#no lawns

[embryonikz]

☘️ Grass lawns waste time, pollute, and harm wildlife. Clover lawns need no mowing, help pollinators, enrich soil, and stay soft! 🍀

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Nightmare neighbor causes 73-year-old woman to be hit with $50 daily fines over her flourishing garden: ‘The city is in the wrong here’

"The board had offered to relocate some of the plants to the city park — not something they would do if they actually considered the plants

So, long story short--a Master Gardener who has been maintaining a native plant garden for years is now being harassed by a neighbor, with whom the city code enforcers sided, and she's facing daily fines if she doesn't turn at least half of her yard into grass lawn. Apparently the only plants that are allowed to grow higher than seven inches are those that are edible, useful, or decorative.

If you are at all ecologically aware, you know that grass lawns are essentially ecological wastelands. A monoculture of non-native grass, especially if it's sprayed with herbicides, fertilizers, and so forth, is not going to support much in the way of native wildlife. Moreover, it can be argued that native plants do fall under the allowable category of "useful" and "decorative", and some are even "edible."

The article above is dated from two days ago, but this apparently started last year. And I found an article in their local paper from this past July that says she's still fighting the city about it, plus it has a bunch of photos of her garden if you want to see what the fuss is all about. Do be aware that if you decide to contact the Prospect Code Enforcement Board, City Council, and/or Mayor with a polite note in support of her, the website only allows you to send five messages every hour and you can only message one person at a time.

ETA: I did hear back just now from one of the code enforcement folks, who says--in their words--"Prospect City asked Ms. McGrail to redesign her current plantings into a more attractive and organized layout with edged definitions to her plant beds and a more obvious ‘walking path’ in between with a more “lawn-like” appearance, using native and no-mowing options"

[gnosticgnoob]

What would help you most become a more politically conscious citizen?

To feel better re: politics, I need to feel better about people in general first

I need help wrapping my mind around where I fit exactly in the political machine

Conscious but inactive because I've no faith in Democracy, nor in any politician

I need it explained to me simply--I have little patience or attention, frankly

If I could learn this stuff without having to read much that'd be great

It's not that I'm cynical--I need help ID'ing legit information vs spin/agenda

I just kinda hate politics and I don't really know why

When I find myself in a chain-link cage held by armed men, I'll start to care

My neurodivergence is a major hurdle. I require special framing for engagement

Problems lower on my hierarchy of needs keep me from engaging politically

I need to figure out my worldview in general before I figure out my politics

Other

Voting ended onJul 18, 2025

[catrocketship]

fighting my personal feelings about dandelions ATM to draw this little illustration in the name of fighting lawn culture

[futurebird]

The latest video from "Crime Pays Botany Doesn't" is all about how grasslands fix carbon and the impressive root systems of perennial wild plants.

If you don't watch CPBD you should, it's your one stop show for all the botany you need to know!

[topdogslandscape]

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[cryptidcrew]

So I needed a metric fuckload of organic material to heap onto the areas of lawn I will be killing off to plant with natives in my new yard. And also I feel SO EXTREMELY STRONGLY about people removing vital vital so important leaves from their yard why would you deprive your soil of that free compost and why would you deprive all the bugs+other wildlife of cozy overwintering habitat!!! Assholes!!!

So. I went trick or treating at midnight the night before yard waste collection day. Got a couple. leaves.