Hiding back behind the bushes, a lone gardener attempts the prohibited....
Seriously, no rules were broken, only bent...but even in the suburbs, small actions that we take can make a difference on an ecological level.
Do you have a lawn? Do you think lawns can be sustainable?
My video is at DLive
You can have my yard waste when you pry it from my cold dead ... compost pile.
Most weeds in my yard are healthier than the food in the store.
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Always a pleasure to hear from you my electric friend! I just found the plantsnap app on your most recent post! Would love to see some pictures of your healthy weeds c;
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I totally agree with you. When I lived with my parents for a time in my 20s, I declared one corner of their backyard as Compost Corner. Now, my dad was always very Front Lawn Treatment, lots of chemicals, curb appeal oriented ...but the backyard, no one could see, so he didn't care. It was a dry, desolate half dead lawn, with some trees and bushes along the fence. One of the trees even got CAR OIL dumped on it from the neighbor over the fence!! Even so, my parents were SO CONCERNED about my crazy hippie composting, that they'd get mice or some ish.
They never got mice. But to this day, that corner of yard, front or back, is the only lush, green, fertile place on the whole property. The grass grows like it is a weed, but it's Kentucky bluegrass, which struggles everywhere else no matter what chemicals Dad dumped on it or how much he watered. He never waters Compost Corner, but it grows and grows.
Did they take the lesson and now compost? No. The front lawn is still full of chemicals and the backyard is half dirt patch.
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AH! I know just the type of people that see and don't believe! Luckily my dad has converted and enjoys his ecological experimentation very much. I actually helped mow his lawn for the first time this year when I was up there, just so we could get back there and see what was going on!
Now in our little urban patch in Colombia, we did some compost and gardening, and we did once have a mouse. I think when we stirred the compost he found a new home though. Living things did come to participate, but we found that the long time we left between mixing/flipping, the larger the living things would get. If we mixed once a week they were mostly tiny bugs.
Life energies are the most powerful energies! It is definitely a rabbit hole, but even the basic concepts are very powerful, and I can only hope we are turning the tide and waking more people up to unplug from death energies and plug back into life energies.
Bless you!
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My apartment building (and neighborhood in general) has mice, but I never have had any. I have cats. I'm pretty sure on mice maps of the world, my apartment is a shadowy area that is labeled, "thar be dragons." Years ago when an outside cat peed on my doormat on the stoop, Maggie started peeing on the front door in retaliation. Maggie is a spayed ladycat, but she would back up and pee horizontally like an unneutered male spraying. It was a really odiferous time to be alive. It took months of various multi-pronged tactics to get her to stop. So, even though I cleaned it approximately 8,000 times, I'm sure to a mouse it's still All Sorts Of Cat Smells. I could probably leave food on the floor (and tbh, the cat dishes are on the floor) and I would never have mice. Maggie is my protector cat. XD
My compost is in sealed, nested buckets (with holes drilled in that are tiny) on the balcony, and really just smells like really rich soil! I keep adding to it or it would be finished by now, but ohhh man, it just smells nice.
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The only way a lawn is sustainable is if you use it to feed sheep or rabbits! It is silly in large urban centers the clippings can't be left on the lawns because it doesn't look aesthetically pleasing! Then the lawns need to be fertilized because they don't look healthy. Oh, and don't forget you need to spray for weeds such as dandelions. I compost everything here, no waste thrown away or hauled away to a dump.
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I think I am going to start a series here about being sneakily sustainable in the suburbs. In fact, that might be a good start to a title....
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