By Seairra Sheppard, Strong Towns
One of Strong Towns’ core insights on local food is “let people grow food where it makes sense.” This includes letting residents grow their own produce gardens in the front yard.
By Vaidila Satvika, Resilience
It's an amazing experiment to leave a lawn alone for a couple months and to watch what happens. Nature comes back fast. Trees, flowers, and all the critters return.
By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening
Recently I’ve learned to see some good in the approximately 40 million acres of lawn that engulf the residential landscape in the US. Caveats remain, serious ones, which I’ll get to in a bit; but the truth is, your lawn, my lawn, that of the business down the street or the corporate campus in a nearby suburb, serves as a carbon sink of modestly robust proportions.
By Emily Helminen, Yardfarmers blog
What’s better than tearing out your water guzzling, time-consuming lawn and replacing it with more sustainable, more appropriate plants?
By Katie Valentine, Climate Progress
The southwestern U.S., an already arid region of the country, has been parched by droughts over the last few years.
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
We burn 800 million gallons of gas mowing lawns, and statisticians say that we spill 17 million gallons every year just refilling our lawn machines. If so, that beats the Exxon Valdez spill of 10 million gallons.