Given the rising cost of food and petrol, as well as continued concern about food miles and food origins, it seems that the once-subversive idea of not having a lawn is far less controversial than it once was.
There’s a growing number of people who have decided to permanently get rid of their lawn and grow food instead. Here’s two books to get you started:
We’ve got plenty of books to help you on your way to growing your own food. Try a subject search for :
If community gardens are more your thing, check out:
- Local Food : how to make it happen in your community
- Growing a garden city – community gardening in Missoula, Montana
- A green granny’s garden : a year of the good life in Grey Lynn – Aucklander Fionna Hill documents her experiences as a beginner urban gardener in a communal environment.
27 July 2011 at 11:38 am
Love the idea of getting rid of the lawn. Mine has always been of a dubious nature anyway. I have never quite understood the need to fertilize and feed lawns, let alone mow them!
28 July 2011 at 12:08 pm
I know what you mean about trying to maintain a lawn. So perhaps digging it up for non-lawn alternatives is the perfect solution
27 July 2011 at 5:43 pm
I love this post!
Thanks for the reading list, too.
I am glad that people are showing this type of interest
28 July 2011 at 12:09 pm
Glad to help inspire you to perhaps dig up your lawn, or start a community garden with the reading ideas listed. Enjoy. If you do decide to dig up your lawn, then let us know how it went!
28 July 2011 at 9:56 am
When you have kids it is nice to give them grass to play on. I’d describe my house as having grass as distinct from lawn which I see as a more pampered beast.
But now the kids have left home I must admit my thoughts turn to raised vege beds and pea gravel. Not to mention the end to struggling to get the lawn mower started.
28 July 2011 at 12:12 pm
*lol* lawn vs. grass distinction – so very true. And glad to hear that the kids enjoyed the grass in days gone past, and now you get to enjoy the vegie patch instead.
28 December 2011 at 9:20 am
[...] course if I was really onto it I’d try a bit of op-shopping or turn my lawn into a vege garden. However for the former I’d need a bit of fashion flair, and for the latter I’m afraid I’d [...]