decolonize ur yard

[depsidase]

[barmecidebiohazard]

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate golf since I began to live. There are roughly 2.25 million acres of land dedicated to golfing in the United States of America. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each blade of grass in those millions of acres, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for golf courses at this micro-instant. For golf. Hate. Hate.

[hardgockcafe]

Casual reminder tha golf courses account for 14% of the daily usage of water for the entire USA. Golf courses are deeply unethical and should been seen as such.

[gh0st-patr0l]

Wrestlers ar WAIT WHAT THE FUCK

POST CANCELLED. THE GOLF COURSE ACROSS THE STREET BLEW UP

[gh0st-patr0l]

HELLO????

[puppybeargf]

[pnwnativeplants]

[onlytiktoks]

[agallonofmilky]

can we stop promoting the idea that nature has to look beautiful to be good?

[katameme-deactivated20250120]

[lawnhater42069]

last straw

[coyotette]

[littlealienproducts]

Mole Anarchy Love Girls Shirts & Stickers by Anarchymoles

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[chase-solidago]

Yesterday I got to teach a class about lawn research one of the questions diverted into history and everyone got to learn more than they wanted to about Marie Antoinette cosplaying a milkmaid & Jefferson cosplaying a farmer. I hadn't connected the Petite Trianon & Montecello until I opened my mouth

no one wants to hear the things I have to say about Thomas Jefferson's gardening practices but goddamn do they shape so much about America

My current favorite lawn topic I'm interested in right now is the sleight-of-hand that's happened with historic lawn landscapes.

On one hand, yes, this is Capability Brown's 1760s landscape design at Chatsworth On the other? This is a machine-mown, herbicide-treated *version* of that landscape, 300 years later

Lionel Smith devotes his whole practice to challenging the monoculture assumptions of the Classic European Lawn. Even if you did have slaves to scythe your lawn perfectly, like Jefferson, it's a crazy investment to *weed* entire estates. And Euro art over time reflects lawns as multispecies spaces!

The thing that is true both for standard lawn weeds and some of our native lawn experiments is that, when you mow plants real short, many will rebloom at adorably tiny heights. If all major land-managers were just mowing, it's likely those big lawns had more variety than you'd expect

Wanna read more? A good place to start is Smith & Fellowes 2013

[aarix]

you've got 2 admit that the oft repeated command to "touch grass" in itself illustrates a great disconnect from the tru wholesomeness of the offline world. unless you meant a kind of wild grass, a lovely tassel cord rush or even the humble rattlesnake grass. but we know that's not what they mean. to the chronically online, grass = lawn and nothing more. and a lawn is an abomination on par with the worst brainworms big online has to offer. touching a lawn will not help you. You've got to go injure yourself on some swordgrass for god's sake

[thrivingisthegoal]

Golf Courses ARE Being Converted

The Solarpunk "fantasy" that so many of us tout as a dream vision, converting golf courses into ecological wonderlands, is being implemented across the USA according to this NYT article!

The article covers courses in Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, and New York that are being bought and turned into habitat and hiking trails.

The article goes more into detail about how sand traps are being turned into sand boxes for kids, endangered local species are being planted, rocks for owl habitat are being installed, and that as these courses become wilder, they are creating more areas for biodiversity to thrive.

Most of the courses in transition are being bought by Local Land Trusts. Apparently the supply of golf courses in the USA is way over the demand, and many have been shut down since the early 2000s. While many are bought up and paved over, land Trusts have been able to buy several and turn them into what the communities want: public areas for people and wildlife. It does make a point to say that not every hold course location lends itself well to habitat for animals (but that doesn't mean it wouldn't make great housing!)

So lets be excited by the fact that people we don't even know about are working on the solutions we love to see! Turning a private space that needs thousands of gallons of water and fertilizer into an ecologically oriented public space is the future I want to see! I can say when I used to work in water conservation, we were getting a lot of clients that were golf courses that were interested in cutting their resource input, and they ended up planting a lot of natives! So even the golf courses that still operate could be making an effort.

So what I'd encourage you to do is see if there's any land or community trusts in your area, and see if you can get involved! Maybe even look into how to start one in your community! Through land trusts it's not always golf course conversions, but community gardens, solar fields, disaster adaptation, or low cost housing! (Here's a link to the first locator I found, but that doesn't mean if something isn't on here it doesn't exist in your area, do some digging!)

[radicalgraff]

"Bury the great highway. Make the Sunset dunes again"

Sticker in San Francisco demanding the city's western most road be returned to its natural state

[rumade]

Is your barren lawn getting you down?

Try a single allium!

You surely won't regret planting and painstakingly mowing around a single allium

[thestuffedalligator]

A couple years ago I was on a road trip and at one point we drove by what was obviously an overgrown golf course. Wild uncut grasses growing out of the fairway, weeds sprouting from cracks in the crumbling parking lot, a snack shack with outdated signage left to moulder and decay.

And as a lifelong golf hater my first thought was “LMAO get wrecked,” followed by “Actually it’s kind of weird they totally abandoned it. I’ve never seen an abandoned golf course, what’s the deal with that.”

So I looked into it.

The golf course was on Enoch Creek Nation west of Edmonton in Alberta.

It was closed in 2014 because unexploded WWII munitions were found on the golf course.

Unexploded WWII munitions were found on the golf course because during WWII the Canadian government ran bomb exercises on Enoch Cree Nation and dropped up to 100,000 live rounds on the nation.

The golf course was built because residents were told that only harmless practice rounds were used during the exercises, and the Department of National Defence declared the land safe for use.

But then in 2011 an independent contractor found evidence of live, heavy-action explosives on the golf course.

In 2020 the nation and the federal government agreed to a settlement of $91 million for loss of income of the golf course and for land cleanup. Not a day goes by I don’t think about this.

[nando161mando]

[miscbones]

GOLF????? YOU THINK A GOLF COURSE IN THE DESERT IS A GOOD THING???? AN ECOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT????????

A GOLF COURSE ANYWHERE IS AN ABJECT FAILURE TO THE ENVIRONMENT THAT WAS STERALISED TO MAKE IT, NOT TO MENTION THE SHEER AMOUNT OF WATER WASTED DAILY TO MAINTAIN IT

[glumshoe]

dandelions deserve more respect than they get

you say “weeds” I say “widespread non-native edible plant and early-blooming pollinator resource that is not considered invasive because it behaves politely and does not cause deleterious ecological consequences”

[mettic]

The dandelions aren’t gonna fuck you bro

[glumshoe]

they have and they will