08/04/2024
I hate lawns. I’m not shy about it. They are blights to the eye. This cultural norm is stealing beautiful hours from our life, harming our health, Removing habitat for bees- which we need for pollenization, And just plain stupid once you think about it.
Maintaining them in perfect Green at a butch level requires pesticides, herbicides, and burning a whole bunch of gas in inefficient and excessive small particle pollutant producing two cycle engines.
If you want a lawn, get a true human powered, push reel-lawnmower, get a ton of exercise, get some sun, and let biodiversity and variety in what grows be celebrated!
Better yet turn your lawn into a garden! It has huge effect on your gut, micro biome. Lawns are one of our contributors to the epidemic of allergies, asthma and auto immunity. Good data shows that the gut Microbiome changes according to the environment we live in ….and a healthy soil supports a healthy gut Microbiome which supports a healthy immune system.
Inhalational-accelerated Alzheimer’s is real. We can poison ourselves by what we breathe in. The people who live closest to busy city streets have more Alzheimer’s disease. Individuals exposed to water damage buildings suffer tremendous cognitive decline, and brain atrophy the environment.
What We put our body into matters tremendously to our health. So please, grow a garden! Say goodbye to your lawn! Change your health-oppressive HOA regulations. And change your mindset about what beauty looks like. Wildflowers, butterflies, and a home environment that requires very little work to maintain is way more interesting, beautiful, and gives you more time back to enjoy these moments of life we’ve been given. :-)