They grassed me up, cakesniffers.

This was unbelievably easy to do and will prove to be such a useful technique.

You start with a plane, click particle buttons, and change various values and click some buttons and you have some hair strands. Then just adding green for the base and a grass texture.

The one on the right is with tangent shading off, and the left with it on. When this is on the lighting hits the back of each blade and transmits it through, making it darker.