Transform your lawn to become a haven for birds, bees, butterflies, and many other beneficial insects. Put an end to mowing grass which destroys habitat, wastes fossil fuel, and causes air and noise pollution.
This article, The Global War on Mess: How We’re Mowing Nature to Death, makes clear how much it costs both people and nature when we mow and make our yards "neat". A quote from the article:
Leaf piles. You call them untidy. Hedgehogs call them home. Old logs and sticks. You call them clutter. Frogs and beetles call them winter housing. Seed heads and dead stems. You call them “gone over.” Goldfinches call them dinner. Long grass. You call it lazy. Moths, caterpillars, butterflies and tiny ground-hunting birds call it survival. Every weekend, we proudly clear, cut and bag the very things that wildlife needs most in the cold months. Then we open social media and say, “No hedgehogs in my area anymore, so sad.” It’s not a mystery. We did it.
See the Information/Links menu above for many articles about how to tranform your lawn.
We can do so much better. The following are some before and after examples of what such transformations might look like.
The website, Food Not Lawns, has excellent ideas, examples, and resources. Below are a few of the Before-and-After photos from that site.
