Cale Bigelow and Jada Powlen attended the 49th Virginia Tech Turf Field Day in Blacksburg, Virginia. Jada presented on a collaborative field research project related to her Ph.D. dissertation examining the effects of planting cool-season grass blends and mixtures with superior resistance to the summer lawn disease, brown patch. The results of these studies demonstrate a clear advantage to selecting and planting grasses with improved disease tolerance across a wide geographic area. The over-arching goal is to be able to maintain high quality, persistent more sustainable lawns in the cool-humid region with fewer inputs.