My daughter is a beekeeper and she swears by honey as a way to combat hay fever. She says you need to get local honey--produced no more than 20 or 30 miles from your house--so you get the local pollen which you are probably having trouble with. She says to start eating a tablespoon of honey every day starting in January. By the time the flowers start to bloom, you'll have some resistance built up to the allergens. It can't hurt, that's for sure, and it certainly tastes better than Claritin or Benedryl.

Goats will mow your grass...but they love bushes, trees, and flowers even more than grass and will go to great lengths to get them instead. If what you have are brushy, steep hillsides or rocky terrain a Pygmy goat of two might be just the ticket. For your lawn a pet sheep would be a better choice, but you will still need portable fencing or a sturdy movable tether to keep the mower in the right place and away from other plantings...and a tolerance for free fertilizer chunks on your lawn!