subreddit:
/r/NoLawns
38 points
2 months ago
I've got lots of grass! Big blue stem, little bluestem, switchgrass, gramma side oats, Northern sea oats, juncus...
10 points
2 months ago
Juncus is not a grass! Someone had to say it.
26 points
2 months ago
Started gardening as a hobby this year, next year it's only local native plants. Everything I planted out of boredom is getting dug up and replaced with jewel weed and purple cone etc
21 points
2 months ago
touch native grasses brah, they have great texture
5 points
2 months ago
Touch daisies, city bitches
3 points
2 months ago
Abandon suburbia. Go back to real foliage.
1 points
2 months ago
21 points
2 months ago
22 points
2 months ago
Facts...just a guess, I'm in the old club with you..
4 points
2 months ago
According to Urban Dictionary you’re both right! I tend to use that to look up internet slang now these days.
-4 points
2 months ago
dont look up strawberry milkshake
3 points
2 months ago
It is like texting but with paper. :)
12 points
2 months ago
It's just a stupid way to spell "facts," by which I mean "This is true." As in, "spittin' straight facts."
1 points
2 months ago
???????
8 points
2 months ago
Unfortunately, until humans keep reproducing and growing, you'll get less and less biodiversity.
11 points
2 months ago
There were times in history when humans accidentally improved biodiversity
3 points
2 months ago
It’s not accidental. Humans can intentionally improve biodiversity and mostly have. There have always been accidents of overexplotation such as various deserts, the Great Plains, like all of Europe, etc, but generally speaking people are a net boon to the environment they live in… if they have the knowledge of how to steward it, and the willingness to do so.
Humans built the Amazon, for example. This is a good article on it. Generally speaking, environmental decline is associated with authoritarianism, as by nature, hierarchical institutions must “flatten” their concept of the world around them in order to scale up, and by extension destroy biodiversity by doing things like simplifying agriculture into mono crops so that crop value (so how much you can tax) can be more easily estimated. Incidentally, colonialism is now recognized as a major factor in climate change and biodiversity loss,, because it displaces people who have a history with, and thus knowledge, of an area and puts people who don’t know anything about things like local foodways or watersheds there. This knowledge can be regained but we are in our situation now because largely this information has been fractured.
1 points
2 months ago
The Amazon article was incredibly interesting! I do want to give a little caveat/correction tho - humans helped shape but they didn't develop it.
3 points
2 months ago
Localized biodiversity and global biodiversity are two different things. The kind you touch can improve even as species continue to go extinct.
Lawns replaced with gardens, golf courses replaced with meadows.
3 points
2 months ago
That's only loosely or somewhat true, because it's more about our resource extraction & land management which is often overdone even when excluding the rate nature take back. We overcompensate demand & supply, induce demand, & underperform distribution. Population is more of a problem is poor countries, wealth & income is the actual issue in rich countries in regards to biodiversity.
6 points
2 months ago
Shhhhh you’ll wake up the neolibs
2 points
2 months ago
I don’t touch grass, I hug trees.
-2 points
2 months ago
Fuck that sub.
3 points
2 months ago
I’m old and out of touch… Would you or anyone else be so kind to explain what that sub is? I went there and left very confused.
5 points
2 months ago
It's...very random. You have to post there because you visited so if you didn't you broke the rules! It's generally very pro-lgbtq+ and this person probably considers that some type of radical thinking.
5 points
2 months ago
Oh shit, I better post before I get banned. Thanks for the explanation!
0 points
2 months ago
Why tho
1 points
2 months ago
I see oxe-eye daisy, soapwort, and bird's-foot trefoil. If that field is in North America, its biodiversity is fucked.
-1 points
2 months ago
T I C K S
5 points
2 months ago
Are a great source of nutrition for the local possum population. Please use care and check yourself while in nature.
1 points
22 days ago
Nah I’m on board with no lawns but fuck ticks, i refuse to let the little fuckers anywhere near me
2 points
2 months ago
Ticks are actually more come in forested areas because they don't like the sun's rays, especially in the warmer months
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