Comments on: Food Not Lawns

By: Whole Foods or Whole Farce? | Love and Trash, a DIY blog for people who do things differently.

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:50:51 +0000

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By: How to Grow a Prairie in Suburbia

How to Grow a Prairie in Suburbia — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:04:46 +0000

[...] adding native plant species into your landscape and using your lot to grow food, you can turn the traditional, over-fertilized suburban lawn into something that’s beautiful [...]

By: Father Mayhem

Father Mayhem — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:15:12 +0000

Oh hey, anything is better than nothing! Besides, the cats of the world appreciate you big time – even if they don’t know it.

By: Free Love Friday: Spread the Love

Free Love Friday: Spread the Love — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:05:56 +0000

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By: RaggedayAnnarchy

RaggedayAnnarchy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:39:07 +0000

I’m in.
So far, I’m only growing my own mint and garlic. And catnip. But it’s a start.

By: Father Mayhem

Father Mayhem — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:05:03 +0000

Here is an excellent post on the International Food Not Lawns website entitled:
“How to Start a Local Food Not Lawns”
http://www.foodnotlawns.net/2008/12/how-to-start-local-food-not-lawns.html

By: Father Mayhem

Father Mayhem — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:36:39 +0000

On another train of thought – awhile back, I was shopping some auction vehicles and I was looking at Chevy Cavaliers. There were both a 1992 and a 2003 model year Cavalier coming up for auction and researching the two cars revealed that there was only a 2 or 3 MPG improvement in TEN YEARS of engineering. I was aghast. I simply do not believe that this is possible – it was intended, not forced due to the inability to improve the technology.

So then I think of Monsanto, wanting to sell ALL of the seed for ALL of the food we eat and I have a hard time thinking that they will conduct themselves any better than BP, the Financial Industry or the auto manufacturers who are only now making more fuel efficient cars because they HAVE TO to sell more of ‘em.

So what am I saying? Start a seed bank and keep it locked up. Grow as much of your own food as you can manage. The only vote that matters is the one we cast with our dollars.

By: Father Mayhem

Father Mayhem — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:35:33 +0000

There is SO much we could do with dwellings besides make ‘em look pretty with trademark lab developed blades of something resembling grasses.

I once saw a house that had a huge boulder on the South side that gathered heat all day to keep the house warm with at night. They’d even hose the thing down now and then so the slight breeze could create a cooling effect as the water vaporized.

By: pissyrabbit

pissyrabbit — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:54:23 +0000

I have been talking about this for a few days now because we are starting to come up with plans for our yard and i do not want grass at all. I would rather deck the whole thing than to have to waste water on grass.
YAY!

By: magikspells

magikspells — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:11:45 +0000

sweet! awesome idea! Local communities could have way more food if we turned ornamental lawns into food gardens. But no, the best ornamental lawn competition continues. In the LA desert, the richies sport lavish tropical lawns that would NEVER grow naturally in socal climate. Total waste of resources.