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America's love affair with the lawn is getting messy
LeighAnn Ferrara is transforming her small suburban yard from grass bordered by a few shrubs into an anti-lawn — a patchwork of flower beds, vegetables and fruit trees. It didn’t happen all at once, says the mother of two young kids. “We started smothering small sections of the lawn each year with cardboard and mulch and planting them, and by now the front yard is probably three-quarters planting beds,” she says. “Every year we do more.”
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Most of the lawns in America are food deserts for wildlife...Where I used to live is a nature sanctuary and is replete with cottontails,birds,snakes,lizards ,two kinds of squirrels,and turtles..A friend has inherited the property friend lives there and makes sure all is well. There are brush piles,a huge grape vines,food for wildlife that meets with the Neuse river...Even the next doors neighbor is into it with his whole back yard full of clover,which looks like a white blanket going down to the river...I hate these golf course lawns with tons of poisons dumped on them. One neighbor has done this for years and two of her neighbors have cancer,which I suspect is due to living next to poison central...