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Nature needs agency (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, that's awesome, but I like doing stuff in my yard. And that means either some kind of plant resistant to bring repeatedly stepped on, or some form of stone or wood.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

You can have both. :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

🧠 💥 : retreating to caves and letting nature reclaim the earth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Return to Ocean, become single Cellular organism, bliss

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Voluntary human extinction, end the anthropocene

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I wish we could get away from lawns entirely. I understand a back garden a bit, but why do we need 20' of space between the house and sidewalk/road? We could fit a lot more houses in there if we didn't have a useless bunch of space. Like we could have manicured parks in a lot of spaces and then a bunch of fields or forested areas where it wasn't convenient to build homes for unusable green space.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, right now I'm shopping for a house with a decent sized property so I can grow a permaculture food forest to get fresh healthy veggies and fruit.

20' of lawn is like enough for two rows of fruit trees and berry bushes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but most people aren't trying to grow a food forest. It's unlikely you're shopping for a city or suburbia house, either. You probably want more land a bit farther out.

Also are you trying to grow fruit trees and food plants in your front yard? That's mostly what I have a problem with. Back yards/gardens make more sense for stuff like growing food, decks, pools, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But why would you want that in front of the house and not behind?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'd prefer it over just a grass yard or being right up on a road having to listen to road sounds at all hours

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The housing issue is not about space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Different housing issue. Separate from high costs or homelessness. Just about how neighborhoods and cities are designed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I think in a new community that would be perfectly feasible, but I can't see it working in existing neighborhoods without straight up tearing down a lot of homes first. (Or just throwing into a small house in every yard.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Let the weeds take over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Oh, ok

Ty