What's Wrong With Lawns?

Consider your native habitat and the types of plants you'd find there if you didn't have a grass lawn.

Take a walk at a local park or arboretum, a nature trail, or hike through the woods. Check out the diversity of local plants which grow wild when allowed.

house with yard grass monocrop no biodiversity no native species
Not only are lawns horrible for biodiversity and water usage, they're also often extensively treated with chemicals and are downright hideous to boot

Some of these plants provide habitat for all manner of native animals.

Others are food sources for beneficial insects.

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Some are host plants for butterflies.

Supplemental chow for ladybugs.

Prime real estate for good bugs, pollinators, animals, fungi, and everything in between.

In a large enough swath of largely unaltered native land, you'll find a fully balanced ecosystem where everything can thrive harmoniously.

Compare this scene to a grass lawn.

It's a monocrop.

No diverse food sources for beneficials.



No habitat for animals.

Definitely not enough food for pollinators.

Lack of year-round blooms and frequent mowing scare most life away.

Chemical fertilizers kill off much of the underground microbiome life.

Grass lawns represent ecosystem dead-zones.

There's less balance, less diversity, and less life when you farm a monocrop than when you grow a garden of allow native plants to thrive. And lawns are possibly the dumbest of all monocrops you could grow.

Why Would You Want to Replace a Lawn?

Because lawns are totally wack and ruin the entire ecosystem. I know you're better than that, though. You're smarter than the average suburban inedible grass-farmer.

Is a Garden a Better Choice Than a Lawn?

Absolutely, and it's not even close.

Benefits of Replacing Your Lawn With a Garden

Literally everything will improve. Grow food, not lawns!

#foodnotlawns

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