Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: This is what your supermarket would look like if all the bees died off [View all]timdog44
(1,388 posts)are selling our 2 acre garden of eden. We have changed all lawn to at least 60% native plants, native tall prairie grasses, huge garden, and native perennials all over the place. No pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, no -cides at all. We always counted our success by the number of butterflies and bees of all kinds we had. We are fortunate to have been here for over 25 years. Time and my back have taken the toll and we have to leave. We cry, but we have to move on. Hopefully we can find a place with a small yard that we can do something with.
We live in the middle of Illinois farm land. GMO all over the place and Roundup in the farmers coffee. Weeds growing in their sterile fields becasue the Roundup no longer works. No bugs, bees, or birds. It is criminal how agriculture has evolved in America. The mantra of the farmer "we feed the world" is susch bullshit. We import almost as much as we export. All these massive farms have taken away from America a great and prideful way of life. And these guys like to call themselves farmers. Corn and bean manufacturing plants. And the people who own the farms don't know the difference between a kernel of corn and a shoat. Real farmers have their own animals out eating hay and grass in their fields, have their own gardens, chicken running around eating garden pests, and growing unperverted grains.