The Furious Spinner

What a great idea! Foods Not Lawns. I heard about this on the online class I'm taking with Starhawk and others from all over the world. And it turns out the Food Not Lawns peeps are right here in my area, natch. I just love, love, love this idea. We did that with our backyard, although I never thought of it that way. But we plowed under the back lawn and put in a vegetable garden. (Which I haven't done anything with this year. Yikes!) Wouldn't it be great to walk down the street and see these gardens at every house? (Of course, you'd have to make sure that if your neighbors didn't do a garden lawn that they didn't spray or fertilize their lawn and get the pesticide cooties on yours—and you wouldn't want their lawn mower around your yard garden—unless they've got an electric one like ours. Gasoline boogers.) Founder Heather C. Flores has written a book about it, Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Lawn into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community.

I really love this idea.

P.S. I love the music when you go to her myspace page, but I can't figure out what it is because absolutely everything on myspace is unreadable. Okay, maybe not everything, but everything I've seen.

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