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My entire yard is a permaculture garden that feeds our family if five as well as my direct relatives families. It’s about 1/4 acre and includes a 20x50 greenhouse as well as lot ls of fruit and nut trees, bushes and native species ss well as two chicken coops (one for laying one for meat), rabbits and quail. We sell our extra at the end of our driveway to cover seed costs which are insane now. We don’t use any machinery and everything is no till and regenerative meaning we make and provide all our own inputs.aside from greenhouse plastic which we can’t seem to avoid.
This just means that you will make a great fossil some day.
The overwhelming majority of people are too lazy and uninterested in learning to manage a garden
Everyone hates on golf, but I suspect we could play golf - or at least a very similar sport - on less artifical terrain.
There’s literally a club for playing on sand, you’re telling me you can’t make a golf course out of clover or dandelions or whatever? I call bullshit.
Yeah, I mean can’t they just make a course out of whatever natural terrain exists and then adjust the par accordingly? If the terrain makes it challenging, then it’s a high par.
But then the losers who golf would be gatekept from driving caddies around a grassy field and wasting taxpayer money?
Upgrade to ATV! Extreme Golf! Sounds way cooler anyway!
That also sounds way more fun than what golf is now.
I don’t see why not. If we had public golf courses, free for anyone to use, that were designed to minimize ecological harm, and incorporated other uses for the space (hiking trails, picnic tables, etc.) then I think it might actually be a really good use of land.
Also it’s an easier sell. Instead of telling people to stop doing something they like, you can encourage people to adopt healthier ways of engaging in their hobby.
My yard is a wildflower yard, and I’ve taken great pains to keep my dipshit neighbour from causing problems via the city
We just have to make it happen.
Making every yard a vegetable garden may be impractical, not everyone has the time or inclination or know how to grow vegetables. There should be a native trees/shrubs/ground cover starter pack list for each US region with plant-and-ignore native plants to replace invasive grasses like st Augustine and Bermuda grass.
Usually extension services in states have great resources for native planting etc.
Alternatively, depending on your preferences and financial situation, your HOA could do something useful for once and pay someone to care for all the veggies of the neighborhood.
It’s a matter of organisation, nothing more. All those useless, sad lawns could be beautiful places. Especially the one’s in the front.
Every effort matters, no matter how small.
Is there a neglected sidewalk island near your home? Plant rosemary and thyme plants.
Is there any water near your home? If not, find a shallow bowl at Goodwill, put some stones in it, and start a watering hole for insects, birds, and critters.
Volunteer to help plant trees and remove invasive species, pick up garbage from streams, maintain trails and green areas
These are all things we can do today or in small increments as time allows.
I feel like this makes it sound easier than it is. The powers that be won’t let us do these things. It is possible but it means evading or overcoming them.
I’m starting working on it! I’d like to have my whole yard permacultured. It’s just tough figuring out where to start!
I wanna get rid of the grass… but if I’m gonna have to do some digging it might as well wait till I can do that. Maybe I’ll look at trees tomorrow.
My friendly neighbors have a bunch of equipment but I’ll probably just rent a Bobcat or a mini-ex for a week.
No dig gardening is a method that can help you get rid of your grass without the effort of digging or renting equipment.
Thanks!
i get fined if i have a garden in my front yard unless the ground is covered by 50% or more “green”. its fucking dumb.
my lawn is even slightly out of the way and behind a short fence. its like the perfect spot for free food for everyone walking by.
Land of the freeeeee
Hear me out - divide your lawn into 1’ x 1’ sections and checker board that shit. Every other square is garden, every other is green lawn. It’ll be a bitch to mow, but it’s wonderfully petty
You can still work with that a bit. Basically you just want to have stuff other than just non-native turf grass. Even having clover mixed in makes your lawn not need fertilizer to stay green, and it has flowers that benefit insects. Dandelions and plantains can grow anywhere, and they both produce edible greens, and they basically show up on their own.
Your dictator doesn’t follow the rules. Why do you?
Because unlike the dictator, consequences can actually cripple a normal person’s life.
So can a death camp but that’s happening.
