots

CBS San Francisco

April 22, 2024

On Sunday, Earth Day events were happening all over the Bay Area, but one of the most unusual was in the town of Atherton, where the effort to protect the planet boiled down to a tongue-in-cheek fight over the best way to mow a lawn.

At the Earth Day Festival in Atherton, they wanted to promote the benefits of using environmentally friendly lawn equipment. But that's where the friendliness ended. On the other side of the park, it was a bitter battle of A.I. versus ewes, sheep versus robot — put to a vote.

"This seems like it's funny and all jest. It's not," said Kenneth Frederick with the Atherton Environmental Committee. "It's very serious."

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