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This woman wants to destroy your lawn, and replace it with something better
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- Title
- This Woman Wants to Destroy Your Lawn
- Authors
- Peter Andrey Smith
- Published
- Jan 20 2023
- Word count
- 2710 words
Encouraging biodiversity in residential lawns is such a critical environmental initiative! People are always going to take up space, and realistically many people are always going to live in suburban or rural places with "inefficient" land uses like lawns. I love that there are people and organizations dedicated to improving the sustainability of our development patterns in little ways like this. Unlike reforming municipal zoning ordinances or acquiring funding for major infrastructure renovations—which are often Herculean hurdles even for activist-minded communities—planting a greater variety of native species on your own property and adopting more healthy gardening habits is specific, realistic, and inexpensive. That's the essence of hands-on advocacy work.
Even in an area that is not drought prone, it's kinda depressing to see the lengths people go to to maintain a perfectly manicured lawn that is only ever used for the dog to poop on.
Multiply that by the quantity of fertilizers, sprinklers, and pesticides being used.
Just embrace the dandelions people. Bees love them.