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Stop growing grass, plant bushes, and clover. Don't use gasoline lawnmowers. Lawns are very silly things. If you don't care about energy costs, you could put
by mymythisisthis 8y ago
Stop growing grass, plant bushes, and clover. Don't use gasoline lawnmowers. Lawns are very silly things.
If you don't care about energy costs, you could put a hotwater system under your driveway, I've seen a few of these now.
I think one major issue is getting people from the city to the farms during harvest time. It's a problem of coordination and transport.
- ph0rque 8y agoOh I know. I have a food forest, and aquaponics system, and some fence gardens. But I can't get rid of the grass (yet) because of the HOA (I did plant clover in it). I'm just saying this would be a good space to start, if the robotics dev economics made sense: the market is there.
- oh_sigh 8y agoNice how it is always other people's things that are silly. Lawns are silly in places like Las Vegas, but maybe not particularly silly in a place like Michigan or New Jersey.
- abakker 8y agoYeah, I mean, in CT ours grew whether we wanted it or not. the choice was grass or trees, and its not great when trees grow literally right up to your house. if you wanted a buffer it either had to paved, gravel, or grass.
- swish_bob 8y agoAnd paving in places with a lot of precipitation has some unpleasant side-effects.
- Johnny555 8y agoMy parents' NJ lawn needs a lot of maintenance -- they use a lawn service that mows the law every 7 - 10 days, fertilizes a few times a year, maintains the sprinklers, does some kind of regular weed control, and took care of a mole problem last summer. Still seems silly.
- njarboe 8y agoLaws might seem to need a lot of maintenance, but unless you live in a desert and have the native vegetation that hardly grows(cactus, yucca, and mesquite like bushes), any landscaping besides a field of rocks will likely require more maintenance. You could let your yard go back to the wild and that would be cool by me, but where I live people who replace their lawn go with mix of bushes, flowers, and trees with paths and other landscape features that require a lot more man hours in pruning, trimming, leafblowing, etc to keep looking good.
- Johnny555 8y agoI don't live in the dessert, during the drought a couple years ago, our HOA replaced the lawn areas with some sort of low maintenance native bushes and flowers along with some sort of native grass that doesn't need to be cut. So now instead of a weekly visit by a landscape crew of 3 to cut and maintain the lawn, we have a bi-weekly visit by a single person to do some light weeding and raking.
- njarboe 8y agoIf you do it right, it can work out well. I just don't seem to see that in the East Bay where I live. I do my own gardening and cutting grass is easy. Pruning bushes and shrubs is a lot more time consuming per square foot in my experience but I would only mow once a month.