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Environment & Energy

hunter

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12. We took out our lawn more than twenty years ago...

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Sat Aug 27, 2022, 12:57 PM

Aug 2022

... and many of the neighbors thought we were freaks.

The city and the water company are now actively encouraging people to remove their lawns.

Most of the lawns in our neighborhood are gone now or turned brown.

Partly it's because water costs more now. People don't want to spend a few hundred dollars a month keeping their lawns green.

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kill your lawn. [View all] mopinko Aug 2022 OP

I did that about 10 years ago. Ocelot II Aug 2022 #1

it's funny. mopinko Aug 2022 #2

2/3 perennials, shrubs, rock around the foundation and vegetable garden. Each yr I add something PortTack Aug 2022 #3

I converted a two house lot... 2naSalit Aug 2022 #8

there's evidence for that. mopinko Aug 2022 #9

my mother and I planted or rescued several hundred seedlings Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #4

i want pecans, mopinko Aug 2022 #6

Hybrid poplar for starter trees if not close Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #7

i have a tulip poplar, but i need food. mopinko Aug 2022 #10

Buckthorn is a major enemy of Wisconsin forests Tetrachloride Aug 2022 #5

that's why you need goats. mopinko Aug 2022 #11

We took out our lawn more than twenty years ago... hunter Aug 2022 #12

the lawns around here are only green a few months a year unless mopinko Aug 2022 #13