What an awful article. It completely ignores the ground truth of most suburban and urban environments -- in many places you can be heavily fined for not upkeepi

What an awful article. It completely ignores the ground truth of most suburban and urban environments -- in many places you can be heavily fined for not upkeeping a lawn. Even if we ignore that, the "numbers" don't prove themselves out for having anything but a lawn. I would never make back the time invested in growing anything agriculture related. Not only that, I would limit my kid's (already limited) space in which they could "run free" by having high grasses growing. I too have two small kids, I don't water, feed, or otherwise treat my lawn other then cutting it and still spend more then an hour per week with less than half and acre. Now the author wants me to invest time or money in agriculture that will never pay back and take more time out of my life? This is coming from someone who studied the advent of lawns both in an academic and professional setting.