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Local Politician Tom LaBonge Wants LA Covered in Astroturf and the City to Pay For It

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Thoughtstylings
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Our local utility is offering residents a sizable rebate to remove lawns and replace them with less water intensive plantings and mulch. This makes long term sense in what appears to be a permanent, climate change related drought here in California. Unfortunately, Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge is pushing for the inclusion of artificial turf in that rebate program. He, apparently, has a vision of Los Angeles, as one big tawdry miniature...

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Mulch, mulch, mulch!

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Back to the Garden, Garden Design, Gardening, Permaculture, Soil
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...rary to popular belief, need a lawn. In fact, we all know they are hard on lawns. As far as kids go, a yard full of trees to climb, secret forts, chickens, flowers, vegetable patches and interesting critters and bugs might better lure them outside than a perfect lawn. I know many happy kids who live in such yards. And as a kid myself, I preferred such spaces. I have no fond memories of grass. I do have strong memories of playing in wilder spaces–u...

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Saturday Tweets: Marie Kondo, Vanilla Hummus and Composting People

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Saturday Linkages
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...XE via @Core77 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 13, 2019 The case against lawns https://t.co/t3ewxROgZl via @Curbed — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 13, 2019 Jews and Muslims, it is time we put our disagreements aside. This evil is too great, too evil. We must stand together against this, and see that in our demand for non-weird hummus, we can see each other’s shared heritage. Cousins, we need each other now more than ever. https://t.co/izVXdLl8...

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We are all gardeners

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Back to the Garden, Gardening, Thoughtstylings
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...plot. Every time we shop for food, every time we drive our cars or mow our lawns or choose where we’re going to live or just when settle down on the couch with our laptops, we are deciding what the world looks like. We choose to extract certain things from the natural world, and we choose to…er… supplement…our soil and our water with various substances. We choose what may and may not grow, when and where. We decide what may and may not crawl, cree...

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