We Should Ban Front Lawns.

And replace them with gardens.

http://www.americansavannah.com/

The History of Lawns:
http://www.organiclawncare101.com/history.html
http://www.american-lawns.com/history/history_lawn.html

Empty lot turned into a flourishing community garden:
http://www2.tbo.com/video/2010/mar/31/empty-lot-turned-into-a-flourishing-com...

"Guerrilla gardeners" sprucing up London by night:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63D3E220100414?type=lifestyleMolt

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[AbdielAbiram]

i have the worst possible lawn in the hstiry of the world. I have no grass AT ALL. Its mostly those blue things, those yellow weeds, those weeds that if you blow on them them explode with those little things. And lots of those three leaf clover things. And a bunch of crab grass...I thought its share this

[PapistWitness]

@AbdielAbiram

That's a heartwarming bedtime story, A.A.

[nuduaspiaggia]

Very good! I'll be graduating with a BA in medieval and Renaissance studies (as well as Spanish) in May. Interestingly enough, royalty and nobility during the medieval period were more interested in enclosing their property, thus the invention of the hedge. Later, as you mentioned, lawns became more popular among these classes, though not uniformly throughout Western Europe. Northern Spain, for example, still retains a preference for gardens.

[PapistWitness]

@nuduaspiaggia

"Northern Spain, for example, still retains a preference for gardens."

Northern Spain, I suspect, also retains a lot of the Catholic ethos.

[SeptemberCatholic18]

I thought about this video while I was mowing the lawn. I felt like a tyrant the whole way. Thank a lot.

[danielzero]

I agree with this video. I currently live with my dad, and he expends lots of time and resources upkeeping his lawn. When I was growing up, I lived in the hill country with my mom. The area around our house was essentially miles and miles of forested hills. It was much more pleasing to the eyes and was a natural feature that required almost no upkeep. Gardens would provide more of a variety of flora that would be less hard on the soil and more aesthetically pleasing I believe.

[empacae]

@PapistWitness I've heard McD's brew a fine cup of coffee. My front lawn is pretty crappy too. I have 100 year old trees there. The grass is under shade constantly, I would love to plow it up and plant a vegetable garden, but not allowed. My back yard is on a horrendous hill and takes me the better part of a day on a tractor to mow.

[PapistWitness]

@empacae

As far as big corporate coffee goes, I have to say, McDonalds takes the cake. Also their lids are VASTLY superior to anyone else's.

[empacae]

Though I'm all for each person with a house have a couple of sheep to keep the lawn mowed too. Then have a guy come in and shear them evry couple of months (the sheep that is).

Yech!  The crappiest coffee, you'd be better off with Folders or Max House. Tim's = EVIL

[empacae]

Most town ordinances and by laws forbid gardens (food production), but will allow ornamental gardens (flowers and such) I'm all for a mix of both, but then where would my dog go duty? lol

[kdurston1]

@nunfonseca and i'm supposed to take Chesterton as an authority on economics? you don't find him rather romantic... like Marx. I'm very skeptical of distributism as I find the language slips into socialism too easily.

[nunfonseca]

@kdurston1 Yes, it is. For the same reason Chesterton said it was.